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The Rocking Horse Winner by David Herbert Lawrence | Analysis
October 26, 2026
The Rocking Horse Winner first published in 1926 by D.H. Lawrence is considered to be an example of modernist prose. It is his hatred towards growing consumerism, crass materialism and affection-less parenting style of English...
The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser | A Picture Gallery
October 25, 2026
The Faerie Queene is, in fact, a picture gallery, and Spenser, the poet-painter, has given in it marvelous scenes, palaces caves, fights and journeys that can suitably match any work of a good painter. Spenser,...
The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser | The Idea of Womanhood
October 25, 2026
Spenser’s conception of womanhood is different not only from that prevalent in the Middle Ages, but also from that of his contemporary writers and poets. During the middle ages, the woman was undoubtedly held in...
The New World by Amiri Baraka | Introduction
October 16, 2026
Amiri Baraka forward his radical view in the poem The New World by saying that he wants to dream with purpose the new world as a only real world for Black. Baraka is sure to...
The New World by Amiri Baraka | Summary
October 16, 2026
This beginning of the poem suggests that its setting is one of an evening. The speaker can see the cars stopped beyond the window. He seems to be an inhabitant of the place, an outsider...
Loveliest of Trees by Alfred Edward Housman | Introduction
October 8, 2026
The speaker in the poem Loveliest of Trees thinks that the cherry is the loveliest among all the trees. Now it is laden with white flowers at the side of the path in the woods....
Loveliest of Trees by Alfred Edward Housman | Summary
October 8, 2026
In the poem’s opening lines; lines one and two, Housman describes the brilliant, natural beauty of a spring day. However, the use of the word “now” and its strong emphasis at the end of the...
Victorian Consciousness in The Lotos Eaterss by Alfred Lord Tennyson
October 6, 2026
The Lotos-Eaters, which describes a scene from the Odyssey (c. 800 b.c.e.) in which Odysseus and his men, after a terrible storm, arrive on the shores of the land of the lotos-eaters, is a poem...
The Lotos Eaters by Alfred Lord Tennyson | Summary
October 6, 2026
Ulysses asked his crew (while returning home from the Trojan War) to be courageous because the land was now in sight. He told his men that the next rising wave would carry them to the...
Break Break Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson | Summary
October 5, 2026
The first stanza of the poem Break, Break, Break, by Alfred Lord Tennyson presents the picture of the poet sitting near his friend’s grave on the sea-beach as he says “Break Break, Break, On thy...
