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About the poet: Nissim Ezekiel is known as the father of post-independence Indian-English verse. He is the one who started modernity in Indian-English poetry. His simple, conversational style has influenced many later Indian English poets. Poet, dramatist, editor, as well as art-critic, Nissim Ezekiel was born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai. His father, Moses… Continue reading Summary of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel: 2022

Mending Wall: Analysis Most of Frost’s poems are simple at the surface and have a deeper layer of meaning beneath. “Mending Wall” is no exception. While the poet seems to be relating a simple tale of rebuilding a broken wall between the lands of two farmers, he is talking about a much larger and more… Continue reading Mending Wall: Analysis: 2022

Robert Frost was born on 26th March 1874 in San Francisco. After his father’s death from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years and eventually enrolled at Dartmouth College and later at… Continue reading Mending Wall Summary Line by Line (2023 Update)

Enterprise: Analysis Every single element that the pilgrims encountered on their journey in this poem symbolizes something else. The sun symbolizations all the obstacles put up by nature in man’s path. The desert symbolizes all the issues because man discriminates against others of his kind, especially religious differences. The shadow that falls on the pilgrims… Continue reading Enterprise: Analysis: 2022

About the poet: Nissim Ezekiel is known as the father of post-independence Indian-English verse. He is the one who started modernity in Indian-English poetry. His simple, conversational style has influenced many later Indian English poets. Poet, dramatist, editor, as well as art-critic, Nissim Ezekiel was born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai. The Ezekiels belonged… Continue reading Summary of Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel: 2022

The poem On the Grasshopper and Cricket is a sonnet by John Keats. The poem was composed in the December of 1816 when the poet was twenty-one years of age. It was published posthumously in ‘The Poetical Works of John Keats’ in 1884. Central Idea of On the Grasshopper and Cricket: The central idea of the poem is… Continue reading Central Idea and Theme of On the Grasshopper and Cricket by Keats: 2023

About the Poet: John Keats (1795–1821) was one of the leading figures in the second-generation Romantic poets. Born in London, he was the son of Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings. Thomas Keats was an ostler who married the daughter of his master, from whom he inherited the business. Keats’s family was of a humble heritage,… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of On the Grasshopper and Cricket by Keats: 2023

Stanza-wise Summary of A Small pain in my Chest: 1st stanza: The narrator sees a soldier sitting ‘calmly’ underneath a tree. The poet uses the word ‘soldier boy’ to highlight that the soldier was still in the formative years of life. His boyhood had not completely left him and hence he was clearly too young… Continue reading Summary of A Small pain in my Chest by Michael Mack: 2022

About the Poet: Michael Mack is a renowned poet, playwright, and performer. His stint in the U.S. air force as an aircraft crew chief gave him a lot of fodder for his poetry. Mack tried his hands at a variety of factory and labor jobs before he resumed his education again at MIT and graduated… Continue reading A Short Introduction to A Small pain in my Chest by Michael Mack: 2022

Figures based on similarity: Simile: An explicit comparison made between two allied things or ideas. Example: She is red as a rose. In this sentence comparison is made between two unallied objects, she and rose and the point of similarity between them which is the color red; is made by the word as. Metaphor: An… Continue reading Rhetoric in English Language: 2022