Romantic & Victorian Poetry
God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins | Summary and Analysis
October 29, 2026
The sonnet God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins stresses the immanence of God. The whole universe is an expression of God’s greatness, but man fails to recognize it. Though the soil is bare and smeared...
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins | Summary and Analysis
October 29, 2026
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a semi-romantic, religious poem dedicated to Christ. It is a usual Hopkinsian sonnet that begins with description of nature and ends in meditation about God and Christ and...
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins | Summary and Analysis
October 29, 2026
Pied Beauty is a curtal sonnet by Gerald Manley Hopkins published posthumously in 1918 though written in 1877. Though most of the Victorian poets deal with the theme of frustration, anxiety, decay, loss of human...
Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins | Summary and Analysis
October 29, 2026
Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins is a modern poem about philosophical definition of human life. It is a dramatic meditative poem since it narrates an event, imagining a philosopher as a speaker in...
September Song by Geoffrey Hill | Summary and Analysis
October 28, 2026
The poem September Song by Geoffrey Hill is an elegy on a ten-year-old Jew child killed in the Nazi concentration camps. The poem is extremely ironical about man’s inhumanity to human beings. In a sense,...
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout by Gary Snyder | Summary and Analysis
October 28, 2026
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout by Gary Snyder is a quiet meditative type of poem in which the persona meditates upon a landscape that he describes. The poem begins like a descriptive poem, but is...
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...
Farewell by Federico Garcia Lorca | Summary and Analysis
October 28, 2026
The poem Farewell presents the condition of the poet who is approaching death or who must be an old person. Farewell is an expression which we use when we leave someone or when we are...
The day came slow-till Five o’clock by Emily Dickinson | Summary and Analysis
October 27, 2026
This poem is one of the beautiful and startling descriptions of a sunrise. The beauty, brilliance and freshness of the sunrise is described in terms of the sparkle and glitter of the rubies, topazes and...
Bring me the sunset in a cup by Emily Dickinson | Summary and Analysis
October 27, 2026
Bring me the sunset in a cup is one of the finest poems on Nature by Emily Dickinson. It is one of the typical poems of Dickinson displaying her approach to nature and its rich,...
