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Summary and Analysis of John Donne’s As Due by Many Titles I Resign
Holy Sonnet 2, also known as As Due By Many Titles, is a poem written by John Donne Summary As is proper, by virtue of the many titles that God bears, the poet resigns himself to God. He was first made by and for God. When he fell into wrong ways and thus abused and…
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Summary of Thomas Gray’s Ode on the Spring
Ode on the Spring is a poem written by Thomas Gray. Summary The season of spring has arrived. It is the season when the buds open into flowers, and the year wakes up from its sleep. The nightingale and the cuckoo sing songs which represent the music and harmony of this season. These birds sing…
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Short Analysis of Robert Frost’s Mending Wall
Mending Wall is the opening poem of Robert Frost’s second volume, North of Boston. The poem circles around a stone wall that separates the speaker’s property from his neighbour’s. During the springtime the two meet by the wall and jointly make repairs. The speaker does not see any reason to keep the wall – there…
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Summary of Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress
To His Coy Mistress is a poem written by Andrew Marvell. Summary In this poem, a lover addresses his beloved who refuses to grant him sexual favours on account of her modesty and her sense of honour. The lover says that her coyness or sexual reluctance would have been justified if they had enough space…
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Summary of Alphonse Daudet’s The Last Lesson
The Last Lesson is a short story written by Alphonse Daudet. It deals with the theme of Language imposition and Language loyalty. It is set in the days of the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871, in which France was defeated by Germany (Prussia). The French districts of Alsace and Lorraine were occupied by Germany and the German…
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Summary of W. W. Jacob’s The Monkey’s Paw
The Monkey’s Paw is a short story by author W. W. Jacobs. Summary The story begins on a cold and wet night with a game of chess between Mr. White and his son Herbert, with Mrs. White is knitting by the fire. Mr. White complains about the weather and location of their cottage which is…
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Summary of Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe is a criminal’s account of a crime committed fifty years earlier. A crime for which he was never caught but now confesses. Summary The story begins with Montresor, the narrator of the story, explaining the reason for the crime. According to Montresor, the victim, Fortunato has committed…
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Summary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Summary Kubla Khan, the great oriental king, once ordered that a magnificent pleasure palace be built for him in Xanadu where the sacred river Alph winding its course through immeasurably deep caves ultimately sank into a dark, subterranean sea. So a fertile tract of land,…
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Summary of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery
The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. Short Summary The people of a small village gather in the town square for the annual lottery. They merrily discuss trivial events while waiting for the ceremony to begin. To begin the lottery, the men of each family draws a piece of paper from an…
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Summary of Guy De Maupassant’s The Necklace
The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant is a story of a middle-class lady named Matilda. She was born in a clerk family and was married to a clerk named M Loisel. She was very pretty but was dissatisfied in life because of her ‘poverty’. Once she borrowed a necklace from her friend Madame Forestier and…