Summary

Here you will find summary and analysis of popular poems, novels, plays, and short stories.

• A Baker from Goa – Summary
• A Bicycle in Good Repair – Summary
• A Christmas Carol – Summary
• A Cup of Tea – Summary
• A Different Kind of School – Summary
• A Game of Chance – Summary
• A Gift of Chappals – Summary
• A Gorilla in the Guest Room – Summary
• A Horse and Two Goats – Summary
• A House is not a Home – Summary
• A House, A Home by Lorraine M. Halli
• A Legend of the Northland by Phoebe Cary
• A Letter to God – Summary
• A Night Never to Be Lost – Summary
• A Pact with the Sun – Summary
• A Photograph by Shirley Toulson
• A Question of Trust – Summary
• A Roadside Stand by Robert Frost
• A Short Monsoon Dairy – Summary
• A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
• A Song for Simeon by T. S. Eliot
• A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day by John Dryden
• A Strange Wrestling Match – Summary
• A Tale of Two Birds – Summary
• A Thing of Beauty by John Keats
• A Tiger in the House – Summary
• A Tiger in the Zoo by Leslie Norris
• A Triumph of Surgery – Summary
• A Truly Beautiful Mind – Summary
• A Visit to Cambridge – Summary
• Albert Einstein at School – Summary
• All for Love by Lord Byron
• Amanda by Robin Klein
• Amoretti, Sonnet 34 by Edmund Spenser
• Amoretti, Sonnet 67 by Edmund Spenser
• An Alien Hand – Summary
• An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum by Stephen Spender
• An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope
• An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla – Summary
• Animals by Walt Whitman
• Another Community – Summary
• Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 1 by Philip Sidney
• Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 15 by Philip Sidney
• Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 27 by Philip Sidney
• Attitude – Summary
• Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich
• B. Wordsworth – Summary
• Beauty by E-Yeh-Shure
• Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory – Summary
• Bholi – Summary
• Birth – Summary
• Black Aeroplane – Summary
• Bringing up Kari – Summary
• Candida – Summary
• Chandni – Summary
• Chief Seattle’s Speech – Summary
• Childhood by Markus Natten
• Children at Work – Summary
• Chivvy by Michael Rosen
• Coorg – Summary
• Dad and the Cat and the Tree by Kit Wright
• Daffodils by William Wordsworth
• Dead Men’s Path by Chinua Achebe – Summary
• Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
• Death of a Salesman – Summary
• Deep Water – Summary
• Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Desert Animals – Summary
• Discovering Tut – Summary
• Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
• Dream Children – Summary
• Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
• Edge by Sylvia Plath
• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
• Emma – Summary
• Engine Trouble – Summary
• Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel
• Evans Tries an O-Level – Summary
• Expert Detectives – Summary
• Fair Play – Summary
• Father to Son by Elizabeth Jennings
• Felix Randal by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
• Fire: Friend and Foe – Summary
• Fog by Carl Sandburg
• Footprints Without Feet – Summary
• For Anne Gregory by W. B. Yeats
• Fritz – Summary
• From the Diary of Anne Frank – Summary
• Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Garden Snake by Muriel L. Sonne
• Genesis by Jayanta Mahapatra
• Geography Lesson by Zulfikar Ghose
• God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Going Out for a Walk – Summary
• Going Places – Summary
• Golu Grows a Nose – Summary
• Gopal and the Hilsa-Fish – Summary
• Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
• Her Hand by Jayanta Mahapatra
• His First Flight – Summary
• Holy Sonnet 2 by John Donne
• How the Camel Got His Hump – Summary
• How the Dog Found Himself a New Master! – Summary
• How to Tell the Wild Animals by Carolyn Wells
• Hymn To The Spirit Of Nature by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• I Cannot Remember My Mother by Rabindranath Tagore
• I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
• I Want Something in a Cage – Summary
• If I Were You – Summary
• In the Kingdom of Fools – Summary
• Indigo by Louis Fischer – Summary
• Iswaran, the Storyteller – Summary
• Jalebis – Summary
• Journey to the End of the Earth – Summary
• Kathmandu – Summary
• Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
• Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
• Landscape of the Soul – Summary
• Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
• Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell
• Lost Spring by Anees Jung – Summary
• Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T. S. Eliot
• Machines and Emotions – Summary
• Madam Rides the Bus – Summary
• Marriage is a Private Affair – Summary
• Meadow Surprises by Louis Phillips
• Memories of Childhood – Summary
• Mijbil the Otter – Summary
• Mother’s Day – Summary
• My Childhood – Summary
• My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
• My Mother at Sixty Six by Kamala Das
• My Struggle for an Education – Summary
• Mystery of the Talking Fan by Maude Rubin
• Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – Summary
• Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
• Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
• Ode on Indolence by John Keats
• Ode on Melancholy by John Keats
• Of Mice and Men – Summary
• Of Revenge – Summary and Analysis
• Of Studies – Summary and Analysis
• Of Truth – Summary and Analysis
• Of Youth and Age – Summary
• Oliver Twist – Summary
• On Being Idle – Summary
• On His Birthday (Sonnet 7) by John Milton
• On His Blindness (Sonnet 19) by John Milton
• On Killing a Tree by Gieve Patel
• On the Art of Living with Others – Summary
• On the Castle of Chillon by Lord Byron
• On the Choice of a Profession – Summary
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying – Summary
