Category: Poem Analysis (by Poet)
Old Folks Laugh Analysis by Maya Angelou
0Old Folks Laugh Explanation: The first stanza of the poem, in tandem with the title, establishes the idea that old folks really know how to laugh. The poet suggests that having ...
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Women Work Analysis by Maya Angelou
1This poem elucidates upon the predicament of women in the sense that it talks about how her world revolves around the domesticated tasks of cooking, cleaning, caring, and tending ...
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Harlem Hopscotch Analysis by Maya Angelou
0Maya Angelou’s Harlem Hopscotch describes the life of the ‘blacks,’ – the African-Americans in Harlem, New York – as a game of hopscotch. According to Angelou, life at Harlem ...
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Nick and the Candlestick Analysis by Sylvia Plath
0The poem Nick and the Candlestick written by Sylvia Plath is one of her last poems. It was published posthumously by her husband, Ted Hughes in the collection called Birthday ...
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Winter Landscape with Rooks Analysis by Sylvia Plath
0The poem Winter Landscape with Rooks is one of the typical Plath poems. In this article we have attempted Winter Landscape with Rooks analysis by Sylvia Plath. The poem with it ...
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Analysis- ‘The Last Night that She Lived’ Summary by Emily Dickinson
0‘The Last Night that She Lived’ is a poem by Emily Dickinson in which she reflects upon the last moments of a person from the perspective of the observer. The poem is set on the ...
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Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments Meaning by William Shakespeare
1About the Poet: William Shakespeare who was born on April 23, 1564; in Stratford-upon-Avon was an English poet, playwright, and actor, extensively looked upon as the supreme ...
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Analysis of “Purdah” by Sylvia Plath
0The poem was published posthumously in the anthology Winter Trees in 1971. However, according to Ted Hughes this particular poem was meant to be published in the anthology Ariel. ...
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Analysis of ‘Lady Lazarus ‘ by Sylvia Plath
0In this intensely self-dramatizing poem, she wrote shortly before her own suicide in February 1963, Plath adopted highly strained metaphors to describe her psychic state. “Lady ...
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Analysis of ‘Daddy’ by Sylvia Plath
0Daddy was written on October 12, 1962, shortly before her death, and published posthumously in Ariel in 1965. Though most of Plath’s poetry centres around her loss of her father ...
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Analysis of Two Sisters of Persephone by Sylvia Plath
0The poem Two Sisters of Persephone is written by Slyvia Plath in 1956, the same year of her, marriage. The poem is about two lives which are binary to each other. The title ...
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Summary and Analysis of ‘It was not Death, for I Stood Up’
0‘It was not Death, for I stood up’ is a poem by Emily Dickinson where she talks about hopelessness and depression. She gives the reader a glimpse into the state of her mind with ...
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The Disquieting Muses Analysis by Sylvia Plath
0The poem The Disquieting Muses written in 1957 serves as a good example of alienation. The poem depicts a non-communicative mother-daughter relationship. Plath wrote this poem ...
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“Ariel” Summary and Analysis by Sylvia Plath
0The poem was written on October 27, 1962, shortly before her death. It was published posthumously in the eponymous collection in 1965. The title is perhaps based on the horse ...
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