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.
Chaucer to Pre-Romantic Poetry
The Garden by Andrew Marvell | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
The Garden by Andrew Marvell is a unique poem which is romantic in its expression, metaphysical in its word-game, and classical in its music. It is romantic because it is about the nature in subject...
Andrew Marvell | Biography
October 16, 2026
Andrew Marvell was a British politician who also belongs to the Metaphysical school of poets; but he was not known like Donne, as a poet during his lifetime. Marvell also belongs to a later age...
In Memory of Radio by Amiri Baraka | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
In Memory of Radio by the most respected and famous African-American poet Amiri Baraka was first published in Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note in 1961. Written in free verse in conversational style, this...
Loveliest of Trees by Alfred Edward Housman | Introduction
October 8, 2026
The speaker in the poem Loveliest of Trees thinks that the cherry is the loveliest among all the trees. Now it is laden with white flowers at the side of the path in the woods....
Loveliest of Trees by Alfred Edward Housman | Summary
October 8, 2026
In the poem’s opening lines; lines one and two, Housman describes the brilliant, natural beauty of a spring day. However, the use of the word “now” and its strong emphasis at the end of the...
Loveliest of Trees by Alfred Edward Housman | Critical Analysis
October 8, 2026
The poem Loveliest of Trees is a romantic poem. The speaker is probably on horse-track in the woods and is facing a lovely cherry tree in full blossom. He is so fascinated by its beauty...
Eight O’Clock by Alfred Edward Housman | Summary and Critical Analysis
October 8, 2026
The protagonist (main character) in this poem stood and heard the bell of the church tower. In the morning the bell was heard all over the town and it reminded the people of their task...
To an Athlete Dying Yong by Alfred Edward Housman | Summary and Critical Analysis
October 8, 2026
When the athlete won the race for the townspeople, they carried him on their shoulders through the town and brought him home. At that time other people were standing by the street clapping their hands...
Alfred Edward Housman | Biography
October 8, 2026
Alfred Edward Housman was born in Shropshire, England. He was a classical scholar, and he taught Latin at the University of London and at Cambridge University. Housman wrote apparently very simple lyrics, but usually kept...
Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred Lord Tennyson | Summary and Analysis
October 7, 2026
Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred Lord Tennyson is an elegy written in the desperate mood at the loss of the poet’s bygone days. The poet is reminded of his past life when his eyes fall...
