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.
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Summary of Small Pain in My Chest by Michael Mack
Small Pain in My Chest by Michael Mack was read over to 5000 people, at the funeral of the first Blackhawk…
Summary of The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey
Inchcape Rock is a popular poem by Robert Southey about the Inchcape Rock Legend, a reef which is situated in the…
Summary of A Psalm Of Life by H.W Longfellow
A Psalm of Life, a lyric of religious emotion was published in October of 1838. This poem is taken from Henry…
Analysis of Our Casuraina Tree
About the author – Born in 1856 in a well known westernized family, Dutt had the advantages of education and happy…
Summary and Analysis of No Men are Foreign by James Kirkup
About the poet –Poet, playwright, novelist, traveller James Falconer Kirkup (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) started…
To India – My Native Land Summary and Analysis
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831), poet, radical thinker, educator, social reformist,…
Analysis of To the Indian Who Died in Africa by T.S. Eliot
About the poet –
The more one tries to say about T.S. Eliot, the more one fumbles for adjectives to describe the…
Analysis of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
The Professor is noted for its expression of the Indian attitude. Indians are proud of their proficiency in English…
Summary and Analysis of the Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
About the poet – A Jewish-Indian poet, playwright, art critic (The Names of India (1964–66)) and editor (Poetry…
Summary of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel is a satirical poem written in the form of a conversation between a professor and…
Analysis of In The Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu is a poet of Indian thought and culture and her poems described Indian flora and fauna, Indian…
Summary of In The Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu, the poet, freedom fighter and a patriot was also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India.…
Analysis of Where the Mind is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore
“Where the Mind is without Fear” was written during the reign of the British in India, prior to the country gaining…