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Critical Analysis of The Arrow and the Song: The poem received wide range criticism. The arrow and the Song originated with the poet but are still things that are controlled by physical phenomena and are expected a return. He is talking about things and expectancies. It needed not have been an arrow, for example, thinks of… Continue reading Critical Analysis of The Arrow and the Song by H. W. Longfellow: 2022

About the Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an imperious figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America. Born in Portland, Maine in 1807, he became a national literary character by the 1850s and a world-famous personality by the time of his death in 1882. He was a traveler, a linguist, and a romantic who acknowledged… Continue reading Summary of The Arrow and the Song by H. W. Longfellow: 2022

Solved Questions of Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers: 1. What is the poet’s concept of marriage? According to the poet, Marriage is unequal due to male domination and inequality. The woman at the center of the poem, Aunt Jennifer, is an anxious and fearful wife. She lacks inner conviction or certainty, unlike the tigers she portrays. Aunt Jennifer… Continue reading Solved Question of Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich: 2022

About the Poet: One of America’s leading public philosophers, Adrienne Rich, was a poet, essayist, and feminist. She was called one of the most extensively read and powerful poets of the second half of the 20th century. Extensively read and enormously influential, Rich’s career spanned seven decades and has chopped closely to the story of… Continue reading Summary and Meaning of Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich: 2022

  Solved Questions of A Thing of Beauty: 1. How is a thing of beauty a joy forever? A thing is said to be a ‘thing of beauty,’ for the reason that it is a source of joy forever. When we think of it we should be happy and in its absence too, it should fill… Continue reading Solved Questions of A Thing of Beauty by Keats: 2022

About the Poet: John Keats, one of the supreme English poets and a major figure in the Romantic Movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London.  His initial endeavors at writing poetry date from about 1814, and include an imitation of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser.  He died at the age of twenty-five and had… Continue reading Summary and Meaning of A Thing of Beauty by Keats: 2022

The Night of the Scorpion: Summary First stanza:The poem started with the reminiscence of a terrible event in the childhood of the poet when his mother was stung by a scorpion. This incident, in retrospect, brings forth the poet’s gall of criticism against the irrationality of the average uneducated person. The poet brings out the… Continue reading The Night of the Scorpion: Summary: 2022

The poem was anthologized in Collected Poems (1952 – 1988). It is one of the first poems of Ezekiel and presents a scary picture of the superstition ridden India where an insect is given monstrous dimensions. It carries Ezekiel’s stingiest of satires against the many maladies that affect the Indian society. Not to mention it… Continue reading A Short Introduction and Meaning of The Night of the Scorpion: 2022

Critical analysis of The Last Ride Together: This poem is witness to the fact that the outstanding thing about Browning as an artist the variety and originality of his poetic forms. Browning may be described as “the father of modern experimental verse.” It is Browning’s love of realism which makes him give a hearing even to a… Continue reading Critical Analysis and Meaning of The Last Ride Together: 2022

About the poet: Robert Browning (1812-1889) was born at Camberwell to a banker father. He was not taught in a very traditional manner and was allowed to follow his lifelong passion to study unusual subjects. He wrote his first poem at the tender age of 12. He was very much influenced by Shelley. His first… Continue reading Stanza-wise Summary of The Last Ride Together by Browning: 2022