To read the poem, click here. Dylan Thomas is a prolific poet with a knack in directly addressing the adversities of humankind, which often pertains the prospect of death. ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’ is a poem that reverberates with a resolution of death not holding any power over life, for beyond death still …
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 …
To read the poem, click here. ‘Mirror’ is a poem based on the idea of reflection, both at the outward and the inward self, in which Plath personifies a mirror as the speaking voice to best articulate the theme of self-exploration. There’s two levels of perspective that separate the poem in two stanzas which are …
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 …
To read the poem, click here. Adam Thorpe’s poem is a cross-reference to John Milton’s sonnet, ‘On His Blindness’ with the slight alteration of the pronoun from ‘his’ to ‘her, where in Milton’s poem, he talks about his own experience of being blind while dwelling on a metaphysical aspect in which he directs his poem …
