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About the poet: An anonymous poem means that the name of the pet who has written it is unknown. Similarly, “The Prayer of the Woods” is a poem that you can see etched on sign posts at the beginning of forest trails all over North America but nowhere is the name of the poet mentioned.… Continue reading Summary of The Prayer of the Woods: 2022
About the poet: Keki Nasserji Daruwalla is an Indian English poet and short story writer. He was born in 1937 in Lahore (which is now in Pakistan). Daruwalla has published nine volumes of poetry, the first being Under Orion (1970), and the latest ones being Night River (2000) and The Map-Makers (2002). His Collected Poems… Continue reading Summary of Razia the Tigress by Keki N. Daruwalla: 2022
About the Poet: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, born on October 21, 1772, was an English poet as well as a literary critic of modern English tradition. He was also a philosopher, a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Energetic in the stir of the French Revolution as an unorthodox writer of… Continue reading Summary of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge: 2022
About the Poet: Robert Southey was an English poet whose main literary movement was Romanticism. Robert Southey was born in Wine Street, Bristol, England, to Robert Southey and Margaret Hill. He was educated at Westminster School, London. Although originally a radical supporter of the French Revolution, Southey followed the trajectory of fellow Romantic poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, towards conservatism.… Continue reading A Short Introduction and Summary of The Inchcape Rock by Southey: 2022
About the Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an imperious figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America. Born in Portland, Maine in 1807, he became a national literary character by the 1850s and a world-famous personality by the time of his death in 1882. He was a traveler, a linguist, and a romantic who acknowledged… Continue reading Summary of The Arrow and the Song by H. W. Longfellow: 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 Night of the Scorpion: Summary First stanza:The poem started with the reminiscence of a terrible event in the childhood of the poet when his mother was stung by a scorpion. This incident, in retrospect, brings forth the poet’s gall of criticism against the irrationality of the average uneducated person. The poet brings out the… Continue reading The Night of the Scorpion: Summary: 2022
About the poet: Robert Browning (1812-1889) was born at Camberwell to a banker father. He was not taught in a very traditional manner and was allowed to follow his lifelong passion to study unusual subjects. He wrote his first poem at the tender age of 12. He was very much influenced by Shelley. His first… Continue reading Stanza-wise Summary of The Last Ride Together by Browning: 2022
About the Poet: Amanda Lukas is an American poet who writes beautiful poems on the relationship, romance, heartbreaks etc. Her poems are the source of expressing her emotions to the readers. Her poems could represent for any woman across cultures, and any woman of any age could relate to her. Her other poems: Daddy, When… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Wining and Dining by Amanda Lukas: 2022
