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“On Friendship” is the 19th piece in Kahlil Gibran’s best-known work, The Prophet.The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf.In this book, the prophet Almustafa has lived in the foreign city known as Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship… Continue reading On Friendship: Summary: 2023
About the Poet: Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is generally thought to be the national poet of Scotland because he is the most widely read among all poets who have written in the Scots language. Burns has also written in English and a light Scots dialect so that his poetry would be understood by an audience beyond… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of To a Louse by Robert Burns: 2022
About the Poet: Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is generally thought to be the national poet of Scotland because he is the most widely read among all poets who have written in the Scots language. Burns has also written in English and a light Scots dialect so that his poetry would be understood by an audience beyond… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Scots Wha Hae by Robert Burns: 2022
About the Poet: Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is generally thought to be the national poet of Scotland because he is the most widely read among all poets who have written in the Scots language. Burns has also written in English and a light Scots dialect so that his poetry would be understood by an audience beyond… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Sweet Afton by Robert Burns: 2022
About the Poet: Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is generally thought to be the national poet of Scotland because he is the most widely read among all poets who have written in the Scots language. Burns has also written in English and a light Scots dialect so that his poetry would be understood by an audience beyond… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns: 2022
About the poet: Louise Bogan was an American poet. She was chosen as the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in the year 1945. Being the poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine for nearly 40 years, she also had a large part to play in shaping mainstream poetic sensibilities of the mid-20th century. She is often thought to… Continue reading Summary of Women by Louise Bogan: 2022
“To Sleep” is a direct address by the poet, Wordsworth, to the sleep that often eludes him. It sounds as if it is coming from an insomniac who knows the true value of sleep. About the Poet: William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet. Along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he helped to inaugurate the Romantic Age in English literature with the joint… Continue reading To Sleep: Summary: 2022
About the Poet: Benjamin Peck Keith was an American poet. Not much is known about him. It is estimated that he was born in the year 1857. His father was named Edwin S. Keith, and his mother was named Julia A. Pelera. Hence it is safe to assume that he was of mixed race. Records… Continue reading The Wreck of the Titanic: Summary: 2023
About the poet: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author. He belonged to the Romantic age. He is considered to be the greatest Russian poet of all time, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin was born in Moscow on 6th June 1799. Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen. When he graduated from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, he… Continue reading Summary of To My Nanny by Alexander Pushkin: 2022
About the poet: James Mercer Langston Hughes (popularly known as Langston Hughes) was an African American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the inventors of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leading proponent of the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, on… Continue reading Summary of Oppression by Langston Hughes: 2022
