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.
Buffalo Bill’s by Edward Estlin Cummings | Summary and Analysis
October 25, 2026
Buffalo Bill’s by Cummings plays with more than one possibility of meaning and attitude of the poet towards the subject, the dead hero, Buffalo Bill. In one sense, the poem is an expression of respect...
Edward Estlin Cummings | Biography
October 25, 2026
Edward Estlin Cummings is an American poet of great lyrical intensity. He was a son of an English professor at Harvard who was later pastor of the Old South Church in Boston. Cummings took his...
Edmund Spenser | Biography
October 25, 2026
Edmund Spenser is one of the greatest English poets, the poets’ poet, the New Poet, and the great synthesizer of many ‘heritages’ of the European and British thought and literature. Spenser bridged the medieval and...
The City in the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe | Summary and Analysis
October 25, 2026
The City in the Sea, published in 1845, is a lyric poem by Edgar Allan Poe in which Death is personified and the setting is Gothic. Gothic setting is the chief instrument of Poe in...
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe | Summary and Analysis
October 25, 2026
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is a narrative of a young man who is bereaved by the death of the woman he loved. He compulsorily constructs self-destructive meaning around a raven’s repetition of the...
Edgar Allan Poe | Biography
October 25, 2026
Edgar Allan Poe is an American writer, known as a poet and a critic both famous for his short stories, especially the tales of the mysterious and macabre. The literary merits of Poe’s writings have...
Girl Powdering her Neck by Cathy Song | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
Girl Powdering her Neck by Cathy Song is written with a painting perspective with reference to Ukiyo-e by Utamaro. The present poem is based on a picture, a special kind of Japanese woodprint by famous...
Cathy Song | Biography
October 16, 2026
Cathy Song is a descendant of Korean immigrants born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised in Wahiawa, a village on the island of Oahu. She was educated at the University of Hawaii, Wellesley College, and Boston...
The Truth the Dead Know by Anne Sexton | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
The Truth the Dead Know is a confessional elegy on the death of the poet’s parents in 1959. Sexton’s mother died in March, due to cancer and father died in June, mainly due to alcoholism....
Anne Sexton | Biography
October 16, 2026
Anne Sexton is a twentieth century American poet known for the frank treatment of intimate and taboo subjects. Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Sexton attended Garland Junior in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1947 until 1948, when she...
