Poem

D.G. Rossetti's poem The Blessed Damozel depicts the intense yearning of two young lovers for each other. They were separated by death. The lady was dead and taken to heaven.…

Matthew Arnold, a Victorian intellectual, though known more as a critical celebrity has to his credit some well-reputed poems, including The Scholar Gipsy, Thyrsis and Dover Beach. All those poems bear out his attitude…

...for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help…

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey or simply Tintern Abbey is, like William Wordsworth’s The Prelude, a sort of poetical autobiography. Of course, this is no total autobiography of the poet’s life…

Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. This is the concluding part of W.B. Yeats’s patriotic poem Easter 1916. After paying his eulogy to the great Irish…

W.B. Yeats was intimately connected with the freedom movement in Ireland, and he was, as such, in close kinship with a number of Irish political leaders. His political interest was…

William Blake’s famous poem The Tyger, taken from his volume of poems Songs of Experience, presents a child’s experience of and reaction to the sight of the tiger, a mighty and ferocious…