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About the poet: Brucellish K Sangma is a Garo poet. Hence she hails from the state of Meghalaya in north-eastern India. She is one of the most eminent among Garo women poets. Not much is known about her. The “K” in Sangma’s name stands for Koksi, her clan name, and it suggests that she is quite proud… Continue reading Summary of I Believe by Brucellish K Sangma
A 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 song, an invocation to mankind to follow the path of righteousness. A Psalm of Life is a blow to the pessimistic attitude of… Continue reading Summary of A Psalm Of Life by H.W Longfellow
The 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 English is far from the Native English. STYLE AND FORM: The Professor is both a conversational poem as well as a satirical poem.… Continue reading Analysis 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 his student. A satire is way of criticizing a person, an idea or something where the poet uses humour to point out their faults and weaknesses. Here, the professor makes fun of himself by the… Continue reading Summary of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel
The poem, A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 is penned down in the form of an entry in a journal by a doctor for keeping records. The entry gave the readers a vivid picture of how the people were taken aback when atomic bombs were dropped on their city of Hiroshima in 1945… Continue reading Analysis of A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 by Vikram Seth
A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 by Vikram Seth is a remarkable poem describing the horrors of the aftermath of an atomic bomb explosion. This tragic poem describes the condition of the survivors of the atomic bombing by the United States on Hiroshima during the end of the World War II on 6th… Continue reading Summary of A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945 by Vikram Seth
Sonnets from Portuguese is a collection of 44 sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during the years 1845-1846 and published in 1850. The sonnets have been very popular since their publication. Elizabeth Browning was a Victorian poet whose poetry was very popular in England as well as in the United States. All her sonnets revolve… Continue reading Analysis of If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from Portuguese is a collection of 44 sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during the years 1845-1846 and published in 1850. The sonnets have been very popular since their publication. Elizabeth Browning was a Victorian poet whose poetry was very popular in England as well as in the United States. All her sonnets revolve… Continue reading Summary of If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sarojini Naidu is a poet of Indian thought and culture and her poems described Indian flora and fauna, Indian customs and traditions, festivals, men and women, places legends of kings and queens etc. In her poem, In The Bazaars of Hyderabad, she has sketched the image of a typical Indian bazaar in Hyderabad. Please go… Continue reading Analysis of In The Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu, the poet, freedom fighter, and patriot, was also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India. She was a sensitive poet and wrote poetry based on the beauty of simple joys and sorrows of life. Her poetry included children’s poems, nature poems, poems on love and death, etc. We have divided the explanation… Continue reading Summary of In The Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
