The rose in William Blake’s The Sick Rose is not just a flower but a conventional symbol of beauty, innocence, purity, and love. For centuries, poets have compared the delicate…
Irony implies the contrast between what is apparent and what is actual. This is a literary device that reveals the grim reality underlying a romantic or attractive façade of a…
Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga?
The epigraph of the poem Marina by T. S. Eliot is taken from Seneca’s tragedy Hercules Furens. The Latin words—“Quis hic locus, quae…
“Goblin Market and Other Poems” is a collection of poetry written by Christina Rossetti and published in 1862. This collection remains one of Rossetti’s most celebrated and influential works. It…
Pearl is a Middle English elegiac poem, a dream vision, and a Christian allegory. Although the poem's authorship remains uncertain, it is widely attributed to the anonymous poet known as…
“The Idiot Boy ” is a poem by William Wordsworth, first published in Lyrical Ballads (1798). This poem is mainly about the idiot son of a poor countrywoman, Betty Foy. Betty’s…
Yarrow Unvisited, along with Yarrow Visited, is one of the most popular and successful poems of William Wordsworth. It is, of course, not given a very high place among Wordsworthian great…
‘Lucy poems’ refer to a group of five poems by William Wordsworth, most of which were written in Germany in the exceptionally cold winter of 1798-9. This group includes ‘She…
Parnassus Plays is the name given to a group of three satiric comedies produced between 1598 and 1602 by students of St John’s College, Cambridge. It consists of The Pilgrimage to Parnassus, The…