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Motherhood by May Swenson | Summary and Analysis
November 9, 2026
The poem Motherhood by May Swenson gives an elaborate and vividly graphic picture of a mother from the first line to the last. The trick that the speaker is adopting is not to tell who...
Margaret Atwood | Biography
November 9, 2026
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, and critic, whose works often feature women examining their relationships and society. Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of...
This Is a Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood | Summary and Analysis
November 9, 2026
The speaker is passively exposed to the photograph in Atwood’s poem This Is a Photograph of Me. Thematically, the title is in passive, the first sentence is in passive voice. This is a photo others...
Louis Simpson | Biography
November 8, 2026
Louis Simpson was immigrated to the United States from Jamaica at the age of seventeen. He joined the US Army during the Second World War, after which he earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He...
The Inner Part by Louis Simpson | Summary and Analysis
November 8, 2026
When the Americans won the war for the first time in history, they assumed that they were the most important people. Their behaviors changed. The leaders and the most important persons began to wear formal...
Lord Byron | Biography
November 7, 2026
George Gordon Noel, Sixth Baron Byron is known as Lord Byron. Byron was born in London on January 22, 1788, and educated at Harrow School and the University of Cambridge. One of the most important...
Don Juan by Lord Byron | Summary and Analysis
November 7, 2026
The first canto of Don Juan contains basically the introduction to the main character Don Juan, besides some story by way of introducing his parents and his first love affair. Byron, however, manages to expose...
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron | Summary and Analysis
November 7, 2026
She Walks in Beauty is an eighteen line poem written in 1814 and published in 1815. This poem is not a love poem, but a celebration of a woman’s beauty. The speaker never says he...
Louise Bogan | Biography
October 31, 2026
Louise Bogan an American writer was educated at Boston University. She was the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker from 1931 to 1968, and in 1951 published the highly regarded Achievement in American Poetry...
Medusa by Louise Bogan | Summary and Analysis
October 31, 2026
In the poem Medusa the speaker remembers that she had gone into a house in the jungle. She was looking up the sky. Everything was active. The bell was ready to strike and the sun...
