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Loss of Faith in God and Religion – Arnold follows the Romantic legacy of pensive melancholy located in the Victorian era of the waning of faith in God and religion and the frustration that follows. The strong religious and spiritual faith of earlier times was beginning to vanish with the advent of science and technology… Continue reading Themes: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold: 2022

“The Gift of India” is a tribute to the Indian soldiers who gave up their lives in several battles to honor their country’s pride. This is a poem in which Mother India speaks of the loyalty, strength, and devotion of her beloved children whom she sent to fight in foreign lands. Through this poem, the… Continue reading The Gift of India: Figures of Speech and Central Idea: 2022

Stanza 1 – The poem The Spider and The Fly opens with a dialogue between a predator (the spider) and a prey (the fly). In the first stanza, we observe the spider alluring the fly to his ‘parlour’. He tries to entice the fly by saying that he has ‘many pretty things’ to show her… Continue reading The Spider and The Fly Summary by Mary Howitt: 2022

“The spider and the fly” reveals the story of a cunning spider that allures a naive fly with his devious words and finally makes her fall into his trap. The Spider and The Fly: Analysis The spider tries to convince the fly to step into his home. He tries to entice her with the promise… Continue reading The Spider and The Fly: Analysis: 2023

The most anthologized poem of Robert Frost was probably written in 1913-1914, but it was first appeared in 1915 in Atlantic Monthly in the August issue and was later collected in Frost’s third book Mountain Interval (1916). He was perhaps inspired by another not-so-famous American poet Lucy Larcom’s poem “Swinging on a Birch tree.” Frost once said, “it was… Continue reading Birches: Summary: 2022

Written in conversational language, the birches poem constantly moves from reverie to reflection, truth and imagination, earth and heaven, concrete and spirit, control and abandon and flight and return. In the first section of the poem, he gives us the possible explanations for the bending of the birch trees. Then he goes on to describe… Continue reading Analysis of Birches by Robert Frost: 2022

The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu: Themes 1. Patriotism- The theme of patriotism is the most evident theme in the poem. This theme of patriotism for the motherland runs in a lot of other poems by Sarojini Naidu. This poem is a tribute to the martyred Indian soldiers who gave up their lives in… Continue reading The Gift of India Theme and Tone by Sarojini Naidu: 2022

“We Are the music makers” is an ode by the British poet of Irish descent, Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy. He was born in London on March 14, 1844. O’Shaughnessy was deeply influenced by French poetry, by the Pre-Raphaelite group, and by Charles Swinburne. His first published collection of poetry was called “Epic of Women” (1870),… Continue reading We are The Music Makers Summary Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy: 2023

This ode by the British poet of Irish descent, Arthur O’Shaughnessy, is one of the oldest forms of poetry and is a celebratory expression of art. “We are the music makers” is the first poem from O’Shaughnessy’s collection called “Music and Moonlight” (1874). Arthur O’Shaughnessy dedicates this poem to the artists- the writers, the poets,… Continue reading We Are The Music Makers Analysis by Arthur O’Shaughnessy: 2023

Youth The poem is full of allusions to the childhood experiences of the poet-cum-narrator and the imagined boys. The poet seems weary of this world and wants to return to his childhood once again leaving behind the responsibilities, duties, drudgeries of the day to day existence. This is a common theme in the poems of… Continue reading Birches: Theme, Tone, and Figure of Speech: 2022