Modern & War Poetry/ Synopsis
Modern & War Poetry / Synopsis
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...
Modern & War Poetry / Synopsis
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...
Modern & War Poetry / Synopsis
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...
Modern & War Poetry / Synopsis
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...
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...
Chaucer to Pre-Romantic Poetry
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 | Biography
July 12, 2026
Ted Hughes was born Edward James Hughes in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, England. His father was William Hughes, a carpenter and a veteran of World War I. As a boy, Hughes spent much of his time fishing, hunting, and studying...
Chaucer to Pre-Romantic Poetry
Thomas Gray | Biography
July 11, 2026
Thomas Gray was an English poet, classical scholar and professor at Cambridge University. He was a dominant poetic figure in the mid-eighteenth century and precursor of the Romantic Movement in English poetry. Gray was born...
Poetry Guides / Postmodern & Other Poetry
Sylvia Plath | Biography
July 11, 2026
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her father, Otto, was a German immigrant and a professor of biology specializing in bees, while her mother, Aurelia,...
