Category: Poems

The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam is a poem of high divine and spiritual meaning. The beauty and simplicity of this poem is so immaculate that people of all faiths and those who have no faith at all can seek divine solace in it.Omar has used popular metaphors in his passionate praise of wine and love. They are mere symbols of Sufism where wine is the joy of spirit and the love is immense devotion to God.Omar has presented the nectar of divine ecstasy as a delightful alternative that leads to human enlightenment and eradicates human woe permanently. He has pictured the ordinary joys of life for the worldly men are able to compare the mundane pleasures with the superior joys of spiritual life. The literal meaning of the translated verses…

The poem the Tiger is one of the poems from the ‘songs of experience’ collection of poems written by William Blake. The poems main theme pays attention to tiger creator and centers on the creation aspects. The poet compares the fierce, ferocious and brutal tiger to the gentle, frail and adorable lamb and wonders whether they have the same creator. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? The word tiger is emphasized through repetition on the opening of the poem to create rhythm in the poem. The repetition is also meant to draw the interest of the readers. The poet’s description of the tiger shows the poet’s great use of imagery alliteration and metaphors. The tiger is…