“Nuns Fret Not” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Nuns Fret Not" by William Wordsworth "Nuns Fret Not" by William Wordsworth, first appeared in 1807 as part of ...
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost first appeared in 1923 in ...
“A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of Trees” by A.E. Housman: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of Trees" by A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of Trees" by A.E ...
“Mirror” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, first appeared in 1971 in the posthumous collection Crossing the Water, ...
“Miniver Cheevy” by Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson, first appeared in 1910 in the collection ...
“Demeter” by Carol Ann Duffy: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Demeter" by Carol Ann Duffy "Demeter" by Carol Ann Duffy, first appeared in her acclaimed 1999 poetry collection, The ...
“Medusa” by Carol Ann Duffy: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Medusa" by Carol Ann Duffy "Medusa" by Carol Ann Duffy, first appeared in 1999 as part of her poetry ...
“Mary Had a Little Lamb”: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Mary Had a Little Lamb" "Mary Had a Little Lamb" first appeared in 1830 as part of Sarah Josepha ...
“Eurydice” by Carol Ann Duffy: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Eurydice" by Carol Ann Duffy "Eurydice" by Carol Ann Duffy first appeared in her 1999 poetry collection The World's ...
“Marriage A-la-Mode” by John Dryden: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Marriage A-la-Mode" by John Dryden "Marriage A-la-Mode" by John Dryden first appeared in 1673 as part of a collection ...
“Housewife” by Anne Sexton: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Housewife" by Anne Sexton "Housewife" by Anne Sexton, first appeared in 1962 in her poetry collection All My Pretty ...
“A Song (Ask Me No More)” by Thomas Carew: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Song (Ask Me No More)" by Thomas Carew "A Song (Ask Me No More)" by Thomas Carew first ...
“Marks” by Linda Pastan: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Marks" by Linda Pastan "Marks" by Linda Pastan, first appeared in her 1978 poetry collection, The Five Stages of ...
“Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath "Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath first appeared in 1953 in ...
“Mac Flecknoe” by John Dryden: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Mac Flecknoe" by John Dryden "Mac Flecknoe" by John Dryden, first appeared in 1682 as part of a collection ...
“Love After Love” by Derek Walcott: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott, first appeared in his 1976 poetry collection ...
“Love After Love” by Derek Walcott: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott, first appeared in his 1976 poetry collection ...
“London” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "London" by William Blake "London" by William Blake first appeared in 1794 in his collection Songs of Experience, a ...
“Little Things” by Julia A. Carney: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Little Things" by Julia A. Carney "Little Things" by Julia A. Carney, first appeared in 1845 in her collection ...
“A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first appeared in ...
“Little Miss Muffet” by Mother Goose: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Little Miss Muffet" by Mother Goose "Little Miss Muffet" by Mother Goose, first appeared in 1805 in a collection ...
“Little Bo-Peep” by Mother Goose: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Little Bo-Peep" by Mother Goose "Little Bo-Peep" by Mother Goose first appeared in print around 1805 in the collection ...
“Kitchenette Building” by Gwendolyn Brooks: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Kitchenette Building" by Gwendolyn Brooks "Kitchenette Building" by Gwendolyn Brooks first appeared in 1945 in her debut poetry collection, ...
“Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint” by John Milton: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" by John Milton "Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw My Late ...
“Jack and Jill” (Traditional Nursery Rhyme): A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Jack and Jill" (Traditional Nursery Rhyme) "Jack and Jill," the traditional nursery rhyme, first appeared in 1765 in Mother ...
“Famous” by Naomi Shihab Nye: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye "Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye, first appeared in her 1995 poetry collection, Words Under ...
“Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limón: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón first appeared in ...
“In the Waiting Room” by Elizabeth Bishop: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "In the Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop "In the Waiting Room" by Elizabeth Bishop first appeared in 1976 as ...
“In Memory of W.B. Yeats” by W.H. Auden: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by W.H. Auden "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" by W.H. Auden, first appeared in ...
“In Memoriam A.H.H.” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "In Memoriam A.H.H." by Alfred, Lord Tennyson "In Memoriam A.H.H." by Alfred, Lord Tennyson first appeared in 1850, published ...
“This Is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams first ...
“The House on the Hill” by Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The House on the Hill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson "The House on the Hill" by Edwin Arlington Robinson first ...
“The Death of the Hired Man” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost first ...
“In Blackwater Woods” by Mary Oliver: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver "In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver first appeared in her 1983 collection American ...
“Dusting” by Julia Alvarez: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Dusting" by Julia Alvarez "Dusting" by Julia Alvarez first appeared in her 1996 poetry collection, Homecoming, explores themes of ...
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth first appeared in 1807 in ...
“Hurt Hawks” by Robinson Jeffers: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Hurt Hawks" by Robinson Jeffers "Hurt Hawks" by Robinson Jeffers first appeared in 1928 as part of his collection ...
“A Shropshire Lad LXII” by A.E. Housman: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Shropshire Lad LXII" by A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXII," by A.E. Housman, first appeared in 1896 as ...
