Category Poetry-Notes

Ode to Simplicity – Summary Explained and solved Questions

Ode to Simplicity celebrates the virtue of simplicity in poetry. It is perhaps the most regularly constructed Ode. It contains nine stanzas of six lines each. In address, it is somewhat formal. The poet characterizes Simplicity as a ‘generous maid taught by Nature, who breathes her genuine thoughts in numbers warmly pure and sweetly profound’.

Trees are the Kindest Things I know – Summary, Appreciation and Solved Questions

This is a simple poem of four stanzas, about trees written by Harry Behn. The poem conveys the importance of trees to the world with the use of very simple images and the poem has a regular rhyme scheme. A regular rhyme means that you can see a pattern in the last words of each line. In this poem you will notice that the poem is in couplets with the last two words of each couplet having similar sounding words (example: know/grow, cows/boughs)

“The Garden”, by Andrew Marvel – Summary

"The Garden", by Andrew Marvell, is one of the most famous metaphysical poems of the seventeenth century. This poem was likely written in Marvell’s final years, when he had retired from tutoring Mary Fairfax, daughter of Thomas Fairfax (whom he addresses in Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax) who, in turn, was a General in the army of Oliver Cromwell.

The Flea – Summary and Analysis

Introduction ‘The Flea’ by John Donne is a metaphysical poem. Metaphysical poets belonged to the 17th century. The works of the metaphysical poets are marked by philosophical exploration, colloquial diction, ingenious conceits, irony and metrically flexible lines. John Donne, a…