Miz Alb Sylvia Plath’s ‘Balloons’ narrates her experience and perspectives of having the balloons around like a pet at home. She contrasts childhood with adulthood through the colorful balloons. The balloon when pops, takes the observer from the dream-like state of childhood to the harsh reality of adulthood.
‘Sonnet 227’ is about “Love,” particularly “Unrequited love.” Petrarch expresses his deep love for Laura, her indifference towards his love, and the various contrasting emotions he undergoes in the poem.
‘A Prayer for my Son,’ written from the perspective of a father who wants to protect his son against all odds during the brewing war in Ireland. Read the poem with a complete analysis.
‘Big Poppy’ speak of what happens when a Poppy in its full bloom and a bumblebee meet in Ted Hughes’s usual style of writing.
‘Nineteen hundred and Nineteen’ by W.B. Yeats is a complex poem that deals with his complex emotions as he looks at a war that crushed Ireland.
Rita Dove’s ‘Canary’ is a short poem that commemorates the life of Billie Holiday, an African American jazz singer.
‘To Any Reader’ by Robert Louis Stevenson explores the childhood experiences of a Victorian child through an adult’s perspective.
‘The Mothering Blackness’ by Maya Angelou is a poem about motherhood and love. The poet uses unforgettable images within this piece that portray the complexities of relationships.
‘For the Union Dead’ is a title poem of a collection by Robert Lowell with the same title published by
‘The Man from Snowy River’ by Andrew Barton Paterson, commonly known as Banjo Paterson, a famous Australian poet, is an example
‘Essential Beauty’ is one of the poems of Philip Larkin that deals with the gap between the advertising world and the real world.
‘I died for beauty but was scarce’ by Emily Dickinson reflects her fascination for death and the possible life to follow.
Chaucer gives a detailed picture of the characters he has used in ‘The Canterbury Tales’ in his ‘General Prologue.’ His
‘The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue’ is an interesting work of art by Geoffrey Chaucer, popularly known as the father of
‘Resolution and Independence’ is one of the important poems of Wordsworth. It is a lyric poem composed in the year 1802 and published in 1807 in his collection Poems in Two Volumes.
Mock orange is a deciduous shrub native to Southern Europe, resembles the orange blossoms. In the poem ‘Mock Orange,’ Louise
Financial ruin, a lost son, and hostile living conditions– these are some of the striking features of this sorrowful ballad. You may find yourself asking, how can one man maintain his values amid so many struggles?
‘A light exists in spring’ is about the light in spring that illuminates its surroundings. Though this poem is about nature, it has a deep religious connotation that science cannot explain.
‘Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me’ is a soliloquy from Macbeth. It is one of the most famous soliloquies from Shakespeare, and it reveals Macbeth’s murderous plan to become to King.
‘Spring’ by William Blake is a short lyric poem, first published in his collection Songs of Innocence (1789) and later
William James Collins, the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003, is a contemporary American poet. He
Allen Ginsberg’s ‘America’ deals with the turbulent times in America. It was written during and focused on the period after the Second World War.
Thomas Wyatt’s well-known sonnet ‘I Find no Peace’ describes the intense emotions and wavering moods that being in love can
‘Lapis lazuli’, written on 25th July 1936 by W. B. Yeats was published in his “Last Poems”. The poem is
‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow’ is a well-known soliloquy written by William Shakespeare and delivered by his famous tragic hero, Macbeth.
‘Introduction to the Songs of Innocence’ is the first poem in William Blake’s collection of poetry the ‘Songs of Innocence’
‘First Sight’ by Philip Larkin is a beautiful lyric poem about the natural world. It focuses on the fact that life is impermanent.
W.H. Auden wrote a number of poems from 1940 to 1942. These poems dealt with the conflict between self-willed love
‘Child’ by Sylvia Plath depicts the speaker’s concerns about motherhood. She hopes her child will have a better future than her own.
‘Hush’d Be the Camps To-Day’ by Walt Whitman commemorating the death of President Abraham Lincoln was written on April 19,