W.H.Auden’s “Funeral Blues” focuses on death as a irreversible phenomenon Though people die ,this analysis of “Funeral Blues” echoes that relationships don’t. The poem “Funeral Blues” was first published as “Song IX” from Twelve Songs (1936). The poem conjures the atmosphere of a funeral. The tone of the poem is imperative as Death is commanding, ...
Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters” was published in 1832. The inspiration for the poem was Tennyson’s visit to Spain (1829) along with Arthur Hallam where they visited the Pyrenees Mountains. About the Poem The prescribed poem deals with a group of mariners who after consuming the lotos, went into a state of trance or temporal amnesia. The ...
Byron’s “When We Two Parted” was published in 1813 in “The poetical works of Lord Byron”. When the poet had to part from his beloved, the moment was colored by intense sorrow connoted by the word ‘tears’. The word ‘silence’ suggests that their silence spoke volumes. This silence was perhaps owing to an inexplicable reason ...
“Remember” by Christina Rossetti was published in Goblin Market and other Poems. The central concept of the poem is the abstract phenomenon of remembrance. The poem is addressed to a loved one. It is a universal fact that one is remembered and regarded more when he/she is at a distance. The remembrance of the one ...
Robert Frost has been hailed as “the Farmer-Poet of America”. So for him, the act of mowing is intricately linked to his way of life. It is more than a mechanical routine for him. Though the scythe is a machine by itself, Robert Frost apostrophizes the same by attributing it with human-like qualities. At once ...
Ted Hughes introduces “Wodwo” in his essay “Poetry in the making”:”Here is another poem of my own about some goblin creature-I imagine this creature just discovering that it is alive in the world. It is quite bewildered to know what is going on .It has a whole string of thoughts, but at the centre of ...
Insensibility is said to have been written as a response to William Wordsworth who once claimed that “Who is the happy warrior/ Who is he/ That every man in arms should wish to be” (Character of the Happy Warrior). The poem appears to be a sarcastic retort to the Romantic poet since most of the ...
“Home Burial” by Robert Frost is a dramatic lyric that verges on despair through discord, and discord through despair. A dramatic lyric deals with a single scene and relies on dialogue rather than narration or description for elaboration of the subject. Significance of the Title The title “Home Burial” denotes the death of the son ...
The possessions of the Arundel family came into the hands of to the Duke of Norfolk,by marriage in 1580. Chichester Cathedral holds the tomb of a member of the Arundel family. Philip Larkin’s “The Arundel Tomb” is the last poem in Larkin’s collection The Whitsun Weddings. Larkin visualizes the monument (in stone) of an earl ...
David Mandessi Diop (1927 – 1960) was a revolutionary African poet born in France but with parents of West African descent. His poems highlighted problems of Africa brought about by colonialism and gave a message to Africans to bring about change and freedom. He was known for his involvement in the negritude movement in France, ...
