Introduction: The great source of character-creation of Dickens is his return to child-like imagination. His vision of the world and its inhabitants is like a child’s and it is as true as that of the grown-ups. Dickens introduces children like Oliver Twist, Smike from the Nicholas Nickleby, Nell in The Old Curiosity shop, Paul Dombey … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: The poem “Come into the Garden Maud” is a love poem in a series of lyrics entitled “Maud; a Monodrama.” It is the twenty second poem in it. The poem is dramatic and psychological in nature. It is a personal poem for the heroine of the poem Maud represents all the … Read more
A Wonderful Lover of Nature: G. M. Hopkins like the great romantic poets of the early nineteenth century is a wonderful lover of Nature. His poem “A Vision of the Mermaids” reminds us of the sensuous love of Keats’ poetry where the latter has given sensuous pictures of Nature. In this poem there are the … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: The sonnet entitled “Thou Art Indeed Just Lord” was written on March 17, 1889. During that time, the poet was suffering from a sense of utter despair because he remained unsuccessful in the sphere of composing good and impressive poem. He was unable to write an immortal piece of poem which … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: The poem “Pied Beauty” is a “Curtal” Sonnet with ten and one half lines. It is a devotional poem in the form of lyric. It is a poem of praise to God for the variousness of His creation. In it, the poet pays homage to God for having created dappled things. … Read more
Introduction of the Poem: The poem entitled “Channel Firing” is an eerie poem. It is related to the atrocities of war. It was published shortly before the beginning of World War I. This poem is a dialogue among the dead who wake up to hear the sound of roaring of gunnery practice in English Channel. … Read more
Elegiac Note in Tennyson’s Verse: W.H. Auden, commenting on Tennyson, said: “There was little about melancholia that he (Tennyson) did not know; there was little else that he did.” While the second part of this comment is an unkind cut, the first part emphasizes an essential truth about the poetry of Tennyson. T.S. Eliot called … Read more
Tennyson’s Scepticism: Tennyson represents’ the Victorian Age in the same way as Pope represents the early 18th century. The Victorian Age was marked throughout by the spirit of enquiry and criticism, by scepticism and religious uncertainty, by spiritual struggle and unrest and by the analytical and critical habit of mind. The popularity of Darwin’s theory … Read more
A Gifted Poet with Unrivalled Powers: Tennyson was a great pictorial artist. He was gifted with unrivalled powers of picturing a scene, a landscape, a person in words marked with clarity and vividness. This art of pictorial painting was learnt by the poet quite early in his life by keeping Keats’s pictorial paintings as his … Read more
Text of the Poem: Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman’s boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor’s lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To … Read more