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About the Poet: Lord Alfred Tennyson (August 1809- October 1892) was a Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria. While he still remains one of Britain’s most popular poets till date, some of his short-lyrical works include “Break, Break, Break”, “Tears, Idle Tears” and “Crossing the Bar”. His work… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson: 2022
About A. K. Ramanujan: A. K. Ramanujan was not only an enlightened poet, but also a philologist, a folklorist, a translator, a scholar and a playwright. Well-versed with the languages of Kannada and English, Ramanujan had done a fair amount of research in the languages of Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. A firm believer in a… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Elements of Composition by Ramanujan: 2022
Introduction to the Poet of Still Life: Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan was born in Mysore City on 16th March, 1929 as the son of an astronomer and professor of Mathematics. Not only an Indian poet and scholar of English Literature, but he was also a translator, playwright, folklorist and philologist. He… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Still Life by Ramanujan: 2022
Introduction to the Poet of Ask Me No More: Alfred Tennyson was born in 1809 at Somersby in Lincolnshire as the son of a clergyman. After schooling at Louth, he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge. Here, he won the Chancellor’s Medal for a poem on Timbuctoo. At the age of twelve, he wrote an epic poem… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Ask Me No More by Tennyson: 2022
‘The Garden’ by Andrew Marvell is one of the most complex poems with a blend of passion and wit, mixed with imagery, thus standing supreme in literature. The poem can be analyzed in a political manner and also with reference to the Bible. Its striking conceits and psychological insights magnify the poem’s beauty and are… Continue reading The Garden: Summary and Analysis: 2022
About Andrew Marvell: Well-known for being one of the first renowned English metaphysical poets of his time, Andrew Marvell was also a satirist and politician. Born on the 31st of March 1621 in Yorkshire to the clergyman of the Church of England, he completed his Bachelor’s at Trinity College, Cambridge.Having travelled through continental… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of On A Drop Of Dew: 2022
Introduction to the Poet: Allen Ginsberg was the famous American poet of beat movement OF 1950s. He is remembered for his controversial poem ‘Howl’, reflecting his own homosexuality in the times when being homosexual was a crime in the U.S. He laid his hands on most of the taboos of… Continue reading A Summary and Analysis of Father Death Blues: 2022
Anne Bradstreet- Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in Northamptonshire. Post marriage at 16, she and her entire family moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts, where she raised eight children with her husband. She pioneered English verse in the American colonies, and many of her works were later published in England. Her poetry later invited critical appraisal for… Continue reading The Author To Her Book Summary and Analysis by Anne Bradstreet: 2022
Adrienne Rich- Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1929 to a renowned pathologist and professor father and a former concert pianist mother. Having an intellectual background, Rich excelled in academics and later got married to a Harvard economics professor with whom she bore three children. After his demise, Rich moved in with her long-time… Continue reading Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law Summary and Analysis by Adrienne Rich: 2022
Allen Ginsberg- Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet of Jewish origin, and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. Ginsberg was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paterson. As a young teenager, Ginsberg used to write letters to The New York Times on… Continue reading A Supermarket in California Summary and Analysis by Allen Ginsberg: 2022
