Poems are not puzzles to be cracked. What you are required to do when you write about poetry is to arrive at a genuine and individual personal response to something which is carefully crafted in language.
Poets are masters of language. They choose words more deliberately and consciously than is usual. After all, language is their craft. However, although we cannot all be poets, it is important to realize that what poets do is not alien to us. We are all immersed in language. We all experience the world in language. We all seek self-expression. To express exactly what you mean is not always easy (just as poetry is not always easy), but it is always satisfying and rewarding.
Money Madness of Money Madness According to poet D. H. Lawrence, humans are obsessed with money. The desire for money is a form of insanity. Society has developed an obsession with money. The poet refers to it as collective insanity. This is the poem’s subject. Today, it causes mental anguish Read more…
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Emma Lazarus’s immortal words, “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” may have become indelible in the collective American memory, but they did not arrive there overnight. Indeed, Lazarus’ sonnet to the Statue of Liberty went unnoticed until after Read more…
An Old Woman by Arun Kolatkar About the Poet Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932–2004) was a Marathi and English poet from India. In 1977, he won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for his debut collection of English poems. Kolatkar was one of a generation of post-independence bilingual poets who fused their mother Read more…
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower Introduction The poem ‘Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower’ was written by the great nature poet William Wordsworth in 1799 in Germany. It was first published in 1800 in The Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth wrote five poems about Lucy. It was one of his most well-known poems Read more…
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Summary The popular poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is a great literary work of T.S.Eliot. It was first published in 1915. It is in the form of an interior monologue in which a person expresses his inner thoughts and feelings. the speaker and the listener are Read more…
Night Of The Scorpion Night Of The Scorpion is a famous poem written by a well-known poet Nissim Ezekiel It was first published in his work “The Exact Name” in 1965. It is a narrative poem. The poet describes an incident in which a scorpion bites a lady in this Read more…
I KNOW WHY THE CAGE BIRD SINGS About the poem “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is a free verse written by the American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou is widely regarded as the “Black Woman’s Poet Laureate.” Her reflections on the society and the Read more…
My Grandmother’s House by Kamala Das Introduction ‘My Grandmother’s House’ is one of the nostalgic poems first published in Summer in Calcutta. It is nostalgic because it portrays the happy, carefree days of the poetess when she was a child (before her marriage). She yearns for the return of those Read more…
After Apple-Picking ‘After Apple-Picking’ is a deeply sensuous poem, layered with meaning and thought-provoking imagery which appeal to my senses as a reader. The poem sees Frost reflect on a day’s work of harvesting apples, yet it seems to me that like many of Frost’s poems, his work holds a Read more…
Mending Wall ‘Mending Wall’ appears to be about mundane farm work, yet like many of Frost’s poems, the meaning runs much deeper than this. Written in blank verse, unrhymed iambic pentameter, the poem reads like a story and has a casual, relaxed feel to it. The poem describes two farmers Read more…
