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The poem is widely anthologised in major Indian English poetry collections and is regarded as a pioneering classic in modern Indian English writing. [1] The poem is remarkable for its breathless tempo, vivid imagery and unsuppressed angst at societal decadence. The poem is addressed to the Indian city of Kolkata, although not in eulogical terms.
"In The Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a poem by Indian Romanticism and Lyric poet Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). The work was composed and published in her anthology The Bird of Time (1912)—which included "Bangle-sellers" and "The Bird of Time", it is Naidu's second publication and most strongly nationalist book of poems, published from both London and New York City.
Ripen Mango)is the most famous poem by Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon. He penned it in 1936. The poem portrays a mother mourning her son and was a part of a collection published in 1936, in the Onam Edition of the Mathrubhumi newspaper. [1] Menon states the main inspiration behind this poem is the memory of his brother, who died when he was four ...
The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus "when I am stronger" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would ...
Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets).
This poem marks the introduction into an English context of the classical pastoral, a mode of poetry that assumes an aristocratic audience with a certain kind of attitude to the land and peasants. The explorations of love found in the sonnets of William Shakespeare and the poetry of Walter Raleigh and others also implies a courtly audience.
The poem is also included in the syllabus for the Grade IX (SSC-1) FBISE examinations, Pakistan and the Grade X ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) examinations, India. V. S. Naipaul , who grew up in Trinidad when it was a British colony, mentions a "campaign against Wordsworth" in the island, which he did not agree with.
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 By the Seashore, Isle of Man 1833 "Why stand we gazing on the sparkling Brine," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Isle of Man 1833 "A youth too certain of his power to wade" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835