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About the Poet – Robert Louis Stevenson was a novelist and a poet born in Edinburgh. He was never a healthy person as a child and often remained sick. He began studying engineering in the Edinburgh University, but he soon switched to law leaving engineering in the middle. However, he had always loved writing. For several… Continue reading Summary of My Shadow By Robert Louis Stevenson: 2022
Critical Analysis of The Man he Killed The poem is a direct attack on the glorification of war. There was always a certain glory added to war, and martyrdom was deified. Hardy, along with other war poets who came after Hardy, like Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, tried to concentrate on the negative aspects… Continue reading Critical Analysis of The Man he Killed by Thomas Hardy: 2022
Summary of The Man He Killed Stanza 1 Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have set us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! The speaker begins by talking about an unnamed man. We are not told who he is right away. We are introduced to him as… Continue reading Summary of The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy: 2022
About the Poet – Thomas Hardy (June 2, 1840- January 11, 1928) was an English novelist and poet. Although he is considered a Victorian writer, he was influenced by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth and Charles Dickens. He was born to a stonemason (also Thomas Hardy) and Jemima Hand. It was due to his mother, Hardy… Continue reading Line by Line Meaning of The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy: 2022
The tone of this poem is contrary to what has led the poet to pen his thoughts here. Television: Critical Analysis Dahl is a man who lived through a period of a great many inventions, including that of television. However, he is not excited by this so-called progress and development of the human race. He… Continue reading Television: Critical Analysis
Summary of Television ‘Television’ consists of a total of 94 lines. These lines are not separated into stanzas. Here they are divided into meaningful segments for ease of comprehension. Lines 1-6: The most important thing we’ve learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set — Or… Continue reading Summary of Television by Roald Dahl
About the Poet – Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of acting wing commander. He rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both… Continue reading Line by Line Meaning of Television by Roald Dahl
Critical Analysis of A Noiseless Patient Spider The poem can be read in a number of ways resulting in a number of interpretations. However, this is not what is unique to this poem. What is unique to this poem is its overlapping levels and literary devices. The poem is at once a poem describing… Continue reading Critical Analysis of A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
About the Poet – Walt Whitman (31 May 1819- March 26 1892), born Walter Whitman, was an American poet and essayist who also dabbled in journalism. He achieved immense fame after the publication of his poetry collection, Leaves of Grass, in 1855. Having worked as a printer’s devil, he had self-published his poetry collection and kept… Continue reading Summary of A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
Though the poem has a very personal edge to it, Do Not Go Gentle In to That Good Night by Dylan Thomas, is a poem that is applicable to every single human being. It addresses one of the most macabre, yet inevitable truths of life, death. Man’s usual approach towards life is to go with… Continue reading Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Analysis
