The poem Dream Variations by Langston Hughes is a nostalgic lyric which poignantly expresses the singer’s wish for a carefree life away from color persecution and racial discrimination. The title of the poem suggests Hughes’s main theme of the Afro-American dream. This poem is notable for its musical changes.
Ballad of the Landlord is one of the outstanding poems of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes in 1940. The epoch of 1940s is an era of inhuman discrimination to the people of African roots. Racism and discrimination are the major themes in this poem that the poet Hughes wants to cater.
The poem Afro American Fragment by Langston Hughes is an expression of longing for home, which is in the community of the blacks. The poet’s forefathers were brought into America from their homeland, Africa, hundreds of years age. Only history books and their songs remind him of their past. He can’t speak even their language. He has to speak the un-Negro tongue, that is, English.
The poem The Mad Gardener's Song by Lewis Carroll contains the several disjointed stanzas which have a stupid mad logic as a common factor. The first line of each stanza begins with “He thought he saw….” And the third line of each stanza with “He looked again, and found it was”. This revised vision leads the persona to a conclusion in the last two lines of each stanza. However, the conclusion does not match the premise from which it is drawn.
The poem Prayer to the Pacific by Leslie Marmon Silko on the surface level describes the poets visit to the Pacific Ocean. But if viewed from the background of Native-American culture, the poem is of cultural importance. It tells us about a ritualistic visit, ritual performance as a myth of origin of Laguna Indians.
In this autobiographical poem The Lunatic, Devkota wears the persona of a lunatic as if it were a mask. Each stanza brings out a different aspect of the speaker’s character, confidence, abnormality, imagination, sensitivity, rebellion, aggression, anger and awful majesty.
The word 'Canonization' means the act or process of changing an ordinary religious person into a saint in Catholic Christian religion. This title suggests that the poet and his beloved will become 'saints of love' in the future: and they will be regarded as saints of true love in the whole world in the future.
The Relic is a poem in which Donne makes fun of the superstitions attached to the 'purely' platonic ideas of love; he also manages to satirize the society's blind prohibition against the attachment between the sexes. The persona addresses his beloved, with whom he has not yet been allowed to be intimate. They have only kissed out of the courtesy at meeting and parting, but not yet otherwise.
Love's Alchemy itself validates the claim of the 'unification of sensibility'. Alchemy was medieval science which aimed at the discovery of the Elixir of life or the philosopher's stone. The Elixir was supposed to be some mysterious substance which could cure disease and prolong life, and a touch of the Philosopher's stone could turn iron into gold. But the Alchemists, despite their lifelong devotion to the search, failed to discover this substance.
Batter my Heart is one of the beautiful religious sonnets of Donne written in a petrarchan verse with the rhyming scheme abbaabba known as octave followed by the rhyme scheme cdccdc known as sestet. The poet here is picturing an afflicted lover of the God who is hurt because he is deviated from the holy path to the sinful path. He urges God to ravish his body and make him chaste.