โ€˜On the Move,โ€™ by Thom Gunn โ€“ Summary & Analysis

โ€˜On the Move,โ€™ by Thom Gunn About the Poem โ€œOn the Moveโ€ is one of the famous poems of Thom Gunn. It is included as an opening poem of his poetry collection โ€œThe Sense of Movement.โ€ The poem is described as โ€œa sociological footnote of the 1950s.โ€ Motorcyclists have come to represent reckless vitality and โ€ฆ Read more

Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser โ€“ Summary, Analysis & Critical Appreciation

Epithalamion by Edmund Spenser Epithalamion is an ode written as the finale of Amoretti, commemorates Spenserโ€™s marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of James Boyle, the relation of Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle, on June 11, 1594. The music begins before sunrise and continues through the wedding ceremony and into the newlywed coupleโ€™s consummation night. Throughout โ€ฆ Read more

The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes โ€“ Summary and Analysis

The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes Introduction The most of Hughesโ€™ poetic work is inspired by nature, particularly the innocent savagery of animals, which he has been fascinated by since a young age. He frequently wrote about the natural worldโ€™s contrasts of beauty and violence. Animals serve as a metaphor for his philosophy of life: โ€ฆ Read more

Holy Thursday (Songs of Experience) โ€“ Summary and Analysis

Holy Thursday (Songs of Experience) William Blakeโ€™s poem โ€œHoly Thursdayโ€ was first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794. Unlike its companion poem in โ€œSongs of Innocenceโ€ (1789), this poem focuses on society as a whole rather than on the London ceremony. Holy Thursdayย (Text) Is this a holy thing to see,ย In a rich โ€ฆ Read more

Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence) by William Blake โ€“ Summary, Analysis and Critical Appreciation

Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence) William Blakeโ€™s poem โ€œHoly Thursdayโ€ appears in his 1789 collection of poems Songs of Innocence. (Songs of Experience also contains a Holy Thursday poem that contrasts with this song.) The poem describes a ceremony held on Ascension Day, which in England was then known as Holy Thursday, a name that โ€ฆ Read more

Songs of Innocence and Experience โ€“ Summary and Analysis

Songs of Innocence and Experience Summary Songs of Innocence, William Blakeโ€™s second collection of poetry, was published in 1789. He published it with illustrated plates of his own design, a feat he accomplished by an engraving and illustrating method of his own conception. Blakeโ€™s series of Illuminated Books began with the publishing of Songs of โ€ฆ Read more

Summary of The Stone Goddess by Sri Aurobindo

The Stone Goddess โ€“ Summary โ€œThe Stone Goddessโ€ by Sri Aurobindo is a sonnet. Sri Aurobindo penned this poem after visiting a Kali shrine on the Narmada River. โ€œYou stand before a Kali temple beside a sacred river and see what?โ€”a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is โ€ฆ Read more