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.

The Fish by Rupert Brooke

The Fish | Rupert Brooke

July 23, 2026

The Fish is a delightful descriptive piece of poem by Rupert Brooke. Poets have often projected themselves sympathetically into the minds of birds and beasts. But seldom has any poet exercised his imagination, as Rupert...

The Great Lover by Rupert Brooke

The Great Lover | Rupert Brooke

July 23, 2026

This great paean of love is one of the most popular poems of Rupert Brooke. It celebrates that love which was the burden of his song. It also presents a long list of the things...

Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke | Biography

July 12, 2026

Rupert Brooke was a poet born to distinction. Son of a Rugby master, he studied at his father’s school and at King’s College, Cambridge, and won many academic honors. He was born into a well-to-do-academic...

Robert Frost | Biography

July 12, 2026

Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. His father was William Prescott Frost and mother was Isabella Moodie Frost, an immigrant from Scotland. His father died in San Francisco when...

Geoffrey Chaucer | Biography

July 12, 2026

Geoffrey Chaucer, often referred to as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, is considered the “father of English literature, or the “father of English poetry”. Chaucer was buried as a first English literary...

Gerard Manley Hopkins | Biography

July 12, 2026

Gerard Manley Hopkins was among a few individual innovators whose technical experiments and new approach to poetic expression were the result of new imaginative needs; but he was virtually unknown to his generation and had...

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes | Biography

July 12, 2026

Ted Hughes was born on 17th August 1930 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. His father, William Hughes had fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula in April 1915. William Hughes was one of the only seventeen survivors of...

Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray | Biography

July 11, 2026

Thomas Gray was born on 26 December 1716 as the fifth child to Philip Gray and Dorothy Antrobus in Cornhill, London. He was a poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His...

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath | Biography

July 11, 2026

Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, is an American poet, whose work is known for its savage imagery and themes of self-destruction, and for the violent protest of a feminist persona generalizing male as...

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson | Biography

July 11, 2026

Emily Dickinson a very sensitive lyrical poet was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a well-known family. For one year she attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now College), in nearby South Hadley, then withdrew and returned...