Text of the Poem | Ode on a Grecian Urn Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the … Read more
The word ‘Metaphysical’ is a philosophical concept used in literature where poets portray the things/ideas that are beyond the depiction of physical existence. Etymologically, there is a combination of two words ‘meta’ and ‘physical in the word “metaphysical”.’ The first word “Meta” means beyond. So metaphysical means beyond physical, beyond the normal and ordinary. The … Read more
Text of the Poem Divine Image To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in their distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is God, our father dear, And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is Man, his child and care. For Mercy has a … Read more
Text of the Poem: A Poison Tree I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I waterd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears: And I sunned it with smiles, And … Read more
Introduction to the Poem After Apple Picking by Robert Frost is one the famous lyrics in English poetry. It was published in 1941 in the second edition of poetry; North of Boston. The poem is in first person where the narrator is the apple-picker. After Apple Picking is a very famous poem for rich symbolism. … Read more
Chaucer depicted a range of religious characters to portray the image of Christianity during that time. During Middle Age, church was in power and all the ecclesiastical characters were dominant in the society. At the same time, there was corruption in the church where these ecclesiastical were involved, but few were struggling for the true … Read more
Text of the Poem The Tiger (The Tiger) Tyger Tyger, burning bright,In the forests of the night;What immortal hand or eye,Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies.Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art,Could twist the … Read more
Introduction to the Poem Mending Wall Mending Wall, a beautiful depiction of human life in the form of poetry, is about the distances that we create, the walls that we build. The walls which overburdens us with the passage of time but we still stick to it, the wall which needs to be broken down. … Read more
Text of the Poem | Go and Catch a Falling Star Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil’s foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy’s stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance … Read more
Introduction to the Poem | “The Painter” The Painter by John Ashbery is a beautiful literary work published is 1956. It is one of the finest pieces of art in English literature. The poem basically describes the communal and traditional beliefs of the society, because of which they cannot accept change and have put restrictions … Read more