After Apple Picking was written and published in 1914 in North of Boston. It is one of the remarkable nature-poems of Frost written in 42 lines. It is written in the first person and rich in symbolism.
Christabel is an unfinished gothic ballad written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was finished in two years: first part in 1797 and second part in 1800 which was published in 1816 Christabel; Kubla Khan, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep. The story of Christabel is about a central female character of a young lady named Christabel and her encounter with a stranger called Geraldine. She claims to have been kidnaped from her home by a band of rough men.
This poem has been taken from Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. This is a death poem having universal appeal. In this poem the poet has expressed his feeling for the rest of the soul of the dead. It is written for the consolation of the dead. The poet wants to say that a dead person becomes free from all kinds of worldly anxieties. It is full of moral lessons.
Chaucer is the first great painter of character because he is the first great observer of it among English writers, In fact, next to Shakespeare, Chaucer is the greatest delineator of character in English literature. In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer tried to paint faithfully the body and soul of the fourteenth century life. Before The Canterbury Tales we do not know a poem of which the primary aim was to depict and display the truthful spectacle of life.
This is one of the greatest poems of Emily imaginary. The theme of the poem is not the funeral, real or imaginary, but an aberration of the mind, the gradual break-up of rational powers and the final onset of madness. The theme is presented through the medium of the funeral image. Emily Dickinson finds the funeral the saddest experience in human life. She finds in it, therefore, appropriate symbols to evoke the image of decay of the mind. The poem has richly symbolic vocabulary.
The Sick Rose was first published in William Blake's poetry collections Songs of Experience in 1794. This poem is one of the inexplicable poems in English literature because of its precise meaning which is difficult to draw a fix meaning. There are many possibilities of different interpretations of the analysis of The Sick Rose.
Digging by Seamus Heaney was first published in 1966 in his poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist. He deals with the themes of root consciousness and respect to the ancestors in this poem.
Naming of Parts written in 1942 by an English poet Henry Reed is a war poem written during the Second World War. It has five stanzas and is a fine lyric poem where the new recruit is being taught to operate a rifle, but at the same time is being distracted by the outer beauty of the springtime. The two distinct speakers in the poem; one the strict instructor and the other new sensitive recruit, go side by side presenting their views on war and normal life.
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, a significant modern black voice in poetry, is a 14 lined unrhymed poem which articulates the father-son relationship. It describes a child's memory about his father in his childhood days and his regrets on treating his father indifferently and coldly responding to his love languages.
Canal Bank Walk was written by Patrick Kavanagh immediately after his recovery from the lung cancer in which he had a surgery to remove his lungs in 1955. Since this time period, his poetry has changed the tract from criticism and frustration to the praise of the life and nature. A sense of enjoyment and wonder can be seen in his poetry after the surgery. This particular poem too deals with theme of renewal and recovery. It is in a combined sonnet form that is to say he combined both Shakespearean and Petrarchan form.