It was the famous Romantic poet John Keats who composed the popular poem Ode to a Nightingale which is the longest ode among his other odes such as Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode on Indolence, Ode on Melancholy, and Ode to Psyche. Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale in the spring of 1819 (at …
About the Poem Anthem for the Doomed Youth The famous English war poet Wilfred Owen wrote the poem/sonnet Anthem for Doomed Youth in 1917 when he was in the hospital and recovering from injuries as well as trauma resulting from his military service during Ist World War This sonnet is a lamentation on the death …
About Ozymandias It was P. B. Shelley who wrote the sonnet Ozymandias Actually, the Romantic poet composed this poem in the year 1817 as a part of a poetry contest with a friend. But, the sonnet was first published in 1818 in The Examiner of London under the poet’s pen name Glirastes As far as …
About the poem Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan is regarded as one of the greatest poems According to Coleridge, it is a strange as well as a hallucinatory poem; he composed it shortly after waking up from an opium-influenced dream in the year of 1797 As far as the first part of this …
About the poem The Solitary Reaper The Solitary Reaper is a popular lyric poem written by William Wordsworth who was the pioneer of English Poetry This poem was originally composed on 5th November 1805 and first published in the year 1807 In fact, William Wordsworth’s trip to Scotland in 1803 with his sister Dorothy inspired …
O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ …
About the poem The Darkling Thrush The Darkling Thrush is a famous and important poem by Thomas Hardy. Hardy wrote this poem in the year of December 1900 Here, in this poem, the poet/speaker reflected on: (I) the end of the nineteenth (19th) century (II) the state of Western civilization as well It (this poem) …
A Regret Over the Failure of Love This poem depicts the passing away of the love which the poet and his beloved had at one time felt for each other. The memory of a love, which has come to an end, is always bitter but it has its sweetness also. In this poem, it is …
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Epic Poem Definition The word “epic’ derived from Greek ‘epikos’ (meaning a narrative poem) brings to our mind’s eye the images of something big magnificent and larger than life. Forms of Poetry Epic Poem Epic Poem meaning Narrative poem Examples Paradise Lost Joseph T. Shipley explains it as follows “An epic is a narrative poem …
Poem The thought Fox Poet Ted Hughes collection of “The Hawk in the Rain’. ‘The Thought Fox‘ has often been acknowledged as one of the most complete and artistic poems of Ted Hughes. This poem of Ted Hughes is in the first collection of poems entitled “The Hawk in the Rain’. In other words, we can say …
