I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died by Emily Dickinson: Summary and Critical Analysis

This is another poem on death, less dramatic, but more gruesome than the poem "Because I could not stop for him." The present poem is again an attempt at objectifying death just before it occurs. The poem records the objectified experience of the speaker during the brief period between the last moments of life and cessation of life. The sense of transition from life's last phase to death conveyed by evoking the image of a fly. The fly, ugly and insignificant as it is in life, becomes very significant to the dying person, and therefore becomes central to the poem.

Sat, Nov 09 2013

Renunciation by Emily Dickinson: Summary and Critical Analysis

This poem Renunciation by Emily Dickinson describes a mood of calmness and tranquility. This is a symbolic poem which refers to Christ’s death. Lamb in the poem is very symbolic in the sense that it symbolizes the Christ. The poetess has referred to summer season in this poem. Tranquility prevailed everywhere. It was the most fruitful time for saints. The poetess hoped to achieve solaced to her soul.

Sat, Nov 09 2013

Much Madness is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson: Summary and Critical Analysis

The poem Much Madness is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson can be interpreted as a strong voice of protest against the system that follows the rules of the majority even it is wrong and disregards the minority even if it is right. But for Dickinson it is the truth that is more important than the number of people for or against it. The poem is a strong voice of individuality and personal freedom.

Sat, Nov 09 2013

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas: Summary and Critical Analysis

In the poem Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night the poet clarifies that the poem was an invocation to his dying father. The poet entreats his father to struggle hard against death. The hard struggle has been well implied by the word “rage” and its repetition. At this last moment of death, the poet becomes frustrated and desperate and wishes his father to cure for the wrongs done by him and bless for the good ones. This antithetical expression portrays the tense state of mind of the poet. He again invokes his father not to give but to fight for life.

Mon, Nov 04 2013

The Hunchback in the Park by Dylan Thomas: Summary and Critical Analysis

The Hunchback in the Park is a symbolic poem by Dylan Thomas which is about love, nature and imagination. Thomas uses the imagery of birth, life and death and the psychological metaphors of the womb to create a picture of the psychological life of the artist. Through this poem he explores the life and activities of an artist.

Mon, Nov 04 2013

This Bread I Break by Dylan Thomas: Summary and Critical Analysis

The speaker in the poem 'This Bread I Break' by Dylan Thomas is eating bread and drinking wine. When he thinks seriously he finds that the bread he is eating now was in the form of oat in the past and the wine in the form of grape in a foreign country. But man during the day and wind at night felled the oat and the grape. In the summer the juice of which the wine is made was filled with the grapes and these grapes had made the vines beautiful.

Mon, Nov 04 2013

The Dead Butterfly by Denise Levertov: Summary and Critical Analysis

The poem 'The Dead Butterfly' by Denise Levertov opens with the persona's perception of the color of a butterfly, which is no more white since it radiance has faded into greenish color like that of a stone that turns mossy. (Stone here is a symbol of death).

Mon, Nov 04 2013

Song by Cynthia Zarin: Summary and Critical Analysis

The poem Song by Cynthia Zarin is an imagist and a symbolist poem in which the speaker, obviously a female with multiple responsibilities and worries, are attempting to sing a song. The poem mainly focuses the reader's attention on the intermixture of likes and dislikes.

Mon, Nov 04 2013

For Prodigal Read Generous by Edward Estlin Cummings: Summary and Critical Analysis

In the poem For Prodigal Read Generous poet asks the reader to be generous if she or he wants to understand what is prodigal. Only an unselfish person can give large amounts freely. Similarly, ‘age’ will tell him the value of youth. The old person reminds the reader that he too was young and his youth had already passed and that youth is so short. If the reader knows what mere surprise is, he will understand what a pure miracle is. Miracle is the intense form of surprise. After this, the reader is asked to study other aspects of life.

Mon, Nov 04 2013

my father moved through dooms of love by Edward Estlin Cummings: Summary and Critical Analysis

This poem 'my father moved through dooms of love' by Cummings is an elegy written after the death of the poet's own father, the Reverend Edward Cummings, a Unitarian minister and Harvard university professor. It is a poem about love. The poem does not so much explain it as demonstrate. Not simply recording the ideals of a real man, the poet chooses to embody his own highest ideals in a fictionalized character, describe him in action, and claims a sonship with him which makes clear his own intellectual and spiritual heritage.

Mon, Nov 04 2013