• On the Face of It by Susan Hill – Summary
• On The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats
• Packing – Summary
• Palanquin Bearers by Sarojini Naidu
• Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Poets and Pancakes – Summary
• Princess September – Summary
• Prospice by Robert Browning
• Quality – Summary
• Rain on the Roof by Coates Kinney
• Ranga’s Marriage – Summary
• Reach for the Top – Summary
• Rural Manners – Summary
• Salvatore – Summary
• Selected Snobberies – Summary
• Should Wizard Hit Mommy? – Summary
• Silk Road – Summary
• Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare
• Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare
• Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Tansen – Summary
• Taro’s Reward – Summary
• Tea from Assam – Summary
• Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Television by Roald Dahl
• The Accidental Tourist – Summary
• The Address – Summary
• The Adventure – Summary
• The Adventures of Toto – Summary
• The Ailing Planet – Summary
• The Ant and The Cricket
• The Ant and the Grasshopper – Summary
• The Ashes That Made Trees Bloom – Summary
• The Ball Poem by John Berryman
• The Bangle Sellers by Sarojini Naidu
• The Banyan Tree – Summary
• The Battle of the Books – Summary
• The Bear Story – Summary
• The Beggar – Summary
• The Best Christmas Present in the World – Summary
• The Bishop’s Candlesticks by Norman McKinnel – Summary
• The Bond of Love – Summary
• The Book that Saved the Earth – Summary
• The Boy Who Broke the Bank – Summary
• The Brook by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• The Browning Version – Summary
• The Canonization by John Donne
• The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue – Summary
• The Cask of Amontillado – Summary
• The Castaway – Summary
• The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
• The Chinese Statue – Summary
• The Cold Within by James Patrick Kinney
• The Comet I – Summary
• The Comet II – Summary
• The Cop and the Anthem – Summary
• The Desert – Summary
• The Duchess of Malfi – Summary
• The Duck and the Kangaroo by Edward Lear
• The Ecstasy by John Donne
• The Enemy – Summary
• The Fight – Summary
• The Friendly Mongoose – Summary
• The Fun They Had – Summary
• The Ghat of the Only World – Summary
• The Ghosts of Vasu Master – Summary
• The Gift of the Magi – Summary
• The Glimpse of the Past – Summary
• The Good Morrow by John Donne
• The Great Stone Face I – Summary
• The Great Stone Face II – Summary
• The Hack Driver – Summary
• The Happy Prince – Summary
• The Heart of the Tree by Henry Cuyler Bunner
• The Hundred Dresses I, II – Summary
• The Importance of Being Earnest – Summary
• The Interview – Summary
• The Invention of Vita-Wonk – Summary
• The Invisible Man – Summary
• The Kite by Harry Behn
• The Laburnum Top by Ted Hughes
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats
• The Last Bargain by Rabindranath Tagore
• The Last Leaf – Summary
• The Last Lesson – Summary
• The Last Ride Together by Robert Browning
• The Limits of Human Power – Summary
• The Little Girl – Summary
• The Lost Child – Summary
• The Making of a Scientist – Summary
• The Merchant of Venice – Summary
• The Midnight Visitor – Summary
• The Missing Mail – Summary
• The Monkey and the Crocodile – Summary
• The Mother of a Traitor – Summary
• The Necklace – Summary
• The Obligation To Endure – Summary
• The Old-Clock Shop – Summary
• The Open Window – Summary
• The Patriot by Robert Browning
• The Portrait of a Lady – Summary
• The Proposal by Anton Chekhov – Summary
• The Quarrel by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Rattrap – Summary
• The Rebel by D. J. Enright
• The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
• The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
• The Roots of Honour – Summary
• The School Boy by William Blake
• The Selfish Giant – Summary
• The Sermon at Benares – Summary
• The Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare
• The Shed by Frank Flynn
• The Shepherd’s Treasure – Summary
• The Singing Lesson – Summary
• The Skipping Shoes – Summary
• The Snake and the Mirror – Summary
• The Snake Trying by W.W.E. Ross
• The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth
• The Sound Machine – Summary
• The Sound of Music – Summary
• The Spectator Club – Summary
• The Squirrel by Mildred Bowers Armstrong
• The Story of an Hour – Summary
• The Story of Cricket – Summary
• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse – Summary
• The Summit Within – Summary
• The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash
• The Tale of Melon City by Vikram Seth
• The Talking Plough – Summary
• The Tempest – Summary
• The Thief’s Story – Summary
• The Third Level – Summary
• The Tiger King by Kalki – Summary
• The Tiny Teacher – Summary
• The Treasure Within – Summary
• The Trees by Adrienne Rich
• The Tsunami – Summary
• The Voice of the Rain by Walt Whitman
• The Woman on Platform 8 by Ruskin Bond – Summary
• The Wonder Called Sleep – Summary
• The Wonderful Words by Mary O’ Neill
• The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
• There Be None of Beauty’s Daughters by Lord Byron
• Things Fall Apart – Summary
• This is Jody’s Fawn – Summary
• Three Questions – Summary
• To a Shade by W. B. Yeats
• To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• To Autumn by John Keats
• To Build a Fire – Summary
• To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
• To Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Tom Jones – Summary
• Train to Pakistan – Summary
• Trees by Shirley Bauer
• Virtue by George Herbert
• Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore
• We’re not Afraid to Die – Summary
• Weathering the Storm in Ersama – Summary
• Westminster Abbey – Summary
• What Happened to the Reptiles – Summary
• What If by Shel Silverstein
• When I Set Out For Lyonnesse by Thomas Hardy
• Where do all the Teachers Go? by Peter Dixon
• Who Did Patrick’S Homework? – Summary
• Who I Am – Summary
• Wind by Subramania Bharati