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Keeping Quiet is an eloquent piece on peace, humanity, and brotherhood by Pablo Neruda, which is explosive as it is quiet. In a very calm fashion, Neruda leaves us with a world of wisdom in the poem. His calmness is cleverly poised because Neruda figured that staunch activism was not the aptest way to get… Continue reading Keeping Quiet: Summary: 2022
About the poet: Born in the port city of Kisumu, Teddy Temple lives in Nairobi and is still continuing with his academics. Still an amateur, his notable poetries include Roads of love, Friendship, Always Smile, Poetic Escape and A Bright Morning. Most of his poems are quatrains and written in a simple, yet beautifully effective… Continue reading Summary of A Bright Morning by Teddy Temple: 2022
About the Poet: Sylvia Plath is one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century, who had established this reputation by the age of thirty. Her violent emotions and obsession with death is something that caught the eye of multitude readers. She is believed to be one of the most controversial postwar poets. In… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of By Candlelight by Sylvia Plath: 2022
About the poet: Nissim Ezekiel is known as the father of post-independence Indian-English verse. He is the one who started modernity in Indian-English poetry. His simple, conversational style has influenced many later Indian English poets. Poet, dramatist, editor, as well as art-critic, Nissim Ezekiel was born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai. His father, Moses… Continue reading Summary of The Professor by Nissim Ezekiel: 2022
Robert Frost was born on 26th March 1874 in San Francisco. After his father’s death from tuberculosis when Frost was eleven years old, he moved with his mother and sister to Lawrence, Massachusetts. He became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years and eventually enrolled at Dartmouth College and later at… Continue reading Mending Wall Summary Line by Line (2023 Update)
About the poet: Nissim Ezekiel is known as the father of post-independence Indian-English verse. He is the one who started modernity in Indian-English poetry. His simple, conversational style has influenced many later Indian English poets. Poet, dramatist, editor, as well as art-critic, Nissim Ezekiel was born on 14th December 1924 in Mumbai. The Ezekiels belonged… Continue reading Summary of Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel: 2022
About the Poet: John Keats (1795–1821) was one of the leading figures in the second-generation Romantic poets. Born in London, he was the son of Thomas Keats and Frances Jennings. Thomas Keats was an ostler who married the daughter of his master, from whom he inherited the business. Keats’s family was of a humble heritage,… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of On the Grasshopper and Cricket by Keats: 2023
Stanza-wise Summary of A Small pain in my Chest: 1st stanza: The narrator sees a soldier sitting ‘calmly’ underneath a tree. The poet uses the word ‘soldier boy’ to highlight that the soldier was still in the formative years of life. His boyhood had not completely left him and hence he was clearly too young… Continue reading Summary of A Small pain in my Chest by Michael Mack: 2022
The Tables Turned: Summary 1st Stanza:“Up! up! My Friend, and quit your books;Or surely you’ll grow double:Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;Why all this toil and trouble?” Here, the poet tells his friend to leave all his books and get up to come along with him. He says that if he doesn’t read… Continue reading The Tables Turned: Summary: 2022
‘The Bangle Sellers’ was published in the 1912 collection of poetry called The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring. The poem depicts a group of bangle sellers who wander from town to town to sell their inventory. One of them becomes the narrator or the speaker of the poem. About the… Continue reading The Bangle Sellers: Summary: 2022
