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It is human nature to wonder how one will be remembered after one's death. Hardy's speaker dramatizes his speculations in rhetorical questions. more...
Wordsworth's It is a Beauteous Evening
Tranquility engenders the finest thoughts, feelings, and intuitions. Wordsworth's Italian sonnet captures the mood that the poet took as the basis for fine poetry. more...
Breaking her engagement with her fiancé, the speaker in Rossetti's Italian sonnet requests that he keep the pleasant and discard the unpleasant. more...
As General William Tecumseh Sherman averred, "War is hell!" But sometimes facing down hell leads to spiritual awareness unequaled by a conciliatory peace without honor. more...
Hopkins' The Habit of Perfection
Father Hopkins' poem, "The Habit of Perfection," dramatizes the importance of silencing and stilling each of the five senses in order to advance in the spiritual realm. more...
Henry Vaughn's poem appeals to the soul of the devotee who is making the effort to achieve the exalted state of Christ Consciousness. more...
The speaker in Wyatt's most anthologized poem dramatizes the nature of regret after having fallen from favor. more...
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The Bond of Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson
By: Jillian Bost
Arthur Hallam and Alfred Tennyson met in 1829 at Cambridge University when they were eighteen and nineteen. They took to each other instantly and forged a lifelong bond. more...
The Life of Arthur Henry Hallam
By: Jillian Bost
Any story of 19th-century British poet Arthur Henry Hallam is short. He only lived to be twenty-two. But he made an impact on British poetry and Alfred Tennyson forever. more...
Carol Ann Duffy – British Feminist Poet
By: James Parsons
Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's new Poet Laureate, is the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay person to hold the honour in the 341 year history of the role. more...
By: Rosemary Gemmell
Robert Burns is world famous as a farmer and poet of the people, yet a large part of his adventurous life was spent as a respectable government Exciseman. more...
Spike Milligan – Summer Dawn – Have A Nice Day
By: Martin G. Wood
While not fully heavy, the tone of Summer Dawn and Have a Nice Day is more melancholic; proving the old maxim, the best comedy is born of great tragedy. more...
Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Arguably Pope's most famous poem, "The Rape of the Lock" is a satirical and funny mock-epic poem. more...
By: Anya Laurence
He was never physically strong and was mentally unstable at times, yet he wrote some of the most glorious hymns in history. more...
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