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Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Robert Frost: 2 of 22
The poem in Iambic Trimeter, has the simple rhyme scheme AABBCCDD. Written in 1923, this poem was published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was also published in the same year in New Hampshire, his first book to win a Pulitzer Prize. Gold is the most omnipotent symbol of ephemeral riches and transitory glory. ... More..
Parenting & Pregnancy > Childbirth & Labor Humor: Delivery stories: 5 of 49
This visit is not purely coincidental! Neither are the characters fictional nor anybody who do not bear any resemblance to reality or whatsoever. The visit was neither unplanned nor preplanned.It was inevitable as I had eventually stumbled on to the ninth month of pregnancy. Crossing the threshold of the labour room, all the... More..
Arts & Humanities > Asian History Biography: Mahatma Gandhi: 1 of 9
Mahatma Gandhi with the title of the great soul' is the sun of the Indian solar system, radiating peace with his philosophy of non-violence, emitting rays of truthfulness and shines in the hearts of millions for his unforgettable contributions. Like most other Indians, I was aware of the fact what Mahatma Gandhi had done for... More..
Creative Writing > Songs Songs: My wife: 4 of 28
YOU ARE. In my dreams, the dream I forgot to forget, In my memory, the sun that forgot to set, In my imagination, the creator of my art, In my music, the rhythm of my heart, In my journey, the one to carry me on, In my vision, beyond the horizon, In my insight, the apple of my eye, In my principles, the only reason to lie, I... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: Dover Beach, by Matthew Arnold: 2 of 14
The Victorian age was an age of Skepticism.Value systems turned topsy-turvy, and Religious conservatism was waging a desperate crusade against Darwinism and Utilitarianism.People lived in two worlds-"one dead" and the other"powerless to be born." Arnold was emotionally attached to the old world, but intellectually inclined t... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: Ode on a Grecian Urn, by John Keats: 2 of 13
Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a balance between the flux of human experience and the fixity of art, the contrast between enduring art and ephemeral art, and an equation between realism and aestheticism. The indefinite article in the poem refers to how Keats did not refer to any single work of Greek art; but to art in gene... More..
Arts & Humanities > William Shakespeare Literary analysis: Hamlet, by William Shakespeare: 9 of 55
The problem of Hamlet has been described as evil, evil's contagion and its inevitable destruction. This philosophic conception of the laws governing humanity is sought to be illustrated by the design of the play. Shakespeare has with his understanding of the obscure recesses of the human mind created a character that has baf... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 1 of 6
"There is a peculiar ambivalence in Kubla Khan allowing the widest divergencies of critical interpretation," says T.S. Eliot. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment takes its title from the Mongol and Chinese emperor Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty. The tale of its composition is the most c... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: The World is Too Much with Us, by William Wordsworth: 7 of 36
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for ... More..
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry analysis: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Coleridge: 1 of 5
The theme of the allegorical "The Ancient Mariner" has been described as one of guilt and expiation, obliteration and regeneration and the conflict between individual love and universal love. The paranormal atmosphere, one of awe and mystery suits perfectly the setting for crime and nemesis that follows the sinner. The poem,... More..