English Poetry for Schools

This blog attempts to give explanation for some poems prescribed by schools in India. These explanations are not exhaustive or comprehensive ones. Neither are they the only interpretations/explanations. You can decipher other meanings in them. Please go through the archive. I've aknowledged the sources for the explanations.

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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Mirror by Sylvia Plath

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...

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Snakecharmer by Sylvia Path

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...

Monday, May 24, 2010

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

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...

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Night of the Scorpion

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...

Saturday, September 20, 2008

My Mother at Sixty-six by Kamala Das

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

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Explanation for the poem "Curtain"

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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