“Home is So Sad” by Philip Larkin: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Home is So Sad" by Philip Larkin "Home is So Sad" by Philip Larkin, first appeared in 1964 in ...
“Holding Hands” by Lenore M. Link: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Holding Hands" by Lenore M. Link "Holding Hands" by Lenore M. Link, first appeared in 1987 in her poetry ...
“Hey Diddle Diddle” by Mother Goose: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Hey Diddle Diddle" by Mother Goose "Hey Diddle Diddle" by Mother Goose first appeared in print in 1765 within ...
“Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas, first appeared in 1946 as part of his collection ...
“Brotherhood” by Octavio Paz: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Brotherhood" by Octavio Paz "Brotherhood" by Octavio Paz, first appeared in his 1979 collection, Eagle or Sun?, is brief ...
“Eden Rock” by Charles Causley: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Eden Rock" by Charles Causley "Eden Rock" by Charles Causley, first appeared in his 1988 poetry collection Collected Poems ...
“Before She Died” by Karen Chase: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Before She Died" by Karen Chase "Before She Died" by Karen Chase, first appeared in 1988 as part of ...
“The World” by Henry Vaughan: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The World" by Henry Vaughan "The World" by Henry Vaughan first appeared in his 1650 collection Silex Scintillans, a ...
“Hawk Roosting” by Ted Hughes: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes "Hawk Roosting" by Ted Hughes, first appeared in his 1960 poetry collection Lupercal, explores ...
“Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden "Funeral Blues" by W.H. Auden first appeared in 1936 within The Ascent of F6, ...
“Fugue of Death” by Paul Celan: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Fugue of Death" by Paul Celan "Fugue of Death" by Paul Celan first appeared in 1948 in his collection ...
“Follower” by Seamus Heaney: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Follower" by Seamus Heaney "Follower" by Seamus Heaney first appeared in 1966 as part of his debut collection, Death ...
“Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Before You Were Mine" by Carol Ann Duffy "Before You Were Mine" by Carol Ann Duffy, first appeared in ...
“Father” by Edgar Albert Guest: Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Father" by Edgar Albert Guest "Father" by Edgar Albert Guest, first appeared in his 1916 poetry collection A Heap ...
“Father and Son” by Mary Nagy: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Father and Son" by Mary Nagy "Father and Son" by Mary Nagy, first appeared in her poetry collection published ...
“A Litany in Time of Plague” by Thomas Nashe: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Litany in Time of Plague" by Thomas Nashe "A Litany in Time of Plague" by Thomas Nashe first ...
“Mr. Bleaney” by Philip Larkin: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Mr. Bleaney" by Philip Larkin "Mr. Bleaney" by Philip Larkin first appeared in his 1955 collection, The Less Deceived, ...
“Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti first appeared in 1862 as part of her poetry ...
“When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” by John Keats: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats "When I Have Fears That I ...
“Adieu, Farewell Earth’s Bliss” by Thomas Nashe: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss" by Thomas Nashe "Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss" by Thomas Nashe first appeared in Summer's Last ...
“A Woman’s Last Word” by Robert Browning: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Woman's Last Word" by Robert Browning "A Woman's Last Word" by Robert Browning first appeared in the 1855 ...
“Windflowers” by Christina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Windflowers" by Christina Rossetti "Windflowers" by Christina Rossetti first appeared in her 1874 collection titled Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme ...
“Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” by Aemilia Lanyer: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" by Aemilia Lanyer "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" by Aemilia Lanyer first ...
“Eleanor Rigby” by Paul McCartney: A Critical Analysis
"Eleanor Rigby" by Paul McCartney: A Critical Analysis Introduction: "Eleanor Rigby" by Paul McCartney "Eleanor Rigby" by Paul McCartney, first ...
“Aurora Leigh” (Book II excerpt) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Aurora Leigh" (Book II excerpt) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Aurora Leigh" (Book II excerpt) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning first ...
“A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” by Anne Bradstreet: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment" by Anne Bradstreet "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon ...
“Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, first appeared in 1867 in his collection New Poems, ...
“Crossing the Bar” by Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred Lord Tennyson "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred Lord Tennyson first appeared in 1889, included ...
“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, first appeared in ...
“Break, Break, Break” by Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Break, Break, Break" by Alfred Lord Tennyson "Break, Break, Break" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, first appeared in 1842, within ...
“Baa Baa Black Sheep”: A Nursery Rhyme: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Baa Baa Black Sheep" "Baa Baa Black Sheep" first appeared in print in 1744 in the collection titled Tommy ...
“An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book” by Margaret Cavendish: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "An Apology for Writing So Much upon This Book" by Margaret Cavendish "An Apology for Writing So Much upon ...
“A Woman Speaks” by Audre Lorde: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Woman Speaks" by Audre Lorde "A Woman Speaks" by Audre Lorde, first appeared in her 1978 poetry collection, ...
“A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman first appeared in the 1871 ...
“A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” by Anne Bradstreet: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment" by Anne Bradstreet "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon ...
“Decomposition” by Zulfikar Ghose: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Decomposition" by Zulfikar Ghose "Decomposition" by Zulfikar Ghose, first appeared in the collection The Loss of India (1964), is ...
“She Was a Phantom of Delight” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "She Was a Phantom of Delight" by William Wordsworth "She Was a Phantom of Delight" by William Wordsworth first ...
“Cutting Loose” by William Stafford: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Cutting Loose" by William Stafford "Cutting Loose" by William Stafford first appeared in his 1998 collection The Way It ...
“A Dirge” by Christina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Dirge" by Christina Rossetti "A Dirge" by Christina Rossetti first appeared in 1866 in her collection The Prince's ...
“A Black Man Talks of Reaping” by Arna Bontemps: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" by Arna Bontemps "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" by Arna Bontemps, first ...
“Sonnet 145” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Sonnet 145" by William Shakespeare "Sonnet 145" by William Shakespeare first appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection published ...
“Sonnet 110: Alas, ’tis true I have gone here and there” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there" by William Shakespeare "Sonnet 110: Alas, 'tis true ...
“Prairie Spring” by Willa Cather: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Prairie Spring" by Willa Cather "Prairie Spring" by Willa Cather first appeared in her 1913 collection O Pioneers!, a ...
“One’s-Self I Sing” by Walt Whitman: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "One's-Self I Sing" by Walt Whitman "One's-Self I Sing" by Walt Whitman first appeared in 1867 as part of ...
“Disillusionment of Ten O’clock” by Wallace Stevens: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Disillusionment of Ten O'clock" by Wallace Stevens "Disillusionment of Ten O'clock" by Wallace Stevens, first appeared in 1915 in ...
“Tweedledum And Tweedledee” by John Byrom: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Tweedledum And Tweedledee" by John Byrom "Tweedledum And Tweedledee" by John Byrom first appeared in 1725, within a collection ...
“This Is My Letter To The World” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "This Is My Letter To The World" by Emily Dickinson The poem "This Is My Letter To The World" ...
“Prologue” by Anne Bradstreet: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Prologue" by Anne Bradstreet "Prologue" by Anne Bradstreet first appeared in 1650 in her collection The Tenth Muse Lately ...
“The North Wind Doth Blow” by Mother Goose: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The North Wind Doth Blow" by Mother Goose "The North Wind Doth Blow" by Mother Goose first appeared in ...
“The Broken Heart” by John Donne: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Broken Heart" by John Donne "The Broken Heart" by John Donne, first appeared in the 1633 posthumous collection, ...
“Tulips” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Tulips" by Sylvia Plath "Tulips" by Sylvia Plath, first appeared in her 1965 posthumous collection, Ariel, is known for ...
“To a Skylark” by Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first appeared in 1820, as ...
“The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins first appeared in 1918 as part of ...
“The Red Poppy” by Louise Glück: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Red Poppy" by Louise Glück "The Red Poppy" by Louise Glück, first appeared in her 1992 poetry collection ...
“The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe first appeared in 1849 in the collection ...
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe first ...
“The Lady of Shalott” by Alfred Tennyson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Tennyson "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Tennyson, first appeared in 1832, in ...
“The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Eagle" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, first appeared in 1851 as part of ...
“The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde first appeared in ...
“Grass” by Carl Sandburg: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Grass" by Carl Sandburg "Grass" by Carl Sandburg, first appeared in 1918 as part of his collection Cornhuskers, reflects ...
“Ten Little Soldiers” by Agatha Christie: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Ten Little Soldiers" by Agatha Christie "Ten Little Soldiers" by Agatha Christie first appeared in 1939 as part of ...
“Poppies In October” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Poppies In October" by Sylvia Plath "Poppies in October" by Sylvia Plath first appeared in her posthumous collection Ariel, ...
“Do not Weep” from War is Kind by Stephen Crane: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Do not Weep" from War is Kind by Stephen Crane "Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind" from ...
“Three Little Birds in a Row” by Stephen Crane: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Three Little Birds in a Row" by Stephen Crane "Three Little Birds in a Row" by Stephen Crane, first ...
“Song of Solomon – Chapter-8” by King Solomon: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Song of Solomon – Chapter-8" by King Solomon "Song of Solomon – Chapter 8" by King Solomon, first appeared ...
“Listen To The MUSTN’TS” by Shel Silverstein: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Listen To The MUSTN'TS" by Shel Silverstein "Listen to the MUSTN'TS" by Shel Silverstein, first appeared in 1974 in ...
“To Autumn” by John Keats: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "To Autumn" by John Keats "To Autumn" by John Keats first appeared in 1820 in his collection titled Lamia, ...
“September Song” by Geoffrey Hill: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "September Song" by Geoffrey Hill "September Song" by Geoffrey Hill, first appeared in 1968 as part of his collection ...
“The Old Maid” by Sarah Teasdale: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Old Maid" by Sarah Teasdale "The Old Maid" by Sara Teasdale first appeared in her 1915 poetry collection ...
“Abuelito Who” by Sandra Cisneros: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Abuelito Who" by Sandra Cisneros "Abuelito Who" by Sandra Cisneros first appeared in her 1984 collection The House on ...
“Stabat Mater” by Sam Hunt: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Stabat Mater" by Sam Hunt "Stabat Mater" by Sam Hunt, first published in 1972 in his poetry collection Drunkard's ...
“The Wild Swans at Coole” by W.B. Yeats: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W.B. Yeats "The Wild Swans at Coole" by W.B. Yeats first appeared in ...
“Song of Autumn” by Charles Baudelaire: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Song of Autumn" by Charles Baudelaire "Song of Autumn" by Charles Baudelaire first appeared in 1857 as part of ...
“The Power of the Dog” by Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Power of the Dog" by Rudyard Kipling "The Power of the Dog" by Rudyard Kipling first appeared in ...
“Fuzzy Wuzzy” by Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Fuzzy Wuzzy" by Rudyard Kipling "Fuzzy Wuzzy" by Rudyard Kipling, first appeared in 1892 in his collection Barrack-Room Ballads, ...
“Meditation at Lagunitas” by Robert Hass: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass "Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass, first appeared in 1979 in his collection ...
“Provide, Provide” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Provide, Provide" by Robert Frost "Provide, Provide" by Robert Frost, first appeared in his 1936 collection A Further Range, ...
“A Line-storm Song” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Line-storm Song" by Robert Frost "A Line-storm Song" by Robert Frost first appeared in 1913 in his collection ...
“A Late Walk” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Late Walk" by Robert Frost "A Late Walk" by Robert Frost, first appeared in 1915 as part of ...
“Brahma” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Brahma" by Ralph Waldo Emerson "Brahma" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, first appeared in 1857 in his poetry collection titled ...
“Life’s Tragedy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Life's Tragedy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar "Life's Tragedy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar first appeared in his 1913 collection titled ...
“Marking Time” by Owen Sheers: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Marking Time" by Owen Sheers "Marking Time" by Owen Sheers, first appeared in his 2005 poetry collection Skirrid Hill, ...
“Yankee Doodle:” Nursery Rhyme
Introduction: "Yankee Doodle:" Nursery Rhyme "Yankee Doodle," a well-known American nursery rhyme, first appeared in written form in the year ...
“Ride A Cock Horse to Banbury Cross” by Mother Goose: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Ride A Cock Horse to Banbury Cross" by Mother Goose "Ride A Cock Horse to Banbury Cross" by Mother ...
“Monday’s Child”: Nursery Rhyme: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Monday's Child": Nursery Rhyme "Monday's Child" is a traditional nursery rhyme, first appeared in 1838 in A. E. Bray's ...
“A Wise Old Owl” Lyrics: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Wise Old Owl" Lyrics "A Wise Old Owl" lyrics first appeared around 1915, often sung as a nursery ...
“No Coward Soul is Mine” by Emily Bronte: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "No Coward Soul is Mine" by Emily Bronte "No Coward Soul is Mine" by Emily Bronte first appeared in ...
“My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” by Tony Sheridan: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" by Tony Sheridan "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" by Tony Sheridan first ...
“Woman Work” by Maya Angelou: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Woman Work" by Maya Angelou "Woman Work" by Maya Angelou, first appeared in her 1978 poetry collection And Still ...
“The Spider and the Fly” by Mary Howitt: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt "The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt first appeared in ...
“How I Discovered Poetry” by Marilyn Nelson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "How I Discovered Poetry" by Marilyn Nelson "How I Discovered Poetry" by Marilyn Nelson, first appeared in her 2014 ...
“Our Deepest Fear” by Marianne Williamson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Our Deepest Fear" by Marianne Williamson "Our Deepest Fear" by Marianne Williamson first appeared in her 1992 book A ...
“On The Sonnet” by John Keats: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "On The Sonnet" by John Keats "On The Sonnet" by John Keats first appeared in 1819, as part of ...
“Life Is Fine” by Langston Hughes: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Life Is Fine" by Langston Hughes "Life Is Fine" by Langston Hughes first appeared in his 1949 poetry collection ...
“I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” by Kevin Young: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" by Kevin Young "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" by Kevin ...
“Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]” by John Keats: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]" by John Keats "Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I ...
“A Lecture upon the Shadow” by John Donne: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "A Lecture upon the Shadow" by John Donne "A Lecture upon the Shadow" by John Donne first appeared in ...
“Half-Caste” by John Agard: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Half-Caste" by John Agard "Half-Caste" by John Agard, first appeared in 1996 in the poetry collection Weblines. is a ...
“On the Beach at Fontana” by James Joyce: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "On the Beach at Fontana" by James Joyce "On the Beach at Fontana" by James Joyce first appeared in ...
“Breakfast” by Jacques Prevert: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Breakfast" by Jacques Prevert "Breakfast" by Jacques Prevert, first appeared in his 1946 poetry collection Paroles (Words), is a ...
“All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter” by J. R. R. Tolkien: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter" by J. R. R. Tolkien "All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter" ...
“Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall” by Mother Goose: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall" by Mother Goose "Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall," a well-known nursery rhyme ...
“Hickory, Dickory, Dock” by Mother Goose: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" by Mother Goose "Hickory, Dickory, Dock" by Mother Goose first appeared as a sung nursery rhyme ...
“Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild” by J.P. Grasser: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild" by J.P. Grasser "Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild" by J.P. Grasser first ...
“Island Man” by Grace Nichols: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Island Man" by Grace Nichols "Island Man" by Grace Nichols, a poignant collection of poems by the Guyanese-British poet, ...
“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins, first appeared in 1889 in ...
“The Heart of a Woman” by Georgia Douglas Johnson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Heart of a Woman" by Georgia Douglas Johnson "The Heart of a Woman" by Georgia Douglas Johnson first ...
“Virtue” by George Herbert: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Virtue" by George Herbert "Virtue" by George Herbert, first appeared in the 1633 posthumous collection titled The Temple, is ...
“Riprap” by Gary Snyder: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Riprap" by Gary Snyder "Riprap" by Gary Snyder first appeared in 1959 as part of his poetry collection Riprap ...
“Fame is a Bee” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Fame is a Bee" by Emily Dickinson "Fame is a Bee" by Emily Dickinson first appeared in 1929 as ...
“The Soul selects her own Society” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Soul selects her own Society" by Emily Dickinson "The Soul selects her own Society" by Emily Dickinson first ...
“The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean" by Emily Dickinson "The Sky Is Low, The Clouds Are Mean" ...
“Rain” by Edward Thomas: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Rain" by Edward Thomas "Rain" by Edward Thomas, appeared in 1917 in the collection "Adonais: A Sonnet Sequence" is ...
“I started Early — Took my Dog —” by Emily Dickenson: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "I started Early — Took my Dog —" by Emily Dickenson "I started Early — Took my Dog —" ...
“pity this busy monster, manunkind” by e e cummings: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "pity this busy monster, manunkind" by e e cummings “Pity this busy monster, manunkind” by e.e. Cummings, first appeared ...
“my father moved through dooms of love” by e e cummings: A Critical Analysis
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“The Rose That Blushes Rosy Red” by Christina Georgina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
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“Fletcher McGee” by Edgar Lee Masters: A Critical Analysis
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“Harlem Shadows” by Claude McKay: A Critical Analysis
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“Delilah” by Carol Ann Duffy: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 98: From You Have I Been Absent in The Spring” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 116: Let Me Not to The Marriage of True Minds” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 147: My Love Is as A Fever, Longing Still” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 10: For shame deny that thou bear’st love to any” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 27: Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed” by William Shakespeare
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“Sonnet 23: As An Unperfect Actor On The Stage” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 20: A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 19: Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws” by William Shakespeare
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“Amoretti XXX: My Love is Like to Ice, And I To Fire” by Edmund Spenser: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 17: Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 15: When I consider everything that grows” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck" by William Shakespeare "Sonnet 14: Not from the ...
“Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“The Sea of Glass” by Ezra Pound: A Critical Analysis
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“The Sacred” by Stephen Dunn: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“My Son My Executioner” by Donald Hall: A Critical Analysis
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“I’ll You How the Sun Rose” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
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“Elm” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
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“Macavity: The Mystery Cat” by T.S. Eliot: A Critical Analysis
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“Infant Holy, Infant Lowly”: A Critical Analysis
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“All the World’s a Stage” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Be Nobody’s Darling” by Alice Walker: A Critical Analysis
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“The Naming of Cats” by T.S. Eliot: A Critical Analysis
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“The Collar” by George Herbert: A Critical Analysis
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“In the Bleak Midwinter” by Christina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
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“The Black Unicorn” by Audre Lorde: A Critical Analysis
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“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall: A Critical Analysis
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“Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol: A Critical Analysis
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“Away in a Manger”: A Critical Analysis
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“Silent Night” by Franz Gruber and Joseph Mohr: A Critical Analysis
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“Power” by Audre Lorde: A Critical Analysis
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“O Little Town of Bethlehem” by Phillips Brooks: A Critical Analysis
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“Incident” by Countee Cullen: A Critical Analysis
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“Facing It” by Yusef Komunyakaa: A Critical Analysis
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“A Small Needful Fact” by Ross Gay: A Critical Analysis
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“O Holy Night” by Adolphe Adam: A Critical Analysis
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“O Emmanuel” by Malcolm Guite: A Critical Analysis
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“O Come, All Ye Faithful” (Attributed to John Francis Wade): A Critical Analysis
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“Nativity” by Li-Young Lee: A Critical Analysis
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“Aubade” by Philip Larkin: A Critical Analysis
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“Christmas” by John Betjeman: A Critical Analysis
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“Christmas Hymn” by Richard Wilbur: A Critical Analysis
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“Advent Calendar” by Rowan Williams: A Critical Analysis
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“Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness” by John Donne: A Critical Analysis
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“Holy Sonnet XIV” by John Donne: A Critical Analysis
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“Love (III)” by George Herbert: A Critical Analysis
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“Joy to the World” by Isaac Watts: A Critical Analysis
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“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” by Charles Wesley: A Critical Analysis
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“Christmas” by George Herbert: A Critical Analysis
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“A Christmas Carol” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Analysis
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“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes: A Critical Analysis
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“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” by Edmund Sears: A Critical Analysis
