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Emily Dickinson is an American poet born in 1830 in Massachusetts. She has lived her life in solitude, and hardly had let any visitors or friends meet her. It was only after her death her poems were discovered, and were published. Her poems did not have any kind of titles to it; hence the first… Continue reading I Started Early Took My Dog Poem Summary by Emily Dickinson

This poem analysis of ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ is divided into three parts – context, rhyme scheme and rhetorical devices, and deeper meaning. In the absence of any one of these, this poem explanation would be incomplete. Context: ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ was written by Plath while she was still at Smith College, and before… Continue reading Mad Girl’s Love Song Analysis by Sylvia Plath

This poem summary focuses on the poem ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ by the confessional poet Sylvia Plath. Before looking at the content of the poem, one must look at its title though. ‘Mad’ is here used to mean both mentally unstable, and angry. The fact that Plath characterizes herself as a ‘mad girl’ shows that… Continue reading Summary of Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Keats claimed not to care for his most critically neglected long romance, Isabella; Or, The Pot of Basil (1818), calling the poem “mawkish,” “weaksided, with “an amusing sober-sadness about it.” He tried to dismiss the poem as “too smokeable” and worried that there was “too much inexperience of life, and simplicity of knowledge in it.”… Continue reading Isabella Or The Pot of Basil Analysis by John Keats

Born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, John Keats, English Romantic poet, devoted his short life to the perfection of poetry marked by vivid imagery, great sensuous appeal and an attempt to express a philosophy through classical legend. In 1818 he went on a walking tour in the Lake District. His exposure and overexertion… Continue reading Summary of Isabella Or The Pot of Basil by John Keats

This poem summary focuses on Sylvia Plath’s apparently simple poem about a blackberry picking expedition known as ‘Blackberrying’. However, like all of Plath’s poetry, this poem too has a deeper layer of meaning that reveals much about her mental state, in the very mode of confessional poetry. This poem is composed of three stanzas. Each… Continue reading Blackberrying Summary by Sylvia Plath

Blackberrying: Analysis This poem analysis is divided into three parts – context, rhyme scheme and rhetorical devices, and themes. Blackberrying: Context This part of the poem’s explanation is absolutely indispensable to the construction of its meaning. Being a confessional poet, Plath’s poetry always reflects what phase of life she is going through at the moment.… Continue reading Blackberrying: Analysis

This poem summary focuses on the poem ‘Lorelei’ by Sylvia Plath. This poem combines the confessional style of Plath with a myth of German origin, that of the water spirit called Lorelei who lures sailors with her breathtaking beauty and her enchanting voice, leading them to the perils of the rocky reefs of the Rhine.… Continue reading Summary of Lorelei by Sylvia Plath

This poem analysis is divided into three parts – context, rhyme scheme, and symbolism. Context: ‘Lorelei’ was written by Sylvia Plath as a part of the collection of poems entitled The Colossus and Other Poems which was published in the year 1960. Many of the poems in this collection refer to myths drawn from various… Continue reading Analysis of ‘Lorelei’ by Sylvia Plath

This poem summary focuses on the poem ‘On the Pulse of Morning’ by the African-American woman poet Maya Angelou, who despite being African-American, speaks for all citizens of America, no matter what colour they are or what creed they belong to. The poem itself is divided into twenty-eight identifiable stanzas, with single lines occurring between… Continue reading Summary of On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou