September 28, 2018
Introduction to the AnalysisFrom the third person point of view, Jennings painted a clear image of an aged person's way-of-life (her grandmother). The poem opened with comparison; comparing the abode of the grandmother to an "antique shop". From the poem, naijapoets.com is of the opinion that old age has some stages (initial frailty, intense frailty, and death) the first stanza described the poem-speaker's grandmother as being old and lonely....
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Friday, 28 September 2018
Thursday, 27 September 2018
About the PoemThis post will explain the figures of speech and the themes in Report To Wordsworth by Kim Boey Cheng.Report To Wordsworth is a poem believed to be addressed to William Wordsworth, the poet, whose poetic messages show affection for nature. Cheng wasn't glad with the deplorable states of natural things like rivers, animals, plants, atmosphere, etc; after he felt that the gods meant to come to the rescue of nature were silent, he had...
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
About the PoetWe seem elated to be analyzing another elegy_ a mild elegy for that matter. What could be more delighting than meeting poets in their genius dens.The poem "In Memory of Anyone Unknown to Me" proved Elizabeth Jennings' creativity was inelastic during her lifetime.Elizabeth Jennings was...
Monday, 24 September 2018
Saturday, 22 September 2018
The Line-by-Line SummaryThis thirty three line poem begins with an abstract voice telling the readers about his busconductor who soon will depart this heart as a result of kidney failure. From line 5-18, the poem speaker tells that all the things that used to amount to nothing in the eyes of the busconductor became important while those cherished things became uninteresting to the busconductor:-"Each bustickettakes on now a different shapeand...
Friday, 21 September 2018
The IntroductionAt the moment,If you're not happy with yourself.If you're not in harmony with whatever you regard as your own God.If you're yet to find peace in this lousy world that looks so shapeless like amoeba.Then you need to download and listen to Desiderata by Max Ehrmann.It is what I regard...
Thursday, 13 September 2018
The Poet and IntroductionI do not think any lover of good literature will dispute my believe that Rudyard Kipling was one of the geniuses in his lifetime. Born in India on the 30th of December, 1865. His love for literature led him to journalism, poetry and short-story writing (he authored the famous book title: The Jungle Book) but to cut the very long profile short, at the ripe age of 70, Joseph Rudyard Kipling kissed his mortal flesh goodnight...
Saturday, 8 September 2018
September 08, 2018
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The Excerpt"There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stopped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door...
- September 08, 2018
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- naijapoets.com, Non African Analysis, T S Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
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The Author of the DramaMurder in the Cathedral is a drama written by T. S. Eliots, a British poet though born in America by American citizens. He lived from 26-09-1888 to 04-01-1965 his full name is Thomas Stearns Eliot OM.Summary of the DramaThe drama is a tragic one. It dramatized the rivalry between two friends King Henry II and Thomas Becket, who also can be considered leaders but the strength of their friendship began faint in sight of disagreements. At...
Wednesday, 5 September 2018
- September 05, 2018
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- Finery by Jane Taylor, naijapoets analysis, naijapoets.com, Non African Analysis, poetic analysis
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About Jane TaylorTwinkle Twinkle Little Star was written by Jane Taylor who lived between 23rd September of 1783 and 13th April of 1824. She was a poet mothered by another writer who goes by the name Ann Taylor (1796-1810). Jane Taylor hailed from Lavenham, Suffolk in London.Summary of Finery by Jane TaylorFinery is a poem that narrates a story of two young ladies_ Fanny and Lucy. Fanny was a young rich lady who took dozen of time to groom...
Saturday, 1 September 2018
The PoetHenrik Ibsen is a poet who lived 78 years on earth between 20th March 1828 and 23rd May 1906. He was born in Telemark County in Norway.The SummaryIn the poem "With A Water-Lily", Henrik Ibsen admonished a child who seemed to be too fond of water. He told of the decoy a stagnant water creates...
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Let me quickly take you through some of the literary devices evident in one of Robert Frost's evergreen poems titled "Birches".Personification: This is when an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated or embodied with personalities. "But I was going to say when Truth broke in/ With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm" (line 21-22). Truth was written as if human name and also given human qualities.Assonance: This is the...
Wednesday, 29 August 2018
The IntroductionIn this article I will like to remind you of wind (one of the most common found theme in poetry of nature). Many classic and contemporary poets have written about it_ William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Kwesi Brew, Subramania Bharati, Glynn Burridge, Emily Bronte, etc.What Is WindNo matter the type of wind in discussion, it is a mass of gases propelled by force. Wikipedia noted that in outer space, soar wind is the movement...
Tuesday, 28 August 2018
- August 28, 2018
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- my native land, naijapoets.com, Non African Analysis, quote, Sir Walter Scott
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The PoetMy Native Land by Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish poet born on 15 August 1771. The 9th of his father's children. His father was a member of a cadet branch of the Scotts Clan, and his mother descended from the Haliburton family, the descent from whom granted Walter's family the hereditary right of burial in Dryburgh Abbey.The Quote"Living, shall forfeit fair renown,"This quote is found in line 13 of the poem "My Native Land"The DetailsActually,...
Thursday, 23 August 2018
The OverviewIt is such a bad sight to be in an unwanted confinement_ be it imprisonment, be it sickness, be it captivity, be it compulsory babysitting. The truth is no one loves to be denied freedom_ not even poets.In the poem "Letter to Martha 17" Dennis Brutus wrote of the negative effect of confinement. Stephen Spender did the same in the poem "My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough"Gwendolyn Brooks also expressed her unhappiness with...
Saturday, 11 August 2018
The PoetI do cherish poem that discuss issues ignored in name the name of some dogmatic believes. The poem title Story of Isaac by Leonard Cohen did just that.Leonard Cohen is a poet whose nationality belongs to Canada. He stayed and enjoyed this earth the 21st of September 1934 and the 7th of November...
Thursday, 9 August 2018
- August 09, 2018
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- daffodil, naijapoets, Non African Analysis, versions, Video, William, Wordsworth
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The poem revealed the level of mesmerism the poet had when met with a dazzling nature acting under the cause and effect mechanism. Readers are meant to see how an inanimate can communicate beautifully with animate without the use of spoken words.William Wordsworth (07/04/1770-23/04/1850) was motivated to write the poem: Daffodil while passing on a stormy day, he saw the breeze orchestrating the daffodils, making them danced so gracefully.It...
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
The PoetRabindrabath Tagore was an Indian poet who lived between May 7, 1861 and August 7, 1941. According to nobelprize.org website, e was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, a project which brought him into close touch with common humanity and increased...
Monday, 6 August 2018
- August 06, 2018
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- black, college, exams, forest, Non African Analysis, storm
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The OverviewThe poem was written at nighttime_ I guess_ when it was about to rain.I supposed that D. H. Lawrence picked his paper and pen when the effect of thunder lightning on rain marvelled him.[If You Wish, Click The Link To listen The Poem]It was shown in the second and third stanzas of the poem:"And as the electric liquid pours out, sometimesa still brighter white snake wriggles among it, spilledand tumbling wriggling down the sky:and...
Sunday, 5 August 2018
The PoetRicardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 - 23 September 1973) better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politicianAnalysis Of Absence By Pablo NerudaAbsence by Pablo Neruda has the theme of love and optimism. Neruda composed the poem on the ground of love; ... [View Detail]Analysis of Tonight I Can Write by Pablo NerudaTonight I Can Write is a poem that portrayed how writing...
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