Christina Rossetti’s poem, ‘Remember’ foretells the aftermath of her death on her lover, where the poem starts with the imperative verb and the repetition of the title ‘Remember’ to emphasise the human’s posthumous desire to exist after death through memories. Rossetti explores self-effacing love, capturing gestures of love with the conjunction of disruption in this …
The ‘Filling Station’ is a poem halved into two layers of life, where one is the external setting which everyone sees – the grimy and dirty filling station – while the other is the internal setting that you need to look to see – the cared for home. Bishop marks out the love beneath the …
‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’ by Dylan Thomas is a poem about death not holding any power over life because eternal life still exists after death.
To read the poem, click here. ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ symbolises human isolation, specifically human isolation contrived through the ostracising and denouncement of a hunchback, for reasons relating to both his physical deformity and social destitution. Thomas is keen on producing poetry that looks back to his childhood, and the ‘Hunchback’ is another such …
To read the poem, click here. Seamus Heaney produces an ethereal imagery of nature while depicting the life we live in the modern times, being oblivious of the beauty that lies beside us in his poem, ‘Postscript’. Heaney takes a directorial stance to move through different transitions from nature to our human life, often zooming …
Read the Poem ‘Mirror by Sylvia Plath’ I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful‚The eye of a little god, four-cornered.Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.It is pink, with speckles. I have …
To read the poem, click here. While it is rooted deeply in Plath’s personal life, her poem ‘Denouement’ becomes universal in exploring the disillusionment from relationships breaking away and of a family life torn apart. Using an extended metaphor of a circus to present the sceptical view of a marriage for show only by bringing …
Vaughan concocts a creative double meaning in the title of his poem, ‘The World’ where it refers to two kinds of worlds – an earthly world for humans and the eternal world for souls. Both these worlds are visualised by the poet, who looks at eternity as a ring of ‘pure and endless light’ – …
‘The Good Morrow’ rests on the idea of the reflections of an overwhelmed lover waking up to the realization that this night with the partner has been a discovery of life itself and this morning brings a spiritual awakening for him. After drawing a blank on their earlier existence, he negates their separate existence as …
The metaphysical poets wrote of eternal life and of the divine connection between the Man and God through metaphysical images.. Herbert articulates this concentration of the metaphysics in his poem, ‘The Pulley’ which uses the speaking voice of God in the process of making Man, illustrating a concrete imagery with the different characteristics of man …