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In Shakespeare Sonnet 53, the speaker explores the nature of the Divine, as he has examined the nature of his own soul and its relationship to his poetic ability. more...
The speaker in Graves' "Not Dead" is remembering a friend who has died, but the purpose in this remembering is to resurrect the friend. more...
Laurence Binyon's 'For the Fallen'
Laurence Binyon's speaker celebrates the transcendence of the soldiers who have fought so bravely and died for freedom. more...
In sonnet 52, the speaker observes that pleasure is best enjoyed infrequently, as he likens his enjoyment of his own creations to traditionally rare occasions. more...
As in Sonnet 50, this speaker continues the use of the horse metaphor, as he explores the contrast between body and soul. more...
Oscar Wilde is noted more for his plays than for his poems. He was a proponent of "art for art's sake," a kind of precursor to the fragmentation of modernism. more...
The speaker laments the battle between body and soul-the dualism that even his art cannot surmount in times of tribulation and woe. more...
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The assimilation of William Blake's words into modern society has made them so ingrained in our culture that his work often goes unattributed. more...
Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King
By: Mary Hiers
Based on Sir Thomas Malory's 15th century Morte d'Arthur, Victorian Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson fleshes out the characters of Arthur, his knights, and Guinevere. more...
By: Stephen Owen
Elizabeth Rowe became a poet when it was not fashionable for English women to do so. Who was this woman who befriended the Thynnes of Longleat and the poet John Boyle more...
Keats explores ambition and poetry in the context of discussing laziness. While poetry emerges as a powerful impulse for Keats, he finally wishes it away. more...
Voice in T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock
An analysis of the effects of voice in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." A brief look at the effect of voice on the poem's many themes. more...
Beowulf portrays a stark contrast between Paganism and Christianity and was written in the eighth century A.D. It includes passages on fate and human will. more...
Rossetti's The Convent Threshold
Christina Georgina Rossetti's poem is interpreted as an expression of grief over the loss of the Mother. more...
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