Summary Introduction The poem Happy Insensibility by John Keats is about beauty. But this beauty is not the common one. The poet celebrates the ugliness of beauty (i.e. when it is lost). The poem is divided into three parts. Part 1 In the first part, the poet says to the tree that it is very happy … Read more
Introduction The poem On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer was written by John Keats in 1816 A.D. It is a Petrarchan Sonnet. In this poem, Keats who was a Romantic poet is complementing the works of Homer and Chapman as well. Homer wrote two famous epics, the Iliad and Odyssey. These works were later translated … Read more
Stanza 1 The poem Good Morrow is an aubade or a morning poem or a song. The poet and his beloved have just woken up and they find that something has happened last night that has changed the balance of their relationship. As the poem begins, the poet starts asking rhetorical questions. When he wakes … Read more
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this … Read more
Introduction The poem is one of the five Lucy Poems written by Wordsworth. It is a short ballad with having abab rhyme scheme. The poem was written in 1798 and published in 1800. It describes and appreciates life beyond death. Wordsworth had experienced some harsh realities of life like the French Revolution, the War between … Read more
Introduction The poem Kubla Khan is highly imaginative, in which, after each stanza, the level of imaginations and creativity goes deeper. The poem focuses on the “willing suspension of disbelief” i.e. the reader must quit his rationality in order to understand the creativity of the poem[i]. Kubla Khan – Detailed Summary Stanza 1 – Creativity … Read more
Hum hain iske malik, Hindostan hamara.Pak watan hai qaum ka, jannat se bhi pyara…Ye hai hamari milkiyat, Hindostan hamara.Iski ruhaniyat se roshan hai jag sara… We are its owner, Hindustan is ours.Our nation is sacred, dearer than heavenThe world is aglow with the light of its soulHow old, how new, best of all worldOur very … Read more
Part 1 Zulfikar Ghose says that at the time of independence, the people of Indian sub-continent considered their victory as grand, but the greedy and selfish leaders looked at this newly independent country as a dog sees the residual. Thus the victory achieved by India burnt in the flames as the violence between Hindus and Muslims … Read more
Part 1 Eagles cartwheeled above illuminationsOf Independence Day, the dogs sniffed atThe electric bulbs which sizzled like fatThe tall grass the monsoons left on the mountainsWas aflame like corn in the setting August sunTwo stones collided, sparked. India began to burn. Part 2 At Mahatma Gandhi’ s prayer meeting,Under Ashoka’s wheel on the tricolour,The air … Read more
Introduction Being an Indian, I was unaware of the background history that Alamgir Hashmi has referred to in this poem. I had to make considerable research to go through the tough and confusing words of the poem. Here in this article, I have provided the summary as well as analysis of the poem to make … Read more
