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Voice Of A PoetThe Walrus And The CarpenterThe poem begins with the Walrus and his companion the carpenter mourning the presence of so much sand on the beach. They cry over it, unable to come up with a good way to get rid of it. As quickly as their tears began they stop and begin speaking with some oysters. These oysters walk with them, although they do not have legs, down the beach. They pause, decide to have a discussion, and then decide to eat. It is at this point that there is a change in the poem and it is revealed that the two tricked the...2023-03-1505 min
Voice Of A PoetThe Kitten At Play By William WordsworthIt plays with the withered leaves that fall down from an old tree. The kitten is playing with leaves in the calm, cold morning on a day in winter. She leaps like a tiger and catches a falling leaf only to let it go and again catch it back as fast as she could.2023-03-1501 min
Voice Of A PoetThe Eagle by Alfred Lord TennysonThis poem was first published in 1851 by author Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1982). Tennyson was greatly affected by writers of the Romantic period (1798-1837), and crafted works that could fit within the genre. This era of art emerged as a response to national conflicts, most notably the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) and the French Revolutionary War (1792-1802). The philosophy of the era was to reimagine the human experience with a childlike and innocent attitude towards the world. It featured the new role of individual thought and personal feeling, emphasizing the subjective experience over the objective whole. This...2023-03-1500 min
Voice Of A PoetThe World Is Too Much With Us“The world is too much with us” is a sonnet by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, is one of the central figures of the English Romantic movement. The poem laments the withering connection between humankind and nature, blaming industrial society for replacing that connection with material pursuits. Wordsworth wrote the poem during the First Industrial Revolution, a period of technological and mechanical innovation spanning the mid 18th to early 19th centuries that thoroughly transformed British life.2023-03-1501 min
Voice Of A PoetStill I Rise By Maya AngelouBroadly speaking, the poem is an assertion of the dignity and resilience of marginalized people in the face of oppression. Because Angelou often wrote about blackness and black womanhood, "Still I Rise" can also be read more specifically as a critique of anti-black racism.2023-03-1502 min
Voice Of A PoetO Captain! My Captain! BY WALT WHITMAN“O Captain! My Captain!” is an elegy written by Walt Whitman in 1865 to commemorate the death of President Abraham Lincoln. It was first published in Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865), a collection of Whitman's poems inspired by the events of the American Civil War.2023-03-1502 min
Voice Of A PoetStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert FrostThe poem was published in 1923 in his volume New Hampshire. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Summary is the story of a writer passing by some woods. The writer of the poem is traveling in the dark through the snow and pauses with his horse near the woods by a neighbor's house to observe the snow falling around him.2023-03-0101 min
Voice Of A PoetHope is the thing with feathers - Emily DickinsonIn the poem, "Hope" is metaphorically transformed into a strong-willed bird that lives within the human soul—and sings its song no matter what. Essentially, the poem seeks to remind readers of the power of hope and how little it requires of people.2023-03-0100 min
Voice Of A PoetFire and Ice by Robert FrostThe Fire and Ice poem talks about two different views of how the world will end, either by fire or ice. It means that the forces of desire and hate equally lead to the destruction of the world.2023-03-0100 min
Voice Of A PoetDaffodils - William WordsworthThe poem was composed in the year 1802. The title of the poem informs about the loneliness of the poet which he faces after the death of his brother. However, the endless view of the golden daffodils in a field across the lake filled him with joy. This view was the greatest gift of nature to him.2023-03-0101 min