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“For My Lover, Returning to His Wife” by Anne Sexton: A Critical Analysis
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“Exposure” by Wilfred Owen: A Critical Analysis
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“Christmas Eve” by Christina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
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“The Power of the Dog” by Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Analysis
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“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry: A Critical Analysis
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“The Oxen” by Thomas Hardy: A Critical Analysis
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“The Night Migrations” by Louise Glück: A Critical Analysis
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“The Next War” by Wilfred Owen: A Critical Analysis
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“For My People” by Margaret Walker: A Critical Analysis
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“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes: A Critical Analysis
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“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes: A Critical Analysis
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“I Am a Black Woman” by Mary Evans: A Critical Analysis
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“Africa” by Maya Angelou: A Critical Analysis
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“The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks: A Critical Analysis
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“Sailing to Byzantium” by W.B. Yeats: A Critical Analysis
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“On Being Brought from Africa to America” by Phillis Wheatley: A Critical Analysis
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“Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith: A Critical Analysis
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“Musee des Beaux Arts” by W.H. Auden: A Critical Analysis
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“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by William Carlos Williams: A Critical Analysis
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“Channel Firing” by Thomas Hardy: A Critical Analysis
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“An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” by W. B. Yeats: A Critical Analysis
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“The Man with the Blue Guitar” by Wallace Stevens: A Critical Analysis
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“The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy: A Critical Analysis
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“The Little Black Boy” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“The Layers” by Stanley Kunitz: A Critical Analysis
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“The Lanyard” by Billy Collins: A Critical Analysis
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“Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog” by Oliver Goldsmith: A Critical Analysis
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“The House Dog’s Grave (Haig, an English Bulldog)” by Robinson Jeffers: A Critical Analysis
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“The Hound of Heaven” by Francis Thompson: A Critical Analysis
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“The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot: A Critical Analysis
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“The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman: A Critical Analysis
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“April Rain Song” by Langston Hughes: A Critical Analysis
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“The Garden of Love” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“The Fog” by Carl Sandburg: A Critical Analysis
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“The Field of Waterloo” by Thomas Hardy: A Critical Analysis
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“The Cow” by Robert Louis Stevenson: A Critical Analysis
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“The Canonization” by John Donne: A Critical Analysis
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“The Bluebird” by Charles Bukowski: A Critical Analysis
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“The Black Cottage” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
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“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks: A Critical Analysis
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“The Battle of Blenheim” by Robert Southey: A Critical Analysis
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“The Applicant” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
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“Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant: A Critical Analysis
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“Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar: A Critical Analysis
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“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Critical Analysis
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“Lines Written in Early Spring” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
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“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by Walt Whitman: A Critical Analysis
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“Sweeney among the Nightingales” by T. S. Eliot: A Critical Analysis
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“Survivors” by Siegfried Sassoon: A Critical Analysis
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“Spring” by Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Analysis
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“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats: A Critical Analysis
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“Splendour in the Grass” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 106” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet XIV” by Pablo Neruda: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 75” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“In Memoriam” by Ewart Alan Mackintosh: A Critical Analysis
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“In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae: A Critical Analysis
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“Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owens: A Critical Analysis
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“Bright Star” by John Keats: A Critical Analysis
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“Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen: A Critical Analysis
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“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron: A Critical Analysis
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“Directive” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
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“Smile, Smile, Smile” by Wilfred Owen: A Critical Analysis
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“Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” by John Ashbery: A Critical Analysis
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“Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Critical Analysis
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“Remember” by Christina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
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“Remains” by Simon Armitage: A Critical Analysis
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“Homage to My Hips” by Lucille Clifton: A Critical Analysis
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“God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Analysis
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“Ego Tripping (There May Be a Reason Why)” by Nikki Giovanni: A Critical Analysis
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“Death, Be Not Proud” by John Donne: A Critical Analysis
Introduction: "Death, Be Not Proud" by John Donne "Death, Be Not Proud" by John Donne was first published in 1633, ...
