Mir Afzal The Eagle Alfred Lord Tennyson Introduction: The eagle is a rare bird and cannot be sighted easily. It is a bird of prey. The poet is talking about the regal eagle in this poem. This poem is one of the shortest poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, with just two stanzas of three lines each. The … Read more
From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase Meanings Of Words/Phrases From fairest creatures (line 1): From all beautiful creatures We desire increase (line 1): we want offspring Riper (line 3): more ripe Contracted to (line 5): bound only to Feed’st thy light’s…fuel (line 6): Feed your eyes (light’s flame) with only the sight of yourself – … Read more
The Fountain’ is an inspirational poem. The poet explains the fountain in three separate ways. It’s cheerful and vibrant all the time. It seems to be aspiring higher and higher all the time. The poet wants to master these qualities of constancy and freshness.
We Are Not Afraid to Die…if We Can All Be Together Notes The story ‘We’re Not afraid to Die-if We Can All Be Together’ is a first-person account of the narrator, Gordon Cook. It is a story of extreme courage and skills exhibited by Gordon Cook, his family and crewmen in a war with water … Read more
Question and Answers of The Portrait Of A Lady Q1: What does Khushwant Singh describe in ‘The Portrait Of A Lady’? Answer: In ‘ The Portrait Of A Lady ’, Khushwant Singh draws a pen picture of his beloved grandmother. He describes the relationship he enjoyed with her and the changes that occurred in their … Read more
The Portrait of a Lady By Kushwant Singh Introduction The Portrait of a Lady is a real story about the grandmother of the writer. The name of the writer is Kushwant Singh. Singh remembers his grandmother as an eternally old woman. The writer tells us the story of his childhood that he spent with his … Read more
Summary The Master Speed by Robert Frost is a popular sonnet usually preferred to be recited at weddings. It is said that Robert Frost wrote it when his daughter was about to get married. He wrote it in such a way that she would take her life in a savoury moment, not to rush through … Read more
The Chariot By Emily Dickinson Introduction of the Poem “The Chariot” by Emily Dickinson written around 1863, tries to capture mortal experience from the standpoint of immortality. The idea of death is treated without any of the emotions of fear, anxiety or pain that usually accompany the idea. It is personified as a gentle friend … Read more
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 a hero with an insatiable … Read more
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, they showed their disgust at … Read more
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, an effective oral tradition often … Read more
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 intense longing for freedom. Angelou … Read more