Mir Afzal She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways Wordsworth appears to have written the group of ‘Lucy’ poems when he was in Germany in the winter of 1799. They were first printed in the Lyrical Ballads collection in 1800. This poem appeared second in a group of three, with ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’ the third … Read more
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Background Wordsworth appears to have written the group of ‘Lucy’ poems when he was in Germany in the winter of 1799. They were first printed in the Lyrical Ballads collection in 1800. This poem appeared third in a group of three. The poems have an elegiac quality in that … Read more
To My Sister Background The poem To My Sister was written and published in 1798 when Wordsworth was twenty-eight years old. At this point, he was living with his sister Dorothy and was working closely with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the Lyrical Ballads. Structure The poem consists of ten stanzas. Each stanza contains four lines … Read more
BROOKE’S POETIC STYLE Rupert Brooke’s sonnets are graceful and lyrical in nature. All the five sonnets of his 1914 collection represent his highly intellectual and refined response to the Great War. An air of moral crisis together with the society’s concerns also gets reflected through his sonnets. In the poem “The Soldierâ€, Brooke has used … Read more
This section shall bring out some of the points in terms of which Owen’s poems are to be read. Owen’s portrayal of the war is of prime importance in the light of its representation of crude realities that he himself experienced as a soldier. His poems give us insightful exposure to the ground realities of … Read more
As a poet, Wilfred Owen was instrumental in depicting the realistic effects of War. As such, his poetic style appeared to be a combination of satire and anguish, but he depicted “an ampler gift in traditional and Romantic qualities of style and imagination, which unite with the realism and qualify it.†(Perkins, 280) However, concentrating … Read more
As a poet, Owen was always keen to represent the pity of the destruction caused by war to his fellow men. Through this poem, Owen takes his readers to witness the horrifying situation in which war destructs youths. The poem was written in 1918, a few months prior to the end of the War. The … Read more
Analysis The poem is written in the form of an elegiac lyric and it first appeared in 1918 in the Nation. It one of Owen’s final poems, continues the author’s quest to criticise the war, but, more importantly, it is an existential contemplation of life and can be seen as “his own unplanned tragic epitaphâ€. … Read more
Disabled by Owen This is a particularly disturbing poem. Its success lies in Owen’s ability to take an unusual scenario to make a point. It explores the motivation to enlist for the war, the naivety, and the lure of what a uniform means and how he lost his sense of ‘doing it for the uniform’. … Read more
Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen is a graphic poem full of disturbing images of men who have returned from the war suffering from shellshock. Shellshock is also known as battle fatigue and post-traumatic stress disorder. It results in a soldier’s inability to fight, slow reaction times and an inability to connect with their surroundings.
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young’ is an unusual poem that doesn’t use a traditional rhyme scheme. It is one of his early poems, it not one of his well known one and therefore is not as popular with students.
In this lesson, we shall learn about jumbled sentences. We express our thoughts by speaking or writing words. The group of words must be structured in a particular order because only the group of orderly arranged words make complete sense and convey a clear meaning.