Passage to India by Walt Whitman
‘Passage to India’ by Walt Whitman describes an imaginary journey that a speaker wants to take into fabled India.
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
‘Ariel’ by Sylvia Plath is a deeply metaphorical poem. It focuses on the speaker’s experiences during a terrifying horseback ride.
Sonnet LXXVII by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
‘Sonnet LXXVII’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti concerns aestheticism, or the manifestations of Beauty, as a form of religious obsession.
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
‘District and Circle’, written by Seamus Heaney, depicts parts of a journey, or of several journeys, on the London Underground.