Roma Shrestha
Roma specialized in analyzing literature from several movements, including Renaissance, Romanticism, New Historicism, Modernism, Postmodernism and Post Colonialism. She has always enjoyed reading and analyzing literature.
James Dickey | Biography
October 31, 2026
James Dickey was one of the most well known and one of the least appreciated authors in America in the mid century; but Dickey’s first love was poetry. And strangely, despite being more popularly known...
The Lifeguard by James Dickey | Summary and Analysis
October 31, 2026
The Lifeguard by James Dickey is a poem that explores the burden of responsibility that every man carries within his mind. On a literal level of the poem, we find a life-guard (a man who...
James Wright | Biography
October 31, 2026
James Arlington Wright was a leading American poet whose work explored varieties of social isolation, despair and death. His early works features are regular meter, an emphasis on rhetoric, and the strong use of rhymes....
A Note Left on Jimmy Leonard’s Shack by James Wright | Summary and Analysis
October 31, 2026
This poem is at one level a simple recounting of the poet’s own childhood experience. The whole poem is the content of a ‘note’ that a boy writes and leaves near a sleeping drunkard whom...
Melodic Trains by John Ashbery | Summary and Analysis
October 31, 2026
In the poem Melodic Trains, the narrator is boarding inside a train. There is a little girl beside him. He can see the scenes and people passing by as the train travels ahead. The journey...
Paradoxes and Oxymorons by John Ashbery | Summary and Analysis
October 31, 2026
Paradoxes and Oxymorons composed by famous postmodern American poet John Ashbery was written in 1979. It was first published in the Times Literary Supplement and later in his collection of poems Shadow Train in 1981....
Brute Images by John Ashbery | Summary and Analysis
October 31, 2026
The poem depicts the harsh reality of society. In this modern contemporary society, people do not care about society, humanity and other’s life. Human society has become so cruel and self-centric that they do not...
Galway Kinnell | Biography
October 28, 2026
Galway Kinnell is an American poet and novelist known for his distinctly ‘personal’ poetic voice. Kinnell’s poetry stresses the importance of daily experience; it also focuses on the physical aspects of existence and illustrates the...
First Song by Galway Kinnell | Summary and Analysis
October 28, 2026
First Song is a typical Kinnell poem in which he tells the story (one incident) of a small boy who finds solace in the music of the frogs croaking in the evening at the city’s...
Federico Garcia Lorca | Biography
October 28, 2026
Federico Garcia Lorca is a Spanish poet and dramatist. His best-known works are his Gypsy Songs, Songs (1927) and The Gypsy Ballads (1928, 1935). However, he is particularly known for intense, poetic tragedies evoking the...
