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.

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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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

A K Ramanujan's "Of Mothers, Among Other Things"

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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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