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A Word to Husbands by Ogden Nash is a short and funny poem but it consists of a very serious message. Nash clearly understands and explains the problem that most of the unsuccessful marriages face today; unnecessary argument. Analysis of ‘A Word to Husbands’ by Ogden Nash According to Nash, “Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;… Continue reading Analysis of ‘A Word to Husbands’ by Ogden Nash: 2022

David Berman was born January 4, 1967, in Williamsburg, Virginia. He attended high school at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, before matriculating at the University of Virginia. While in Charlottesville, Virginia, Berman began writing and performing songs (often left on friends’ voice message machines) with his loose band, Ectoslavia, primarily composed of UVA classmates Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich. Snow by David Berman Analysis David… Continue reading Snow by David Berman Analysis: 2022

“The Oxen” is a poem by the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. It relates to a West Country legend: that, on the anniversary of Christ’s Nativity, each Christmas Day, farm animals kneel in their stalls in homage. It was first published in December 1915, in the London newspaper The Times The Oxen Thomas Hardy… Continue reading Analysis of ‘The Oxen’ by Thomas Hardy: 2022

“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” is a subtle poem, which philosophizes about some very complex allusions. The art of reading poetry, human consciousness, morality, and peoples’ distractions and indifference in a beautiful, chaotic world are to name a few. Multiple readings might also be permissible due to the poem’s confrontations with uncertain thoughts and… Continue reading Analysis of ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’: 2022

Kingsolver in his poem “Naming Myself”, speaks about his ancestors and his family name. He explains how his grandfather came from Virginia during the time of slavery, and the Native American side of their heritage has been buried, and his newfound desire to uncover that part of their identity. He explains how even if he… Continue reading Analysis of ‘Naming Myself’ by Barbara Kingsolver: 2022

It was during the First World War that Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian Lieutenant wrote the poem” In Flanders Field”. It is basically a war poem written on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of a friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. This poem… Continue reading Analysis of ‘In Flanders Fields’ by John McCrae: 2022

The Hunting of The Snark Poem belongs to the family of narratives called romance quest: A band of comrades sets out on a journey into a perilous domain on a quest for something of value. Often the exact nature of the object of the quest is a mystery. In the perilous domain, the comrades encounter… Continue reading ‘The Hunting of the Snark’- Summary and Analysis: 2022

The Dry Salvages by TS Eliot is the third poem of poet’s set of four poems. The poem was written in 1941 when his lectures were threatened by air raids on Great Britain. The poem discusses the nature of time and what humanity’s place is on time. Analysis of ‘The Dry Salvages’ by T.S. Eliot… Continue reading Analysis of ‘The Dry Salvages’ by T.S. Eliot: 2022

The poem, “The Dying Christian to His Soul”, is a poem, which puts light on the speaker at the time of his death. Across many cultures and generations, people have been preoccupied with death. People fear it, and so they think of it often. According to Pope, it is the Christian faith that gives us the… Continue reading Analysis of ‘The Dying Christian to His Soul’ by Alexander Pope: 2022

This poem And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time is written by William Blake.  It forms a part of the lengthier work ‘Milton a Poem’ published in 1804. It became more popularly known as ‘Jerusalem’ when it was set to music by Sir Hubert Parry during the First World War in 1916. The musical form… Continue reading And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time Analysi: 2022