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About W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (W B Yeats) was born in the year 1865 at Sandymount in County Dublin, Ireland. His interest in poetry came on at an early age due to his fascination in the Irish legends and occults. His earliest publishing of verse was in the year 1889, though he… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of To Ireland in Coming Times by W. B. Yeats: 2022
About John Keats John Keats belonged to the second generation of Romantic poets which included Lord Bryon and Percy Bysshe Shelly. Born in 1795, John Keats had a short lifespan in which he published 54 poems. His poems were not much praised during his lifetime, but posthumously they received good appreciation. His poems were… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats: 2022
About John Donne John Donne was born in the year 1572 in London. He was a pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets, meaning that his work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and has a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than the lyrical quality of the verse. He mostly wrote satirical… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Twickenham Garden by John Donne: 2022
About John Donne: John Donne was born in the year 1572 in London. He was a pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets, meaning that his work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and has a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than the lyrical quality of the verse. He mostly wrote satirical… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Good Friday,1613, Riding Westward by John Donne: 2022
About H. W. Longfellow: Born in 1807 in Maine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most important poets of his time. He was well widely known and well-loved. His most notable works are ‘Evangeline’, ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ and ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’. Apart from this, he was also well known for his translation… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Wreck of Hesperus by H. W. Longfellow: 2022
About D. H. Lawrence: Born in 1885, a time where the world was undergoing an intellectual revolution, David Herbert (D H) Lawrence, who soaked in this atmosphere, became one of its voices of modernism. He became the author of many famous and notable works, the most famous ones being known for their controversial themes.… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of How Beastly The Bourgeois Is by D. H. Lawrence: 2022
About Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, US. She showed the makings of a poet an artist starting from an early age. She published her first poem as an eight year old. Her father died when she was about eight years old which led her to have ambivalent feelings towards… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Applicant by Sylvia Plath: 2022
In the Easter of 1916, the Irish made an uprising against the British. The British promised them freedom, but when World War I broke out, they postponed this freedom to when it ended. The Irish upheaved against this. And it is about this upheaval that this poem was written. It was published in 1921 when… Continue reading Easter, 1916: Summary and Analysis: 2022
This poem was written during 1915, when people affected by the war were looking for all sorts of escapism, ultimately turning to books and poems for it. This poem is a sort of escape too. The speaker of the poem escapes into his own mind and recaps memories while at the same time observing his… Continue reading Rhapsody On a Windy Night: Summary and Analysis: 2022
About Wilfred Owen: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen is one of the leading poets of the First World War. He was born in the year 1893 in Weston Lane, near Oswestry, England. Owen discovered his poetic vocation in the year 1904 and he began writing poetry sometime before he joined the army in 1915. Owen’s character… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen: 2022
