Musee des Beaux Arts by W.H.Auden: Analysis and Critical Appreciation
Musee des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden is a representative modern poem that focuses on the significance and condition of human suffering. While visiting a museum of fine arts, Auden reflects on the content of some of the Renaissance paintings and tries to relate the underlying philosophy to the condition of modern existence. In […]
Sailing to Byzantium: 6 Prominent Symbols
Symbols in “Sailing to Byzantium” by W.B.Yeats are best understood in terms of the ways in which Yeats negotiated with the anxieties of both personal and social implications of modernism. The prominent symbols help to add multiple dimensions to the poem, enriching the central theme of quest for immortality. Six of the most important symbols […]
What is Kubla Khan by Coleridge Actually About?
Kubla Khan by S.T.Coleridge is a poem that has been interpreted in a thousand different ways. Critics have analysed every word and every line only to make the readers more confused about the real message of the poem. Yes, there is a simple straightforward message right on our faces which we tend to lose sight […]
Analysing Sonnet 73: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Sonnet: Introduction Sonnets are invariably personal. Intense subjectivity is found to form a key character in sonnet writing. Regarding the personal character of Shakespeare’s sonnets, there is, no doubt, a host of controversies, yet their subjective notes are neither ignorable nor disputable. In some of them, Shakespeare’s personal moods and feelings are remarkably intense […]
Dover Beach as a Victorian Poem
Dover Beach as a Victorian poem illustrates a variety of elements that defines the changing mindscape of the times. Nineteenth Century Hellenism, a romantic fascination for folk tales and legends, and a preference for solitary meditation in evocative surroundings render a distinctive note to Matthew Arnold’s poetry. “Dover Beach” is his attempt to meditate upon […]
Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel: Some Observations
Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel is a powerful, multifaceted metaphor for a journey, an expedition, or a significant human enterprise, which a man dreams of, plans and concretizes but which ultimately ends in disillusionment. The poem becomes a testament of utopian ideas versus mundane matters of life woven into an apt metaphor of pilgrimage. From another […]
Odes by John Keats: Dominant Themes and Images
The odes by John Keats, on the level of superficial reading, may be seen as brilliant rendering of a scene, a season or a mood; the final perfection of English landscape poetry. His urge to establish such a balance is carried out through the trilogy of odes namely “Ode to Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian […]
Innocence and Experience: William Blake’s Concept of Contraries
In his attempt to communicate his essential divine vision, William Blake created a poetic world where images are realized in their individual contexts and the contexts are realized in the unique Imagination of the poet. Blake’s philosophy asserts, more than anything else, the contrariety of systems with regard to human soul and other objects of […]
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A lonely man on the highway broad hitchhiking horse drawn carts, and the toll man stretches out His fingers sharp as darts. “I am just a hitchhiker” “But on my road you ride” “I have no purse”, said hitchhiker “I would kill you if you lied”. The driver of the carriage old came out then […]
Paradise Lost: Significance of the Invocation
John Milton, in his attempt to create an epic presentation of practically the whole act of creation and transgression of Man, amalgamates Christian faith with tremendous aesthetic competency. Following the elementary classical conventions, he does frame his work within an apparent structural boundary, but eventually surpasses it by his imaginative faculty. In the Invocation itself, […]