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Edgar Allan Poe- In his short-lived life of 40 years, Edgar Allan Poe has produced some ever-inspiring work like ‘The Raven’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. Poe was born in 1809 and was orphaned in early childhood. The sudden demise of his mother left a vague effect on the child’s mind, whose influence is seen to be reflected… Continue reading The City in the Sea Summary and Analysis by Edgar Allan Poe: 2022
Dorothy Parker- Dorothy Parker, born on August 22nd 1893, was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist. Also known as Dot or Dottie, Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild to Jacob Henry and Eliza Annie Rothschild in New Jersey. Her mother died before she turned five and her father remarried. Unable to get along with her… Continue reading One Perfect Rose Summary and Analysis by Dorothy Parker: 2022
John Keats- A lover of beauty and rest, John Keats, the romantic poet, was born as the son of a ostler in London. He was apprenticed to a surgeon after college, but left surgery to embrace poetry. His twenty-six year of life with a very short period of poetic career had witnessed malicious criticism and… Continue reading Ode on Melancholy Summary and Analysis by John Keats: 2022
John Keats- John Keats is hailed as one of the greatest romantic poets of all times. Born in 1795, he went on to write several poems starting from an early age of 18. Though his poems were not much appreciated while he was alive, they were, and are much celebrated in the later years. He was… Continue reading Ode on Indolence Summary and Analysis by John Keats: 2022
Dorothy Parker- Dorothy Parker, best known as the humorous voice of the Roaring Twenties, was born in New Jersey on August 22, 1893. Being a voracious reader, with keen interest in literature, she began her career by writing verse as well as captions for a fashion magazine. She is believed to have captured the spirit of… Continue reading The Last Question Summary and Analysis by Dorothy Parker: 2022
Percy Bysshe Shelley- Born in Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex in 1792, Percy Bysshe Shelley belongs to that class of Romantic poets who is regarded not merely as a poet but also as a visionary, an anarchist, a man who believed in revolution. At twelve years of age, he entered a preparatory school at Eton. He… Continue reading Hymn to the Intellectual Beauty Summary and Analysis by P B Shelley: 2022
Rainer Maria Rilke- A Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, born in 1875, who had survived the phase of an unhappy childhood to be widely recognised as ‘one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets’ – Rainer Maria Rilke, the Master of Verse, is no less known.The poetically and artistically talented youth studied literature, art history, and philosophy in Prague… Continue reading Black Cat Summary and Analysis by Rainer Maria Rilke: 2022
Alfred Lord Tennyson- Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. The fourth sibling in twelve, he showed an early interest in writing and had penned down a 6000-line epic at the age of 12. He escaped home with his brother Charles in 1827 due to the troubled environment at home,… Continue reading Break Break Break Summary and Analysis by Alfred Lord Tennyson: 2022
Edgar Allan Poe- Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809, is remembered among the first American writers who became the major figures in the world of literature. Poe’s work as an editor, a poet, and a critic had a profound impact on American and international literature. A predecessor to the “art… Continue reading The Haunted Palace Summary and Analysis by Edgar Allan Poe: 2022
This analysis of Oscar Wilde’s “Madonna Mia” is divided into three parts – context, rhyme scheme and rhetorical devices, and themes. Context: This poem was first published under the title “Wasted Days” in Kottabos, the magazine of Trinity College, Dublin (where Wilde studied while at university). However, in “Wasted Days”, the subject is a fair,… Continue reading Madonna Mia by Oscar Wilde Analysis: 2022
