Beaming Notes
Your Guide to Literature
Anne Bradstreet- The poetess was born on March 20, 1612, and being a Puritan, she wrote poems in addition to her household duties. She was a devoted wife and a mother of eight. In many of her personal poems, she has confessed that her life would have been incomplete without her family around. Besides the major… Continue reading To My Dear and Loving Husband Summary and Analysis by Anne Bradstreet: 2022
In Daddy Plath draws the reader’s gaze to the connection with the story of Electra: [The poem] is spoken by a girl with an Electra Complex. Her father died while she thought he was God. Her case is complicated by the fact that her father was also a Nazi and her mother very possibly part… Continue reading Daddy Poem Summary by Sylvia Plath: 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
Oscar Wilde is best known for the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the play The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as for his infamous arrest and imprisonment for being gay. However, he started his literary career with poetry. A brilliant student, his first efforts at poetry were made while he was still an undergraduate at… Continue reading Madonna Mia by Oscar Wilde Summary: 2022
Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles L. Dodgson, the renowned Victorian author and mathematician. The eldest of 11 children, Carroll was rather adept at entertaining himself and his siblings. He also pursued photography, often choosing children as the subject of his portraits. One of his favourite models was a little girl named Alice… Continue reading How doth the Little Crocodile by Lewis Carroll Summary: 2022
Elizabeth Bishop was born on 8th February 1911, in Worcester, Massachusetts. After her father died and her mother was put in a mental asylum when she was very young, Bishop was first sent to live with her maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia and later lived with paternal relatives in Worcester and South Boston. From 1935… Continue reading First Death in Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Bishop Summary: 2022
About the poet: Robin Klein is an Australian children’s writer. She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, in 1936. Before becoming a writer, she had several different jobs, such as working as a nurse, at a bookstore, and as a teaching aide at a school for the disadvantaged. Her writing often features young protagonists who… Continue reading Amanda by Robin Klein Summary and Meaning: 2022
This poem has two distinct settings. The first setting is that of the zoo, and it is the setting that the tiger inhabits in reality. The second setting is that of the forest, and it is the setting that the tiger has been taken out of and no longer has access to, and the setting… Continue reading A Tiger in the Zoo: Summary: 2022
About the poet: Frediric Ogden Nash was born in Rye, New York, on 19th August 1902. He came from a distinguished family, and in fact, the city of Nashville in Tennessee was named in honour of one of his forbearers. He worked for a short time on Wall Street, and then as a schoolteacher, before becoming a… Continue reading The Tale of Custard the Dragon Summary by Ogden Nash: 2022
This poem summary focuses on the poem ‘East London’ by the eminent Victorian poet Matthew Arnold. Arnold was a keen observer of his times, and the people he saw around him. This is reflected in most of his poetry. ‘East London’ is no exception. ‘East London’ is written in the form of a sonnet. Therefore,… Continue reading East London Summary by Matthew Arnold: 2022
