Category: ICSE Poems
Summary and Solved Questions of Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell
27Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) is remarkable for his sentimental poetry. Most of his poems deal with common human problems. Poem in Brief: “Lord Ullin’s Daughter” is a ballad ...
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Summary and Analysis of Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
13Wilfred Owen served as a Lieutenant in the British army during the First World War, ironically he was killed shortly before the Armistice was signed. Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et ...
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Analysis of Small Pain in My Chest by Michael Mack
12Small 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 ...
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Analysis of A Psalm of Life by H.W Longfellow
21The 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 ...
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Summary of Small Pain in My Chest by Michael Mack
41Small 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 ...
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Summary of The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey
38Inchcape Rock is a popular poem by Robert Southey about the Inchcape Rock Legend, a reef which is situated in the North Sea, close to the coastal region of Angus in Scotland. The ...
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Summary of A Psalm Of Life by H.W Longfellow
37A Psalm of Life, a lyric of religious emotion was published in October of 1838. This poem is taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s first volume of poems. A ‘psalm’ is a sacred ...
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Analysis of Our Casuraina Tree
0About the author – Born in 1856 in a well known westernized family, Dutt had the advantages of education and happy family which proved to be crucial to her development as an ...
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Summary and Analysis of No Men are Foreign by James Kirkup
13About the poet –Poet, playwright, novelist, traveller James Falconer Kirkup (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) started his poetic career with short verses, haikus and tankas, went to ...
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To India – My Native Land Summary and Analysis
5Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831), poet, radical thinker, educator, social reformist, founder of the Young Bengal group, was born in India, Kolkata to ...
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Analysis of To the Indian Who Died in Africa by T.S. Eliot
4About the poet – The more one tries to say about T.S. Eliot, the more one fumbles for adjectives to describe the prodigious genius. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 – 1965) was born in ...
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Analysis of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
32The Professor is noted for its expression of the Indian attitude. Indians are proud of their proficiency in English but they are never bothered about the fact that their Indian ...
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Summary and Analysis of the Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
17About the poet – A Jewish-Indian poet, playwright, art critic (The Names of India (1964–66)) and editor (Poetry India (1966–67)) born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai, was regarded ...
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Summary of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
54The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel is a satirical poem written in the form of a conversation between a professor and his student. A satire is way of criticizing a person, an idea or ...
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