This song is seventeenth-century English poem and this can be justified from the use of archaic words- whither, do stray, cloth haste, unto etc. It is not difficult to understand that this poem is a song, sung for a beloved by a lover. Introduction of the second person pronoun, and the references to beauty and various human attributes indicate that it is a, “love poem".
In the beginning, the speaker surprises us by asking us not to demand answers to such questions from his side. The questions are at once childish as well as philosophical. As we move to the third line of each stanza, we immediately understand that the answers are self-manifested. The speaker, no doubt a lover, very much knows the answers. His beloved lady is at the center of his attention, and all the things help manifest her beauty and power.
This poem is an emotional expression of love and appreciation an African maiden by a passionate young African boy. The situation in the poem is easy to grasp: the impetuous youth seems to have met the girl for whom he is crazy, and here he is picturing her in his mind and living to find appropriate words to describe her and express his feelings of love and appreciation towards her.
This Amharic poem is a translation from the traditional language of the ancient Christian kingdom or Ethiopia. All the comparisons that we read come from the realities of the poet's own African background. At the first glance, we see that the poem is simple, straightforward, direct, and familiar with the theme of love.
The speaker addresses the beloved and says that she is the lime (a tree with smooth heart-shaped leaves and fragrant yellow flowers) of the forest. She is honey among the rocks. She is the lemon of the cloister. She is grape in the savannah (treeless grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions). Her hip is, so small that, it can he enclosed by one hand.
The poem begins on the real plane: 'I have done it again'. Sylvia Plath had made another attempt at suicide, after ten years of a previous one. Then she goes on to describe the situation, focusing especially on her body first.
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath is written in the explosive productivity of the last months of Sylvia Plath's life and published posthumously in Ariel (1965), this poem is both a promise and a curse. The poem articulates the furious despair necessary to commit suicide, combining the need to get out of life with the energy to act on that need.
Ariel is the title poem in the collection Ariel that Plath published in the year before she finally committed a 'successful' suicide. In the canon of Sylvia's work, "Ariel is supreme, a quintessential statement of all that had meaning for her".
The poem Ariel by Sylvia Plath begins with a faintly recognizable narration of the incident of riding the horse; we get the impressions that the rider has probably gone to the horse stable and while just trying to ride, the horse scampers with the girl clinging on to its neck.
The poem 'Metaphors' is by a modern poet Sylvia Plath. It is about the speaker's pregnancy. This is a nine-line poem with nine syllables and nine title letters METAPHORS. The speaker of the poem feels herself to be a walking riddle, posing a question that awaits solution: what a person is she carrying?