A Musical Instrument, the poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning begins with a question as the great god Pan, the god of Pastures is seen by the riverside in the rising violent mood. The answer lies in the title of the poem itself as it contains a symbolic meaning of the whole poem which holds the myth behind.
Thanatopsis is a popular poem by William Cullen Bryant which means view on the death in Greek. The author is trying to comfort others' fears of death. This poem speaks of the love of Nature, which comforts us in life and also in death. We come from dust, we dance on the earth for a minute, like snowflakes falling from the sky to be absorbed and become part of the earth. We will be dead longer than we were ever alive.
Casabianca was first published in 1826 which is also popularly known as 'The Boy stood on the fire Burning Deck'. This poem is about the actual incident that happened in 1798 during the Battle of the Nile where Casablanca, a 12-year old boy, the son of Luce Julien Joseph was the commander of a warship.
Joanna Baillie's poem Song: Woo'd and Married and A is based on the marriage tradition. She questions male romanticism although indirectly. The central character of the poem, the bride complains that she is poor and poverty has become the cause of her sorrow.
Phillis Wheatley was brought to America from Africa at the age of eight. She uses that event and her experience in America as the subject matter of her poem. Therefore, this poem has autobiographical component.
Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox is a mock eclogue by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Eclogues are poems on pastoral subjects in a classical style, but the town eclogues are mock eclogues which parodies the original meaning of the eclogues and presents a newer version for the city dwellers. Montagu compares the beautiful people of London Court's society with the innocent people of pastoral lands.
Adam Posed is based on the myth of Adam and his name giving capacity. By the grace of the god, he was the namer of the universe. The God gave him an identity conferring capacity. But the title of the poem is Adam Posed where pose means ‘pause’ that comes from Latin ‘pausa’. In the poem Adam Posed, Adam is definitely paused when he sees a new feminine being in the Garden of Eden.
On Her Loving Two Equally by Aphra Behn was first formally published in 1682 in 'The False Count' under the title How Strangely does my Passion grow. This poem is about a woman who is divided equally between the love of two lovers and her indecisive nature.
The speaker says they have no wide open land to cut a big sun in the evening. Everywhere the eye accepts encroaching horizon unwillingly. The eye surrenders itself to the Cyclops's eye of a small lake in the mountain. Their unfenced country is a bog that keeps crusting between the sights of the sun.
'To Althea, From Prison' is written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. This is his one of the best known romantic poems which is especially famous for its final stanza's first line; 'Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.'