15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “Abou Ben Adhem” by James Henry Leigh Hunt

Literature
Abou Ben Adhem is a poem that has been portrayed the heavenly feelings of a devotee or a strong believer. This poem clearly explains that the poet who addresses himself as Abou Adhem is a strong believer in God. He believed that not only loving God, but also loving people who believed in God is great.As a boy Hunt was an admirer of Thomas Grey and William Collins and tried imitating them in many ways. Since he had difficulties in speech, which was cured later, he could not make it to the university. He made a mark in the English literature with the publication of Story of Rimini in 1816.In this poem, it shows that when Adhem sees an angel in his room one night, he was not frightened or…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Short Summary of “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

Career
‘The Road Not Taken’ is written by one of the famous poet, Robert Frost. Robert was an American poet and he is well known for depicting rural life situations into poetic forms. He has been awarded several times for his works, including the ‘Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.’.His first poem was ‘My Butterfly’ which was published in 1894. Later in the year 1of 915, Frost started his career as a writer and never had to turn back. Along with his poetry, he did teaching in American schools. Robert Frost Image Source: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Jb_modern_frost_2_e.jpgFrost is an exceptional writer. He had an extraordinary talent to express the actions of ordinary men in their actual form so much that in some of his poems, you could understand so well what the world seemed to a…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “The Red Wheelbarrow”

Emotions
William Carlos Williams was basically a medical practitioner and a pediatrician. He was an American poet who portrayed his poems with modernism and imagism.Apart from poem, he also wrote short stories, novels, plays and essays. He was a successful Writer and Doctor. He was a good observant and could put down words of nature in simple language. He always preferred to observe the small things and loved to prove that, poems are not from imagination, but could be written about simple things in simple Language.The Red Wheelbarrow is one such poem, that has only 8 lines and at the first read, the reader get confused as to what the poem is being linked to. This was one among his last works of his imagist movements. His poems never told any…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “I Remember, I Remember” by Thomas Hood

Family Members
Thomas Hood was a British poet and humorist. Hood was particularly fond of making practical jokes to his family members, which he enjoyed and one among those were described in one of his daughter’s writings “Memorials of Thomas Hood”.Hood later on started a magazine on his own, for which he had assistance from many men in literary, but was sustained due his own activity. Even though was sick in bed, he continued his work in poetry which were all well known.Since his health was not in condition, a number of his friends made applications to Sir Robert Peel to consider Hood’s name in the list of literary men who receive pension from the British State. As Peel was a great admirer of Hood’s work, the pension was granted and it…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “Growing Old” by Matthew Arnold

Essays
“Growing Old” as the name says is a poem where Arnold beautifully explains how it feels when one grows old. In the beginning of the poem, he gives a wonderful question, ‘How does it feel to grow old?’ He just puts in simple words asking whether it is just loosing beauty, or whether it is loosing the luster of the eye or just loosing the looks? Growing old is far beyond all these is what he says.In the second stanza he asks a few questions which gets related to the internal aging, when compared to the first which says about the external looks. Here he asks whether aging is about the feel of loosing our strength, or is it to feel that each of our limbs getting stiffer and not…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “Adventures of Isabel” by Ogden Nash

Poems
Ogden Nash’s full name is Frederic Ogden Nash, who was an American poet, well known for his light verse. He was known as the country’s best known producer of humorous poetry. Nash wrote about 500 pieces of comic verse and the best of his publications was during the period 1931 to 1972.His first publications of poems were in 1931, which earned him his National recognition. Nash was well known for surprising, pun like rhymes, sometimes words deliberately misspelled for a comic effect. Nash was a baseball fan and he wrote a poem listing baseball immortals.“The Adventures of Isabel” is a poem that reflects the courage of a little girl, no matter what hurdles came her way. In the first few lines, it says that, the girl was frightened by a…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Short Summary of “Talking Turkeys” by Benjamin Zephaniah

Business
The poem Talking Turkeys has a beautiful message that is being passed on to all humankind regarding animal killing and it has been said in simple conversation mode. In this poem, Zephaniah has excellently conveyed the message that all living beings to feel the pain and agony in the same frequency and we as humans never try to see or understand how it is when it comes to animals and occasions.In this poem, it is said about Christmas time and how turkeys are considered to be a main course for the season. However, from the turkey’s point of view is what the poet has said all about. Just like us, even they have families (And every turkey has a MUM – Line 4) and they too would like to have…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “The Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke

Sculpture
Rainer Maria Rilke is considered as one among the most significant poets in the German language. Rilke was a Bohemian–Austrian poet. He did not have a happy childhood and he was later on made to join a military academy following his parents’ separation. But he did not complete his studies from there as he had to leave due to his illness.During the period 1902-1910, is when Rilke had a transformation, when he started to become deeply involved in the sculpture of Rodin. Rodin taught him the value of objective observation and from this Rilke developed a change in his poetic style from the subjective and broken language into something new to the European style.“The Panther” depicts the picture of a panther being locked in a cage and is not able…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Summary of “The Brook” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Essays
Alfred Lord Tennyson was one among the most popular British Poets. He was excellent in writing short lyrics. Tennyson wrote poem right from his teens along with his two elder brothers and it was locally published when Alfred was seventeen.In 1833 he published his second book, which received a lot of criticism and which discouraged Tennyson and made him stay away for more than ten years from another publication.Tennyson used a wide range of subject matter for his poetry which ranged from medieval legends to classical myths, from observation from nature to domestic situations. He was a craftsman, who polished his manuscripts according to time, which very few other poets did. He experimented in adapting the quantitative meters of Greek and Latin poetry into English.The Brook is a poem that…
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15Sep 2018 by admin

Short Summary of “Daddy Fell into the Pond” By Alfred Noyes

Comedy
Alfred Noyes was an English poet. He published his first book of poems in 1902 and in the years from 1903 to 1913 he published another five more volumes of his poetry.However, Noyes is often portrayed by hostile critics as a loyalist and militarist. It was during the World War I that Noyes published his anti-war poem ‘ The Wine Press’ and have received many critics by famous poets at that time. His all time best anti-war poem is ‘The Victory Ball’ was published in 1920 in The Saturday Evening Post.In 1929, Noyes published his first of the three novels,’ The Return of the Scare-Crow’ which is a light hearted story which involves adventure, Comedy and lampoon. It was in 1952, in the book for children by Noyes, he wrote…
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