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Stanza-wise Annotations of The Solitary Reaper: Stanza 1: ‘Behold’- to see ‘Yon’- a dialectical adjective. It refers to something that is distant yet within sight. ‘Highland Lass’- Highlands are plateau like structures. But here, it refers to the Scottish Highlands. ‘Lass’ typically means a young girl or a maiden. The poem is probably set in Scotland.… Continue reading Meaning of The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth: 2022
Annotations of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: In the first stanza, it is seen that three young men are walking together to a wedding when one of them is arrested by a whined old sailor. The young Wedding-Guest angrily demands that the Mariner let go of him, and the Mariner submits. But the young man… Continue reading Meaning and Solved Questions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: 2022
About the Poet: One of America’s leading public philosophers, Adrienne Rich, was a poet, essayist, and feminist. She was called one of the most extensively read and powerful poets of the second half of the 20th century. Extensively read and enormously influential, Rich’s career spanned seven decades and has chopped closely to the story of… Continue reading Summary and Meaning of Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich: 2022
About the Poet: John Keats, one of the supreme English poets and a major figure in the Romantic Movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London. His initial endeavors at writing poetry date from about 1814, and include an imitation of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser. He died at the age of twenty-five and had… Continue reading Summary and Meaning of A Thing of Beauty by Keats: 2022
The poem was anthologized in Collected Poems (1952 – 1988). It is one of the first poems of Ezekiel and presents a scary picture of the superstition ridden India where an insect is given monstrous dimensions. It carries Ezekiel’s stingiest of satires against the many maladies that affect the Indian society. Not to mention it… Continue reading A Short Introduction and Meaning of The Night of the Scorpion: 2022
Critical analysis of The Last Ride Together: This poem is witness to the fact that the outstanding thing about Browning as an artist the variety and originality of his poetic forms. Browning may be described as “the father of modern experimental verse.” It is Browning’s love of realism which makes him give a hearing even to a… Continue reading Critical Analysis and Meaning of The Last Ride Together: 2022
About the Poet: Pablo Neruda was not born with the name which is imprinted across his poetry collections now. He was born as Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in a Chilean household and he took up the pen name of Pablo Neruda inspired by his inspiration, the Czech writer Jan Neruda when he took to… Continue reading A Short Introduction and Meaning of Keeping Quiet: 2022
About the Poet: Michael Mack is a renowned poet, playwright, and performer. His stint in the U.S. air force as an aircraft crew chief gave him a lot of fodder for his poetry. Mack tried his hands at a variety of factory and labor jobs before he resumed his education again at MIT and graduated… Continue reading A Short Introduction to A Small pain in my Chest by Michael Mack: 2022
About Ozymandias: The great sonnet was published on 11th January 1818 on page 24 of number 524 of Leigh Hunt’s ‘The Examiner’. It had apparently been written barely two weeks earlier. The occasion of its composition is now well known. At his house near Marlowe on Saturday 27 December 1817, the day after Boxing Day, Shelley… Continue reading Annotation and Poetic Devices of Ozymandias by Shelley: 2022
