Summary of Death The Leveller James Shirley’s “Death the Leveller” is a poem about how good deeds can help people get through the pain of death. James Shirley’s poem “Death the Leveller” is a hauntingly philosophical piece about how death’s sad march crushes the pride and glory of people. It Read more…
Essay on Mangal Panday Mangal Pandey was one of the main actors in the Indian Independence War of 1857 who sparked the spark that, 90 years after the Sepoy Mutiny, led to India’s independence. Generations may not find it remarkable that a country of 130 billion people enjoys freedom, but Read more…
Essay on An Ideal Students for Children in English An ideal student is one who excels in all areas. He is an all-rounder. By all-rounder, we mean someone who excels in school, sports, and household activities. His guiding ideals are discipline, obedience, respect for elders, and hard work. An ideal Read more…
To the Cuckoo by William Wordsworth William Wordsworth’s poem “To the Cuckoo” is a eulogy for the bird. The poet is resting on the grass, immersed in nature when he hears the Cuckoo’s song. Wordsworth labels the bird as cheerful and unaffected by the constraints of industrial life. The bird’s Read more…
Mac Flecknoe by John Dryden Analysis “Mac Flecknoe” is one of the most well-known mock-heroic verses in English literature. In it, Dryden challenges his former friend Thomas Shadwell for claiming to be the true heir of Richard Flecknoe, a recently deceased dramatist and poet whom Dryden portrays as having long Read more…
A Poison Tree by William Blake Study Guide Summary of the Poem “A Poison Tree” is one of the lesser-known of William Blake’s twenty-six Songs of Experience poems, which also include “The Tyger,” “Ah, Sun-flower,” and “London.” The companion volume to Blake’s Songs of Innocence, released in 1789, is Songs Read more…
Ulysses – Summary and Analysis Ulysses (Odysseus) declares that it is pointless for him to sit at home “by this still hearth” with his old wife, bestowing gifts and punishments on the anonymous masses that reside in his country. Still speaking to himself, he declares that he “cannot rest from Read more…
Dover Beach by Mathew Arnold About the Poem “Dover Beach” is a lyric poem written by English poet Matthew Arnold. It was initially published in 1867 in the anthology New Poems, but surviving notes indicate that it was written as early as 1849. The most likely year is 1851. This Read more…
Second Coming by W. B. Yeats About the poem. The poem The Second Coming by W.B.Yeats is regarded as one of his greatest masterpieces. It was written by the poet just a month before A Prayer For My Daughter in 1919. The poet was motivated to write it by the Read more…
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a poem composed by John Keats, an English Romantic poet, and first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts in May 1819. “Ode on Indolence,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” and “Ode to Read more…
