Have you ever wondered how the lens of New Historicism can transform your understanding of “O Captain! My Captain!”? If so, you are in the right place. I am going to analyze Walt Whitman’s poem in easy language, using the principle of New Historicism. Besides the analysis, I will also discuss its summary, theme, poetic…
Anne Bradstreet was the first American woman poet. “The Prologue” is one of her poems in her first volume of poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650). In this blog post, I will cover the following points: The Prologue Summary The poem “The Prologue” by Anne Bradstreet explores the speaker’s feelings of…
Summary “A Bird came down the Walk” A Bird, came down the Walk is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that captures a simple yet vivid encounter with a bird. The bird is first seen eating an angleworm, and drinking dew from the grass, and then hopping aside to let a beetle pass. The bird’s…
Poem Because I Could Not Stop for Death School of poetry American Poetry Poet Emily Dickinson Published 1890 Name of the collection of poems Poems: Series 1 Theme Impermanence of life Bits of Information Because I Could Not Stop for Death Summary The poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson narrates…