“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” by Emily Dickinson is a poem about death which shows a ghost’s thoughts about what is happening around her. Like most of Dickinson’s poetry, this was first published posthumously. Contrary to common belief,… Continue Reading
“The Mad Gardener’s Song” by Lewis Carroll is a nonsense poem about seeing something and then looking again and seeing something completely different. Like Jabberwocky, the poem is meant to provide humor simply for the purpose of being entertaining. However,… Continue Reading
“The Clod and the Pebble” by William Blake is a song first published in his 1794 collection “Songs of Innocence and of Experience” along with “The Tyger“. This poem is about love, innocence, and experience. It begins with the Clod… Continue Reading
“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou is a lyrical poem originally published in her collection of poems “And Still I Rise” in 1978. This poem, along with “Still I Rise” and the rest of the entire collection, was meant to be… Continue Reading
“High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee, Jr was written on August 18, 1941 only a few months before his death. He wrote this poem after flying to a hight of 33,000 feet in a Spitfire Mk I. He sent the… Continue Reading
“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley was originally published in the 1820 by Charles Ollier as part of “Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems”. The poem was written as a response to… Continue Reading
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson aka Lord Tennyson was originally published on December 9, 1854 in “The Examiner” but underwent several revisions throughout his lifetime. He wrote this poem as a remembrance of… Continue Reading
“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley was originally published on January 11, 1818 in “The Examiner”. There are two poems which were published in 1818 with the same name–this one written by Shelley and another written by Horace Smith that was… Continue Reading
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth is a poem commonly known as “The Daffodils”. Let’s take a moment and go over a summary of the poem and then discuss it through a line-by-line analysis. Summary This poem… Continue Reading
“London, 1802” by William Wordsworth is a poem begging John Milton, who died in 1674, to come back to life. It was first published in “Poems, in Two Volumes” in 1807. Let’s take a look at exactly what Wordsworth says… Continue Reading