After Apple-Picking
by Robert Frost
‘After Apple-Picking’ by Robert Frost begins with an apple-picker’s thoughts after a day of work. The poem goes on to explore themes of life and death.
Birches
by Robert Frost
‘Birches’ is one of the most famous, admired, and thoughtful Robert Frost poems. The poem profoundly describes something simple, an ordinary incident, in elevated terms.
Fire and Ice
by Robert Frost
‘Fire and Ice’ by Robert Frost explores a universal interest in the apocalypse. It has always been a phenomenon capable of capturing people’s minds.
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire
by Edmund Spenser
‘My Love is like to ice, and I to fire’ describes the contradictory but also complementary personalities of the speaker and his lover.
The Darkling Thrush
by Thomas Hardy
‘The Darkling Thrush’ is typical of Thomas Hardy’s work in that it shows life on Earth, human as well as animal, existing under the iron grip of an unsympathetic force, in this case, Nature.
The Eve of St. Agnes
by John Keats
‘The Eve of St. Agnes’ by John Keats is a celebration of an idealized love between two beautiful and heroic characters. it’s written in Spenserian.