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
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
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.
The Soul Has Bandaged Moments Main points • A poem which really sums up much of Dickinson’s work. Why- deals with the two extremes of emotion in her poetry. On one hand great exhilaration and freedom, on the other hand, fear and feeling trapped. Both of these feelings/emotions run throughout her poetry. • We see … Read more
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
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.