Dylan
Thomas : Hunchback in the Park
The Hunchback in the Park
is a poem by Dylan Thomas which is about
love, nature and imagination. Thomas
through this poem explores the life
and activities of an artist. He creates
different binary oppositions like the
world of children and the world of adults,
the world of reality and the world of
imagination and the past and the present.
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Philip
Larkin : Whitsun Weddings
The
poem is about the poet’s journey to
London in a train. The day is Whitsun
day on which the British Government
frees marriage taxes for one day. Therefore
the day fascinates people belonging
to lower economic class because they
cannot afford the payment of marriage
taxes on other days. Read More...
Denis
Lavertov :
The
Dead Butterfly
The
poem The Dead Butterfly opens with the
persona’s perception of the color of
a butterfly, which is no more white
since it radiance has faded into greenish
color like that of a stone that turns
mossy. (Stone here is a symbol of death).
The stone was used to build the whole
city. In the garden, there is a presence
of two butterflies. One is dead and
another is alive. Read More...
Robert
Creeley : I Know a Man
The Speaker of this poem is
caught between two conflicting positions:
whether to solve his existential despair
by escaping from the world by buying
a goddamn big car or by paying a greater
attention to what is immediately in
front him. The speaker is suffering
from darkness and he wants to escape
from it, this darkness has been created
for him due to the capitalist &
materialistic word. Read More...
Allen
Ginsberg : Howl
The
poem Howl is in elegiac tone; tone of
mourning. Ginsberg presents the long
list of the activities therefore it
is called catalog technique. The title
of the poem 'Howl' indicates protest
as cry, cry for all exploitation, repression
and subjugation. Poet is asking people
to cry against capitalism, exploitation,
repression and subjugation. Read More...
Amiri
Baraka : The New World Baraka
as a black poet wanted to use poetry
in the act of building consciousness
so that poetry should contribute to
the raising consciousness of Black unification.
Baraka is influenced by Allen Ginsberg;
pioneer of Beat generation. For Beats
when the fundamental rights of people
are violated then unconventional mode
of behavior can be justifiable. So Baraka
too appears to be supporter of Bohemian.
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N.
Scott. Momaday : Headwaters
Headwaters
the title in the poem suggests the current
water which is wild at source and slow
at the plain. This poem depicts the
quest for the root to Native American
people who are subjected to remain under
the control and influence of British
migrated people to America. Root searching
is the main theme of this poetry and
the poet has used the pastoral setting
to indicate the contemporary human situation.
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Margaret
Atwood : This is a photograph of me
In
this poem the speaker is passively exposed
to the photograph. Thematically the
title is in passive, the first sentence
is in passive voice. This is a photo
others have taken of me. This is a history
of me which others have created. The
others are males who are active to make
history of females. When other makes
history of female then there comes the
problem of precision and accuracy. In
patriarchy males are creating women’s
story. Read More...
Seamus
Heaney : Punishment
Seamus
Heaney’s “Punishment” was inspired by
the discovery of a dead body of a young
girl who was believed to be killed on
the charge of adultery. Heaney takes
this discovery as an ancient example
of brutality and links it with the modern
form of brutality which is evident of
Irish rebel’s killing of Irish girls
who marry British soldiers. Read More...
Leslie
Marmon Silko : Prayer to the Pacific
Prayer
to the Pacific on the surface level
describes the poets visit to the Pacific
Ocean. But if viewed from the background
of Native-American culture, the poem
holds a cultural importance. It tells
us about a ritualistic visit, ritual
performance as a myth of origin of Laguna
Indians. The poet narrates her visit
to the ocean from her south-west home.
She engages in the performance of ritual
kneeling down before the Pacific Ocean.
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Rita
Dove : The Bistro Styx
Rita
Dove in the poem “The Bistro Styx” uses
Greek mythology of Demeter and Persephone
in order to depict the troubled relationship
between mother and daughter. To mix-up
both myth & the context of the poem,
the poem is about modern Demeter (mother)
who in her search discovers modern Persephone
(daughter) in the underworld of modern
Paris abducted by the Hades of modern
civilization. Read More...
Roy Campbell
: The Zulu Girl
The Zulu Girl by Roy Campbell focuses
on pitiable plight of African people
who are under domination and exploitation
of European Civilization. It evokes
the context of one particular African
tribe that is “Zulu”. The speaker is
looking at the “sweating gang” for workers
form a high position and demonstrates
the situation of poor African people.
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Randall
Jarrell : Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
This
is the post modern elegy in which the
speaker himself is a mourner of his
death. Beside it, the poem is the criticism
of devastating war. In order to expose
the horror of war the poet employs imagery
of abortion by drawing an analogy between
the Ball Turret of the fighter plane
and womb of mother. He contrasts the
womb of the ball turret & natural
womb of mother. Read More... |
