I Know a Man by Robert Creeley: Summary and Critical Analysis

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 of him. The speaker is suffering from the darkness and he wants to escape from it, this darkness has been created for him due to the capitalist and materialistic world. Although he tries to escape from it he has to get the help from the same capitalist production car, which he pronounces goddamn.

Sun, Nov 17 2013

Oh My Love is Like a Red Red Rose: Robert Burns - Summary and Critical Analysis

The beloved of the speaker in the poem Oh My Love is Like a Red Red Rose by Robert Burns is as beautiful as the red rose newly bloomed in the month of June. She is as sweet as the music played in tune.

Sun, Nov 17 2013

Fra Lippo Lippi by Robert Browning: Analysis

In the poem 'Fra Lippo Lippi', Browning emphasizes the fact that Lippi was one of the first painters to break with formal traditions of ecclesiastical painting which Fra Angelico and Lorenzo Monaco followed. Lippi was the first naturalist and realist in painting, selecting by preference contemporary scenes and figures. This was of course Browning's view of his own position in poetry in the nineteenth century.

Sun, Nov 17 2013

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell: Summary and Critical Analysis

This short poem 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner' by Randall Jarrell 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 the womb of the mother.

Sat, Nov 16 2013

Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Summary and Analysis

The poem Ode Inscribed to W.H. Channing by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a typical poem with all time significance. It is the poet’s answer to the question of whether the poet, thinker and (more generally) the other ‘professionals’ involve and affect politics and how. It was written before the American Civil War when the question of slavery had begun to divide the nation.

Sat, Nov 16 2013

The Panther: Rainer Maria Rilke - Summary and Critical Analysis

The poem The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke depicts the picture of a panther locked in a cage of a zoo. The cage has iron bars and because of being tired he cannot see anything. To him, it looks as though, there are thousands of bars which are confusing his vision. To him, there is no world behind the cage.

Sat, Nov 16 2013

The Indian Burying Ground: Philip Morin Freneau - Summary and Critical Analysis

The Indian Burying Ground is a romantic poem by Philip Morin Freneau that imaginatively analyzes the Native American’s rite of burying the dead in a standing (active) posture as a meaningful act that symbolizes the continued existence of their spirit and influence among the living. The speaker is at one of the burying grounds of the native tribes, thinking over the Indian rite of burying the dead in an upright position.

Sat, Nov 16 2013

The Afterwake by Adrienne Rich: Theme

The Afterwake is the awakening of women in the late twentieth century. The title also suggests that the poem is about the experience and determination of the women after the waking of their consciousness.

Sat, Nov 16 2013

Rich's The Afterwake as a Feminist Poem

The poem The Afterwake is a feminist poem in its theme because it expresses the determination of an exhausted woman to move ahead on her own way with another woman like herself.

Sat, Nov 16 2013

The Afterwake by Adrienne Rich: Summary

In the first stanza the speaker is addressing the patient. She says to him that she has nursed his nerves to rest; but while doing so her own nerves have been roused. That is, she has mentally strained herself. Now she thinks that she has to spend a few bad hours by herself.

Sat, Nov 16 2013