“Quiet Night Thoughts” by Li Bai: A Critical Analysis
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“Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Analysis
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“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou: A Critical Analysis
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“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Critical Analysis
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“On My First Daughter” by Ben Jonson: A Critical Analysis
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“Night-Scented Stock” by Katherine Mansfield: A Critical Analysis
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“On My First Son” by Ben Jonson: A Critical Analysis
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“Night Thoughts” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A Critical Analysis
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“Little Boy Blue” by Eugene Field: A Critical Analysis
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“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
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“My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke: A Critical Analysis
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“Migration” by W. S. Merwin: A Critical Analysis
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“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes” by Thomas Gray
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“Digging” by Seamus Heaney: A Critical Analysis
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“Crossing the Water” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
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“Birches” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
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“A Valentine” by Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Analysis
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“Ah! Sun-flower” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“A Glimpse” by Walt Whitman: A Critical Analysis
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“A Blessing” by James Wright: A Critical Analysis
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“Of Mere Being” by Wallace Stevens: A Critical Analysis
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“Cat and Mouse” by Ted Hughes: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 132” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 129” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“I Am Not Yours” by Sarah Teasdale: A Critical Analysis
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“Out, Out—” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
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“The Last Ride Together” by Robert Browning: A Critical Analysis
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“The Last Ride Together” by Robert Browning: A Critical Analysis
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“Mutability” by Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Critical Analysis
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“Apologia” by Oscar Wilde: A Critical Analysis
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“On The Sea” by John Keats: A Critical Analysis
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“On Being Human” by C. S. Lewis: A Critical Analysis
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“Old Ironsides” by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: A Critical Analysis
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“October” by Louise Glück: A Critical Analsis
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“The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword” by Mariska Taylor-Darko: A Critical Analysis
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“won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton: A Critical Analysis
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“Fare Thee Well” by Lord Byron: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 19: When I consider” by John Milton: A Critical Analysis
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“The Good-Morrow” by John Donne: A Critical Analysis
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“Al Claro De Luna (In the Light of the Moon)” by Delmira Agustini: A Critical Analysis
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“I Know My Soul” by Claude McKay: A Critical Analysis
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“Exile” by Julia Alvarez: A Critical Analysis
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“I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
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“A Route of Evanescence” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
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“Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo: A Critical Analysis
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“Inventory” by Dorothy Parker: A Critical Analysis
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“The House of Life 19 Silent Noon” by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
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“Cross” by Langston Hughes: A Critical Analysis
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“From the Dark Tower” by Countee Cullen: A Critical Analysis
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“As Froth on the Face of the Deep” by Christina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
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“A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General” by Johnathan Swift
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“The Echoing Green” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“Infant Sorrow” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“The Bright Lights of Sarajevo” by Tony Harrison: A Critical Analysis
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“The Waking” by Theodore Roethke: A Critical Analysis
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“The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton: A Critical Analysis
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“Lot’s Wife” by Anna Akhmatova: A Critical Analysis
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“The Garden” by Andrew Marvell: A Critical Analysis
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“September Midnight” by Sarah Teasdale: A Critical Analysis
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“Youth and Age” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Critical Analysis
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“Design” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
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“Daystar” by Rita Dove: A Critical Analysis
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“The Dash” by Linda Ellis: A Critical Analysis
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“Dreams” by Langston Hughes: A Critical Analysis
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“Footsteps of Angels” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Critical Analysis
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“Barter” by Sara Teasdale: A Critical Analysis
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“America” by Claude McKay: A Critical Analysis
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“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost: A Critical Analysis
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“To a Waterfowl” by William Cullen Bryant: A Critical Analysis
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“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams: A Critical Analysis
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“A Cradle Song” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“A Walk After Dark” by W. H. Auden: A Critical Analysis
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“A Lake and a Fairy Boat” by Thomas Hood: A Critical Analysis
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“In Tenebris” by Thomas Hardy: A Critical Analysis
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“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Butler Yeats: A Critical Analysis
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“The Fisherman” by William Butler Yeats: A Critical Analysis
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“To Toussaint Louverture” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
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“Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
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“My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
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“The White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Analysis
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“If” by Rudyard Kipling: A Critical Analysis
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“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
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“A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal” by William Wordsworth: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 139: O, call not me to justify the wrong” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning: A Critical Analysis
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“Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep” by Mary Elizabeth Frye: A Critical Analysis
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“The Trees Are Down” by Charlotte Mew: A Critical Analysis
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“Courage” by Anne Sexton: A Critical Analysis
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“Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning: A Critical Analysis
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“Risk” by Anais Nin: A Critical Analysis
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“To Lucasta Going to The Wars” by Richard Lovelace: A Critical Analysis
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“The Definition of Love” by Andrew Marvell: A Critical Analysis
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“Be Nobody’s Darling” by Alice Walker: A Critical Analysis
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“The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell: A Critical Analysis
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“The Mountain and the Squirrel” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Critical Analysis
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“MCMXIV (1964)” by Philip Larkin: A Critical Analysis
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“If You Forget Me” by Pablo Neruda: A Critical Analysis
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“Her Voice” by Oscar Wilde: A Critical Analysis
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“Never Seek to Tell thy Love” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“Monologue for an Onion” by Suji Kwock Kim: A Critical Analysis
