Ulysses By Alfred Lord Tennyson Introduction Ulysses is an oft-quoted poem written in blank verse by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1833 and was published with his Poems in 1842. He takes up the hero from Homer’s Odyssey and the medieval hero of Dante’s Inferno and reworks on it to create…
Some Important Themes In American Poetry [Adapted from Thematic Guide to American Poetry by Allan Burns] Civilisation The poets of America have always had an uneasy relationship with American civilisation as a whole. On the one hand, they extolled ideas like freedom, democracy, opportunity, prosperity, and ingenuity; on the other,…
A Brief History of American Poetry American poetry arose first as an outcome of the hard work by the colonialists to add their opinions and expressions to English poetry in the 17thcentury, just prior to the unification of the thirteen colonies even though, earlier to this constitutional unification of colonies,…
Introduction to the poem Maya Angelou was a great poet of America. She writes a good number of great poems. I know why the caged bird sings is one of the famous poems. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is one of her powerful poems expressing the African American’s…
A Roadside Stand by Robert Frost Paraphrase In this poem, the poet contrasts the lives of poor and deprived countryside people who struggle to live, with the thoughtless city people who don’t even bother to notice the roadside stand that these people have put up to sell their goodies. Lines…
Patricia Grace, born on August 17,1937, whose real name is Patricia Frances Gunson, is a New Zealand writer who is a towering figure in the rise of Maori fiction. Her works depict the true Maori culture and diversity. Through her writings she showed the world what it is to mean to be a Maori.
The Mountain and the Squirrel Outline of The Poem “The Mountain and the Squirrel” is a poem in which the Squirrel and the Mountain fight each other to assert their superiority. Both the mountain and the squirrel boast about their superiority and, finally, accept each other’s significant role in God’s…
Sonnet 29 also named as “When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes” is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet William Shakespeare creates a depressed and despairing speaker who serendipitously reflects upon the love of a close friend in order to prove to the reader that no matter how difficult life becomes, we can be content in the blessings of love.
A poor little girl, shivering and barefoot, tries to sell matches in the street on the bitterly cold New Year's Eve. She huddles in the alley between two houses and lights matches, one by one, to warm herself, afraid of going home because her strict father would beat her for failing to sell any matches.
A Mad Tea Party Introduction Alice becomes a guest at the “mad” tea party along with the March Hare, the Hatter, and the very tired Dormouse, who often falls asleep, only to be violently woken up moments later by the March Hare and the Hatter. The characters give Alice many…
Tobacco is an agricultural product. Processed from the leaves of the plants of the genus Nicotiana. It's most commonly used as a recreational drug. There are more than 70 tobacco species in the plant genus Nicotiana. It is believed that Christopher Columbus and his men on landing the island of Tobago in 1492 found the native using tobacco leaves for pleasure.
