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Poetry Analysis: Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”
“Daddy" by Sylvia Plath was penned in October 12, 1962, shortly before her death. The poem was published posthumously in Ariel (1965). In the form of a nursery rhyme, it utilizes the holocaust as an extended metaphor.
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Poetry Analysis: Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice"
Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice", though a small poem, is replete with strong symbolism and therefore has a universal appeal. Harlow Shapley, an American astronomer who taught at Harvard for many years claimed that he inspired the poem. The poem is in smooth iambic meter.
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Literary Analysis: Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall" presents the conflict between myth and rationality, division and distribution, and regionalism and globalization. Penned in blank verse, it was published in the collection North of Boston (1914).
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Poetry Analysis: Robert Frost's "After Apple-Picking"
Robert Frost' s "After Apple-Picking" is one of Frost's frequently anthologized poems. Read an analysis here.
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Literary Analysis: John Donne's "The Canonization"
John Donne's "The Canonization" argues how the lovers will reach the divine status of unworldly saints through their worldly love.
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Analysis of Symbolism in Gabriel Okara's "Once Upon a Time"
The title of Gabriel Okara’s “Once upon a time is itself symbolic. First of all, the poet foregrounds the past in the context of the present through the title. Secondly, though there is a past, it see
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Literary Analysis: Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
The Imagists consider Dickinson the precursor to their poems, as her poems are replete with evocative imagery. Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" is an example.
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Poetry Analysis: Toru Dutt's "Our Casuarina Tree"
The tree in Toru Dutt's "Our Casuarina Tree" stands for the motherland with its giant stature. It is indented with scars that has been inflicted by the past trials and tribulations. The rugged' trunk hints at the antiquity of the culture. The tree...
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Poetry Analysis: Ted Hughes' "The Jaguar"
Ted Hughes' "The Jaguar" is a tribute to the majesty of the animal. The eminence of the jaguar is contrasted against the insignificance of other animals. The apes yawn at their humdrum existence. Their only point of adoration is aimed at the fleas...
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Poetry Analysis: W.H. Auden's "The Shield of Achilles"
W.H.Auden's "The Shield of Achilles" is thematically quite similar to Eliot's "Wasteland" in its representation of a world devoid of principles and ethics that in its march for success has lost the true meaning of life.
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Analysis of the Poem Thom Gunn's "On the Move"
Thom Gunn's "On the Move" is said to be "a sociological footnote of the nineteen fifties". The motorcyclists had become emblematic of reckless vigor and aggressive energy in the East. The subtitle also functions as the epigraph emphasizing the idea...
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Poetry Analysis: Margaret Atwood's "This is a Photograph of Me"
The title of Margaret Atwood's "This is a Photograph of Me" is quite suggestive. The title may give rise to several interpretations. The speaker may want our attention to be drawn to the photograph. The fact that she claims that it is her in the...
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Margaret Atwood's "Journey to the Interior"
Margaret Atwood's "The Journey to the Interior" is a monologue, the apt poetic form for introspection. It is a metaphysical poem with the recurring motif of 'journey' with Atwood that she explores in other works like "Surfacing". The interior...
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Poetry Analysis: Langston Hughes' "Theme for English B"
Langston Hughes penned "Theme for English B" in 1949.The poem is in the imperative. 'English' in the poem is emblematic of comprehensiveness and universality. This analysis exemplifies how the poem is a satire on the system of grading with regard to...