Modern & War Poetry
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 Truth the Dead Know by Anne Sexton | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
The Truth the Dead Know is a confessional elegy on the death of the poet’s parents in 1959. Sexton’s mother died in March, due to cancer and father died in June, mainly due to alcoholism....
A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
A Supermarket in California is a poem by American poet Allen Ginsberg first published in Howl and Other Poems in 1956. This poem is a tribute to Walt Whitman in the centennial year of the...
Howl by Allen Ginsberg | Summary and Critical Analysis
October 16, 2026
Howl is a social commentary and revolutionary manifesto of Beats generation. The poem relies on linguistic grandeur, operatic catalogs, obscene references, and rambling digressions. The poem is in elegiac tone; the tone of mourning. Ginsberg...
Chaucer to Pre-Romantic Poetry
The Coronet by Andrew Marvell | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
Marvell’s The Coronet appeals for maintaining the faith upon god and urges to contemplate the deeds of narrow minded belief of putting the crown of thorns on Jesus Christ. A shepherd is a speaker of...
Chaucer to Pre-Romantic Poetry
The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
The poem The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell depicts the Platonic idea of Love as an unfulfilled longing. When the poem commences the speaker is somewhat confused by the discovery of his love being...
Chaucer to Pre-Romantic Poetry
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell | Summary and Analysis
October 16, 2026
If human life were not limited by space and time, the beloved’s coyness would not harm the lover and the beloved. They would sit and plan how to pass their long time. The beloved would...
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...
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...
