‘The Eve of Waterloo’ by Lord Byron is a narrative poem, exciting as well as full of pathos. The poem is based on a true incident that happened just before the Battle o Waterloo. The battle took place in June 1815 in Waterloo, a village about 11 miles from Brussels where the Duke of Wellington… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Eve of Waterloo by Lord Byron
‘Men build too many walls and not enough bridges’ -Isaac Newton. The poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost presents his ideas of barriers between people, communication, friendship and the sense of safety that people acquire from building barriers. Summary of Mending Wall by Robert Frost Lines 1-9: The narrator expresses his wonder about a phenomenon, through… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Nissim Ezekiel is one of the prolific Indian writers in English of the 20th century. He was playwright, editor, critic and poet. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his Poetry collection, ‘Latter-Day Psalms. He was also awarded the Padma Shree by the Government of India in 1988. He is often called the “Father… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of the Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel
The Man who Dreamed of Fairyland by William Butler Yeats is a story of a man who tried to escape from the world of reality to a world of imagination. This poem was included in the volume of poems called The Rose which was published in the year 1893. The poem has a romantic characteristic,… Continue reading Analysis of The Man who Dreamed of Fairyland by W.B Yeats
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen is one of the powerful poems of William Butler Yeats, precisely painting the picture of the Irish Civil War which took place during the twentieth century. Yeats wrote a few poems which had violence as a theme. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen is one of them. It not only depicts the situation… Continue reading Analysis of Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen by W. B Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, a dreamer, and a visionary fascinated by folklore, ballads, and superstitions about the Irish peasantry. His poetry has a Celtic flavour mixed with mysticism and melancholy. His aim in writing poetry was to make the world conscious of the beauties of Celtic literature. As he grew older, he… Continue reading The Stolen Child: Analysis
Small Pain in My Chest by Michael Mack was read over to 5000 people, at the funeral of the first Blackhawk helicopter pilot, who was shot down in Iraq. It is also read at the Vietnam Veterans meetings. The poem shows the pain suffered by the soldiers in a war. It also portrays the human… Continue reading Analysis of Small Pain in My Chest by Michael Mack
The title of A Psalm of Life is an appropriate one. A psalm is an invocation to mankind to follow the path of the righteousness. Here, the speaker advises people to be heroes in their lives. He asks them to lie in the present, without thinking about the past or the future. A poem teaching… Continue reading Analysis of A Psalm of Life by H.W Longfellow
Robert Southey’s The Inchcape Rock is based on the legendary story of a reef off the east coast of Scotland. STYLE: The Inchcape Rock is written in the form of a ballad interwoven with a number of poetical devices to convey a moral lesson- ‘As you sow, so shall you reap.’ A ballad is a… Continue reading Analysis of The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey
I Believe is a poem by a Garo poet, Brucellish K Sangma. It is a translation from the original Garo poem, Anga Bebera’a into English by the same poet. She is one of the eminent poets among the Garo women poets. She often translates her own poems from one language to another. Suggested Reading: Detailed… Continue reading Analysis of I Believe by Brucellish K Sangma
