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Summary of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written by Thomas Gray. Summary The poem begins by describing the approach of the evening with its darkness and its silence, which is unbroken except for some such sounds, like those of the droning of the beetle, the tinkling of sheep’s bells and the hooting of the owl. This…
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Summary and Analysis of D. H. Lawrence’s Last Lesson of the Afternoon
Last Lesson of the Afternoon is a poem written by D. H. Lawrence. In the poem, Lawrence expresses his personal viewpoint on modern school education through the attitude of the teacher and the indifferent and inattentive behaviour of students. Neither the teacher nor the students are clear about the goal of this system of education.…
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Summary of Percy Shelley’s Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Summary Shelley speaks of the fleeting nature of an unseen Power that pervades this universe. The mysterious influence of this invisible power lies hidden from us, and it manifests itself in various objects of nature with suddenness and uncertainty like the summer wind…
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Summary of Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain! is a poem written by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America. Summary Stanza 1 The first stanza depicts the celebratory mood of the speaker or the sailor as the ship has completed its tedious and long journey. It has braved…
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Summary of Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess
My Last Duchess is a poem written by Robert Browning. Summary In the palace of an Italian Duke, who is the speaker in this short but vivid piece, had come the envoy of a count whose daughter he was negotiating to marry. The Duke was a widower, and taking his guest round the family protrait…
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Summary of William Wordsworth’s Daffodils
Daffodils is a poem written by William Wordsworth. Summary The poet is alone and having nature in mind wandering from one place to another like a cloud that flies over vales and hills with the wind. All of a sudden he sees a large number of golden daffodils which are growing on the bank of…
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Summary of John Keats’ A Thing of Beauty
A Thing of Beauty is written by John Keats. It is an excerpt from his long poem ‘Endymion’. According to the poet, a thing of beauty is a source of joy forever. Summary The poet, John Keats, was a nature-lover who loved beauty in any form. He expresses his love for beautiful objects saying that…
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Summary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Adonais
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats. Summary The poet weeps for dead Adonais and asks us to join him in weeping, though our tears will not recall the dead poet to life. The unfortunate Hour who had the pain of…
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Summary of William Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper
The Solitary Reaper is a poem by William Wordsworth. Summary The poet saw a highland girl. This young girl was in a field. She was all alone. She was reaping the crop and binding it into sheaves. She was also singing a sad song. The sound of her song was echoing in the whole valley.…
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Summary of Ted Hughes’ Hawk Roosting
Hawk Roosting is a poem by Ted Hughes. Summary In this poem, a hawk is imagined as speaking and expressing his own thoughts. The word “roosting” means “resting” or “lost in thought just before falling asleep”. This hawk is comfortably perched in his nest on a high tree, and he is expressing his happy state…