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...
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,...
I like a look of Agony by Emily Dickinson | Summary and Analysis
October 27, 2026
This small poem tells us about the agonized looks of a sufferer and finally about the agony of death. The look of agony is real because it cannot be imitated. On the contrary, men may...
To fight aloud, is very brave by Emily Dickinson | Summary and Analysis
October 27, 2026
Emily Dickinson describes the predicament of man in terms of the fight. The images in the poem are from war. Emily Dickinson’s tragic sense is vividly reflected in the poem. The poet celebrates the heroism...
There’s a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson | Summary and Analysis
October 27, 2026
The poem describes the slant rays of light in a winter afternoon. Winter symbolizes death and ‘afternoon’ further stands for death. So, the situation presented in the poem is that of a speaker contemplating the...
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson | Summary and Analysis
October 27, 2026
This poem is about the dead buried in the grave. The dead are described as the meek members of the resurrection” sleeping safe in their graves, which are described as ‘alabaster chambers’. They remain there...
