It was Leigh Hunt who wrote the poem Abou Ben Adhem. Though this poet is not much famous for his poetry and he is better known for his role in facilitating the work of other poets at the time like P. B. Shelley as well as John Keats, this poem is one of the handfuls … Read more
It was Wilfred Owen who wrote the popular poem 1914. In fact, it is a Petrarchan sonnet about the outbreak of the Ist World War. Wilfred Owen’s poem 1914 is a lamentation of the destructiveness of war. Not only this, it also compares the rise as well as the fall of European or Western civilization … Read more
Church Going is a very famous poem by Philip Larkin which was first published in his first mature poetry collection Less Deceived in 1955. It is known as a thought-provoking poem about religion as well as history. The speaker of Philip Larkin’s poem Church Going casually visits an empty church. It is a place he … Read more
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 … Read more
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’ … Read more
Introduction It was William Blake who composed the lyrical poem ‘London’ that describes hopelessness in the faces of Londoners as well as fear and repression in their voices. It is one of the 27 poems from his ‘Songs of Experience. In terms of structure and form, ‘London’ is a short poem of just four stanzas … Read more
