Modern & War Poetry
i sing of Olaf glad and big by Edward Estlin Cummings | Summary and Analysis
October 25, 2026
The poem ‘i sing of Olaf glad and big’ by Cummings is a typical poem based on Cummings’s experience in the army. It is an ironic retelling of the torture and death of a conscientious...
For Prodigal Read Generous by Edward Estlin Cummings | Summary and Analysis
October 25, 2026
In the poem For Prodigal Read Generous poet asks the reader to be generous if she or he wants to understand what is prodigal. Only an unselfish person can give large amounts freely. Similarly, ‘age’...
Buffalo Bill’s by Edward Estlin Cummings | Summary and Analysis
October 25, 2026
Buffalo Bill’s by Cummings plays with more than one possibility of meaning and attitude of the poet towards the subject, the dead hero, Buffalo Bill. In one sense, the poem is an expression of respect...
The Little Girl Saw Her First Troop Parade by Carl Sandburg | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
The Little Girl Saw Her First Troop Parade is a short prose poem shows the bitter reality of war through the innocent perspective of a young girl. When the little girl saw the troop marching,...
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness by Arthur Guiterman | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
The tusks of mastodons fought powerful fights in the past have become the playthings. The sword of Charlemagne the Just, the warring emperor, won him many countries, but now it has rusted. Everyone was afraid...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alden Nowlan | Summary and Analysis
September 26, 2026
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a short ironic modern poem by Alden Nowlan. This poem is simply an experience of the feelings a poet had while writing it. The feelings that the...
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...
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...
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 | 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...