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“Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
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“I Too Sing America” by Langston Hughes: A Critical Analysis
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“Jerusalem” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“Ecce Puer” by James Joyce: A Critical Analysis
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“I Am Offering this Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca: A Critical Analysis
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“The Harvest Moon” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Critical Analysis
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“The Builders” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Critical Analysis
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“Give Me Your Hand” by Gabriela Mistral: A Critical Analysis
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“The Sugar Plum Tree” by Eugene Field: A Critical Analysis
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“The Brain Is Wider Than the Sky” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
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“A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree” by Emily Dickinson: A Critical Analysis
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“maggie and milly and molly and may” by e e cummings: A Critical Analysis
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“A Far Cry from Africa” by Derek Walcott: A Critical Analysis
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“After the Winter” by Claude McKay: A Critical Analysis
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“Blizzard” by William Carlos Williams: A Critical Analysis
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“Live Your Life” by Chief Tecumseh: A Critical Analysis
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“Checking Out Me History” by John Agard: A Critical Analysis
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“Ithaka” by C. P. Cavafy: A Critical Analysis
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“Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan: A Critical Analysis
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“Balloons” by Sylvia Plath: A Critical Analysis
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“As Kingfishers Catch Fire” by Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Analysis
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“The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet: A Critical Analysis
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“Horse Whisperer” by Andrew Forster: A Critical Analysis
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“The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman: A Critical Analysis
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“Don’t Despise Me” by Akka Mahadevi: A Critical Analysis
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“The Wildflower’s Song” by William Blake: A Critical Analysis
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“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich: A Critical Analysis
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“This Land is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie: Analysis
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“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh
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“Sonnet 22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade” by William Shakespeare
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“Shut Out” By Christina Rossetti: A Critical Analysis
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“Poetry of Departures” by Philip Larkin: A Critical Review
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“Petals” by Amy Lowell: A Critical Analysis
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“Oread” by Hilda Doolittle: A Critical Analysis
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“Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men” by Charles Bukowski
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“Sonnet 125” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“I Dreaded That First Robin” by Emily Dickinson: Critical Analysis
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“I Being Born A Woman And Distressed” by Edna St Vincent Millay: Critique
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“Eldorado” by Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Analysis
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“Sonnet 123” by William Shakespeare: A Critical Analysis
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“The Send Off” by Wilfred Owen: A Critical Analysis
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“A Sailor Went to Sea”: A Critical Review
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“Equality” by Maya Angelou: A Critical Analysis
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“Mock Orange” by Louise Gluck: A Critical Analysis
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“On The Grasshopper and Cricket” by John Keats: A Critical Review
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“Ode To Psyche” by John Keats: Exhaustive Critique
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“We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickinson: Analysis
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“For The Time Being” by W. H. Auden: Analysis
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“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell: A Critique
Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which ...
“High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee Jr.: Analysis
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“Spare” by Joanna Klink: A Critical Review
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“The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski: Analysis
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“A Prayer in Spring” by Robert Frost: Analysis
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“The Underground” by Seamus Heaney: Analysis
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“The Tyger” by William Blake: Analysis
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? ...
“Terminus” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Analysis
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“To The Nile” by John Keats: Analysis
Son of the old Moon-mountains African! Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile! We call thee fruitful, and that very while ...
“A Hymn To God The Father” by John Donne: Analysis
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive ...
“The Old Pond” by Matsuo Basho: Analysis
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“Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen: Analysis
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried ...
“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes: Analysis
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“The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy
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“Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare: Analysis
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the ...
“Psalm 96” from King James Bible
O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless ...
“The Sound of the Sea” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep, And round the pebbly beaches far and wide I heard the first ...
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost: Analysis
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I ...
“The Reader” by Richard Wilbur: Analysis
She is going back, these days, to the great stories That charmed her younger mind. A shaded light Shines on ...
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe: Analysis
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten ...
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, ...
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot
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“The Lady of Shalott” by Lord Tennyson: Analysis
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“The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll: Analysis
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the ...
“The Gift” by Li-Young Lee: Analysis
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his ...
“The Darkling Thrush” by Thomas Hardy: Analysis
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day ...
Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
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In Rome on the Campo di Fiori baskets of olives and lemons, cobbles spattered with wine and the wreckage of ...
“Love Is” by Nikki Giovanni
Some people forget that love is tucking you in and kissing you ‘Good night’ no matter how young or old ...
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage ...
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Out of lemon flowers loosed on the moonlight, love’s lashed and insatiable essences, sodden with fragrance, the lemon tree’s yellow ...
“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—”Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ...
“O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman
Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, ...
“A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; my Luve is like the melody That’s ...
“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom ...
“Phantom Limbs” by Anne Michaels
“The face of the city changes more quickly, alas! than the mortal heart.”—Charles Baudelaire So much of the city is ...
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
FERRARA That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a ...
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six ...
“Lord Randall” (Anonymous)
“Oh where ha’e ye been, Lord Randall my son? where ha’e ye been, my handsome young man?” “I ha’e been ...
“In Trackless Woods” by Richard Wilbur
In trackless woods, it puzzled me to find Four great rock maples seemingly aligned, As if they had been set ...
“In Time of Silver Rain” by Langston Hughes
In time of silver rain The earth Puts forth new life again, Green grasses grow And flowers lift their heads, ...
“Bogland” by Seamus Heaney
for T. P. Flanagan We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening-- Everywhere the eye concedes to ...
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea, The plowman homeward plods ...
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw ...
“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in ...
“Morning Glory” by Naomi Shihab Nye
The faces of the teachers know we have failed and failed yet they focus beyond, on the windowsill the names ...
“I Ask My Mother to Sing,” Li-Young Lee
She begins, and my grandmother joins her. Mother and daughter sing like young girls. If my father were alive, he ...
“Dream Variations,” by Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day ...