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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834), described by Charles Lamb as ‘Logician, Metaphysician, bard’ had a very disquiet life which was made more tumultuous by his own sensitive and uneven temperament. He was a Jesus College, Cambridge graduate. In 1796 he brought out his first collection of his verse under the… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Frost at Midnight by Coleridge

Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was born in London. He became a humourist and a poet. His most famous poem The Song of the Shirt was published in The Punch in 1843 which made him an overnight sensation. The series of the Comic Annual, dating from 1830, was a kind of publication… Continue reading I Remember I Remember Summary and Analysis by Thomas Hood

‘Walking Around’ is a dystopic view of life. Influenced by his walk around Santiago, Neruda composed this poem sometime around 1933. It was published in the Residencia en la tierra II, (‘Residence on Earth’, Volume II) in 1935. The poem consists of 10 stanzas. It begins with the narrator’s exhaustion with being a man and… Continue reading Walking Around Summary by Pablo Neruda

Life and Death: The narrator grapples often with the theme of his life and death, rather, his life in death. In S1, he considers himself a felt swan instead of a human being; in S2, he wants to become inanimate, although he’s alive. In S4, he shows a spark of life and wishes to do… Continue reading Walking Around Analysis by Pablo Neruda

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was raised to see his destiny in terms of a life dedicated to the highest cultural ideals, manifested in an ethic of service through established social and cultural institutions. Eliot was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and one of the twentieth century’s… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Ash Wednesday by T.S.Eliot

Keeping quiet is a poem written by Pablo Neruda in Spanish, which has been translated in English. In this poem, the Nobel Prize winner poet aims to appeal to the readers to take a little time out of their busy schedules and life for a little introspection and retrospection. The title, “Keeping Quiet”, is symbolic… Continue reading Summary of Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda

This poem analysis of ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ is divided into three parts – context, rhyme scheme and rhetorical devices, and deeper meaning. In the absence of any one of these, this poem explanation would be incomplete. Context: ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ was written by Plath while she was still at Smith College, and before… Continue reading Mad Girl’s Love Song Analysis by Sylvia Plath

This poem summary focuses on the poem ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ by the confessional poet Sylvia Plath. Before looking at the content of the poem, one must look at its title though. ‘Mad’ is here used to mean both mentally unstable, and angry. The fact that Plath characterizes herself as a ‘mad girl’ shows that… Continue reading Summary of Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath

This poem summary focuses on Sylvia Plath’s apparently simple poem about a blackberry picking expedition known as ‘Blackberrying’. However, like all of Plath’s poetry, this poem too has a deeper layer of meaning that reveals much about her mental state, in the very mode of confessional poetry. This poem is composed of three stanzas. Each… Continue reading Blackberrying Summary by Sylvia Plath

Blackberrying: Analysis This poem analysis is divided into three parts – context, rhyme scheme and rhetorical devices, and themes. Blackberrying: Context This part of the poem’s explanation is absolutely indispensable to the construction of its meaning. Being a confessional poet, Plath’s poetry always reflects what phase of life she is going through at the moment.… Continue reading Blackberrying: Analysis