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I read "Emma" quite a long time ago, and I can't remember the story. But in my opinion, it is worth trying to read it as Jane Austen has a sharp insight on men's human nature. I still remind of the...

Hello ! Many critics have written books about Coleridge's poetry, so it is getting more and more difficult to choose a topic. I suggest you a few classical issues such as "Nature", "Beauty" in the...

A gun will never be a weak image, for the violence it suggests, above all in this poem where the image sounds like a shot. Moreover, it introduces the poem, being the last word of the first sentence...

Would you want to analyze the sexual elements in the poem, I think you must have a Freudian approach. "Snug as a gun" has a sexual connotation, I think. "Snug" relates to softness, warmth, whilst...

It's really a lovely poem. The description of nature mingled with strong feelings, as well as a deep sense of motion, echo English pre-romantic and even romantic poets. The translation is quite...

Leda and the Swan.
Just to add something, I think that the use of the swan calls attention to another theme, the duality in human nature. As the story hinges round Leda's rape, it has to do with the...

I wish I could help you, but I haven't got the text of the poem. There is a book which could be useful to you. Here it is : A Handbook of Literary terms by F. Grellet, Hachette, 1996. It provides a...

"Snow" is really a lovely poem. Who wrote it ?
There is no comparison between the snow and the roses. The poet's design is to make us feel how generous and rich is Nature, and how its ways are...

As Il Penseroso wrote, it seems to be an allusion to the Crucifixion. The poet is suffering so much that he feels as if his flesh were burning. And the interrogative form points out a kind of...

Sorry, I have no idea, but it sounds like a song, with "love" so often repeated. If it is a poem, it might have been written in the 60's, a romantic age. I hope you will find it.

To convey the idea that it is an imaginary journey, W uses a simile (as a cloud), which likens himself to the lighteness and motion of the cloud (floats, over). So the journey of the cloud becomes...

First, through the narrative structure. A mystery surrounds the mariner. His name, time and place of departure of his voyage remain unknown, which creates a distance between his story and his...

The interrogative form indicate that he doesn't understand what is happening to him. Something is going wrong. It is confirmed by the adjective "black". Beams are known to light up and not to darken...

I think there is less strength of feeling in "Astrophel and Stella" than in Shakespeare's sonnets, published a few years after, so that Sidney's sonnets look old fashioned. Furthermore, the...

Is poetry a lowly form of writing ?
It is a question which cannot be answered in a nutshell. I should have agree with you if you have said that bad poetry is a lowly form of writing. But essential...

The point of life is yours, what you have decided to put in it. As life is limited in time and space, one must make sense of it, taking into account ones skills and ones defects. People, nature,...

I've never analysed Cummings's poetry, so I am going to give you my own interpretation, keeping in mind that I do not take into account the context of this particular poem.
The recurrence of the...

I do like Sonnet 94 which we have just received by mail. It speaks of life and is still contemporanean although it was written a few centuries ago. One can only mistakes others, and bitterness...

The 5 paragraphs in the poem seem to form 5 sonnets, each one having 14 lines. There are two parts, the introduction of the "I" in the 4th paragraph creating a shift in the poem.
The idea that...

One may feel depressed because of some tragic reasons, such as somebody loved' s death or a disease. It is thus quite normal to be in a dejected state. But depression is a disease too, which has not...

Is Lucy a real person or a fantasy in the poet's mind ? Any way, in the poem, the only living person is the poet himself, since he always used the preterit. May be she has been created by the poet's...

In "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways", Wordsworth emphasizes Lucy's uniqueness and her radiance, when he compares her to a star shining in the sky. Even if she lived hidden, unseen and unknown by...

The last paragraph sounds quite differently indeed because of the introduction of the first person, which has more to do with something recurrent in Coleridge's poetry, his strong desire of being...

"The secret of youth is ignorance". By the way, it seems that ignorance is a thing largely shared by too many people all around the world. As far as I am concerned, I think that asserting such a...

Maybe you are too focused on the past. Each generation has got its own problems. As far as students are concerned, it was exactly the same 20 or 30 years ago (except for violence and addiction),...