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Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson | Summary and Analysis
October 30, 2026
The speaker of this poem belongs to the lower class. When Richard Cory went to the city, the speaker and his friends would look at him. Richard Cory looked a perfect gentleman. He seemed to...
Gerard Manley Hopkins | Biography
October 29, 2026
Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in Essex. In 1863, he entered Oxford University. There, he experienced a spiritual crisis that led him to join the Roman Catholic Church in 1866. Hopkins entered the Jesuit order...
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...
Geoffrey Hill | Biography
October 28, 2026
Geoffrey Hill born in 1932 is an English poet, whose verse mixes fact, fiction, and grave meditations on history. Hill was born in Bromsgrove, England and graduated from Keble College at the University of Oxford...
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,...
Gary Snyder | Biography
October 28, 2026
Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco in 1930. He was raised on a farm, and educated at Reed College. In the early 1950s he worked as a logger, forest-fire lookout, trail-crew worker, carpenter, proofreader,...
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...
