Introduction The End and the Beginning is a poem by the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska. It first appeared in her poetry collection going by the same name in 1993. Known by its Polish name Koniec i pocz?tek, the poem also appeared in Szymborska’s 2001 poetry collection Miracle Fair (2001) and was translated by Joanna Trzeciak … Read more
Introduction Splendour in the Grass is the name attributed to the excerpt written by William Wordsworth. This excerpt appears in Wordsworth famous work Ode:Imitations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, published in 1807 in his work Poems, in Two Volumes. This extract is actually the last twelve lines of the tenth stanza. Along with … Read more
Introduction Atwood explores issues of society, power, and the future in “The City Planners.” In these succinct seven stanzas, she paints a picture of a world destined to collapse and then be recreated. The city planners create crazy streets with well-constructed homes and roadways. The grass doesn’t grow since all of the rooftops face the … Read more
Introduction To a Poor Woman is a poem written by the American modernist poet William Carlos Williams. This poem appears in his poetry collection The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939 which was published in 1951. In this short and simple poem, the poet has captured a singular image of a woman eating a plum. This … Read more
Introduction To a Stranger is a poem written by the American poet, Walt Whitman. The poem first appeared in Whitman’s celebrated anthology Leaves of Grass, published in 1860. This poem is included in Book V of the anthology, which is also labelled as the Calamus, a section containing forty-five poems. In the poem, the speaker … Read more
Introduction One’s Self I Sing is a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman. The poem was released in the fifth edition of Whitman’s masterpiece Leaves of Grass, published in 1871. The poem was initially an “inscription” in the work’s 1867 edition, from where it was revised. All the poems in this anthology, including this … Read more
Introduction Assembly Line is a poem written by Shu Ting, a prominent Chinese modern poet. This poem appears in the poetry collection A Splintered Mirror: Chinese Poetry from the Democracy Movement which was translated by Donald Finkel in English and published in 1991. This anthology is compiled with the works of seven Chinese Misty Poets, … Read more
Introduction The poem is quite lyrical and induces joy in the reader as the poet talks about spring and new opportunities. The poem creates vivid imagery of the spring season and makes us feel about the beauty of nature. This poem also brings attention to the connection between nature and life. About the poet Thomas … Read more
Introduction The poem makes it apparent that despite the speaker’s intense affection for his beloved, time will inevitably pass. Time passes without stopping, as evidenced by the speaker’s continuous writing of his beloved’s name “upon the strand” (or shore), only for the ocean to swiftly sweep it away. The idea of her name vanishing from … Read more
Introduction With its rich use of metaphor, this poem explores the many elements of the human experience by using the stage as a metaphor to build a vivid picture of life as a theatrical production. About the poet Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, explorer, and poet during … Read more
