Kedar N. Sharma
Kedar N. Sharma is an experienced literary expert and analyst with a postgraduate degree in English Literature. With many years of experience, he specializes in poetry and literary analysis. His strong knowledge of literary terms and critical theory adds depth and value to his contributions to PoemSense.
Lysistrata | Aristophanes
July 25, 2026
Lysistrata is a vulgar anti-war Greek satiric comedy by the ancient comic playwright Aristophanes. It was first staged in 411 BC, which is one of his shorter plays. This play is the comic and full...
Aristophanes | Biography
July 25, 2026
Aristophanes was born in 448 B.C. and was supposed to die in 388 B.C. Aristophanes was the son of Philippus, of the Deme Cydathenaus. It was uncertain where he was born. He was a contemporary...
Themes in Antigone by Sophocles
July 25, 2026
Antigone by Sophocles deals with the varieties of themes, giving the drama a possibility of diverse interpretations. The major themes found in this drama are, rivalry between sisters, pride, the position of woman as a...
Conflict between Human Law and the Law of God in Antigone by Sophocles
July 25, 2026
Sophocles’ Antigone focuses on the conflict between human law and the law of the gods when following both sets of laws at a time seems to be impossible. Antigone wishes to honor the gods by...
Dramatic Irony in Antigone by Sophocles
July 25, 2026
Dramatic Irony is such an obvious situation of the play to the audience in which the characters are unaware of the truth and the real situation of their surroundings. When the characters find out about...
Summary of Antigone by Sophocles
July 25, 2026
Antigone’s two brothers, Polynices and Eteocles, had fought a battle for the sake of the kingship of Thebes. As the play begins, they are both dead, having killed each other in the war. Creon, the...
Antigone | Sophocles
July 25, 2026
Antigone, the last trilogy of Sophocles but written first in 442 BC, centers on the conflict between Creon, the dictator of Thebes and the strong willed Antigone. The play has only one main plot and...
Sophocles | Biography
July 24, 2026
Sophocles was one of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Euripides. Unlike his younger contemporary, the often-misunderstood Euripides, Sophocles had the fortune of being revered for his...
The Soldier | Rupert Brooke
July 24, 2026
The Soldier is a sonnet in which Brooke glorifies England during the First World War. He speaks in the guise of an English soldier as he is leaving home to go to war. The poem...
The Dead III | Rupert Brooke
July 24, 2026
As Rupert Brooke is one of the pioneers of war poetry, his The Dead III is a famous war poem written in the form of a sonnet. He has written another poem titled same as...
