Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Mirror by Sylvia Plath

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The poetess, Sylvia Plath, by making the mirror speak in the poem, ‘Mirror’, gives it life and uses it to explore the theme of change, deca...
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Ode to the West Wind By PB Shelley

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Lines 1 to 5: The poet calls the West Wind wild and the breath of autumn. The unseen wind carries the dead leaves from the trees and spread...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

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I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the ...
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The Noble Nature by Ben Jonson

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It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, ...
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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Snakecharmer by Sylvia Path

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As the gods began one world, and man another, So the snakccharmer begins a snaky sphere With moon-eye, mouth-pipe. He pipes. Pipes gree...

Poetry by Marianne Moore

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I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one...

Enterprise By Nissim Ezekial

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The poem ‘Enterprise’ looks deceptively simple and direct and yet becomes complex as one tries to peel its many layered meanings. The poet ...
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A Walk by Moonlight By Derozio

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Last night — it was a lovely night, And I was very blest — Shall it not be for Memory A happy spo...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

HOLY SONNETS. XIV. - Batter My Heart By John Donne

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Batter My Heart Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Death Be Not Proud - a poem by John Donne

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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Night of the Scorpion

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The narrator, probably the poet himself when he was a small boy, narrates the incident of his mother getting stung by a scorpion one night...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Acknowledgements

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I really need to acknowledge wikipedia and other websites/books that helped me in writing the explanations for the poems. I'm sorry, I...
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

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An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum Far far from gusty waves these children's faces. Like rootless weeds, the hair torn around ...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

My Mother at Sixty-six by Kamala Das

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My Mother at Sixty-six by Kamala Das Driving from my parent's home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother, be...
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Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich

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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen, Bright topaz denizens of a world of green. They do no...
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A Roadside Stand by Robert Frost

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A note: I stopped teaching CBSE 5 years ago and I'm out of touch. So I haven't really worked on the explanations and edited them....
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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Explanation for the poem "Curtain"

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A note: I stopped teaching CBSE 5 years ago and I'm out of touch. So I haven't really worked on the explanations and edited them. ...
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Explanation "To Autumn" by John Keats

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A note: I stopped teaching CBSE 5 years ago and I'm out of touch. So I haven't really worked on the explanations and edited them....
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Explanation for "Ars Poetica" by Archibald Macleish

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Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit Dumb As old medallions to the thumb Silent as the sleeve-w...
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Explanation for "Survivors" by Sassoon

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Survivors No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk. Of course they’re ‘...
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