Summary of the Poem Birches: This poem “Birches” has been composed by Robert Frost. The poet says that he looks at the darker trees on his visit to the forest. Some dark trees are growing straight upwards but the more beautiful trees of birches which are fairer in colour and growing slanting. The poet likes … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: “Two Tramps in Mud Time” is one of the best – known poems of “A Further Range”, a volume of poems, first published in 1936. What strikes us about the poem is that the poem is a radiant evidence of Frost’s visual imagination coupled with psychological insight into human beings. The … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: “Hawk Roosting” is one of the Hughes’ simplest poems. It has been written in the form of monologue. It was first published in Lupercal in 1960. This poem is written in the first person i.e., the hawk is itself narrating something from its own mouth. It is a predatory bird … Read more
We shall have to look back a little and trace the intellectual history of Shelley before we can understand why he is a revolutionary. Rationalism of the eighteenth century was an important factor. The eighteenth century was an age of prose, social – mindedness and reason—the age of Voltaire, Newton, Adam Smith, Swift, Fielding, Lessing, … Read more
Shelley believed in a Soul of the Universe, a Spirit in which all things live and move and have their being which, as one feels in the Prometheus, is unable, inconceivable even to man, for “the deep truth is imageless.” His most passionate desire was not, as was Browning’s, for an increased and ennobled individuality, … Read more
Shelley does not commit himself to definite pantheism anywhere. But there are passages which seem to come near to pantheism. He often conceives of a Spirit diffused through, and permeating the universe — a Spirit that seems also to impel human thoughts. Shelley pays homage to such a Spirit in his Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. … Read more
Introduction of Fourth Section “Death by Water”: In fourth section “Death by Water,” Eliot shows the significance of water as a means of purification and re – birth. There are two associations – one from Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the other from the ancient Egyptian myth of the god of fertility. The death of Phlebas, the … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is one of the finest odes of Keats. Keats wrote it in the same circumstances in which he wrote his another great Ode to a Nightingale. A marble urn belonging to Lord Holland is the main source of this poem. The urn is still there in … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: The poem entitled “Frost at Midnight” was written by Coleridge, to celebrate the birth of his son, Hartley, at Stowey in 1798 and it was first published with Fear in Solitude, and France: An Ode. The poem is written in a contemplative mood. The atmosphere as described in the poem, is … Read more
The poem has autobiographical interest. The poet invites his readers to have a peep into his past life. They are allowed to catch a few glimpses of his school days. This is what all great romantic poets do. They become personal and take the reader into their confidence from this poem. We learn that the … Read more