Poetry

Isabella Isabella: pot Of Basil Born in London, England, on October 31, 1795, John Keats, English Romantic poet, devoted his short life to th...

Waste Land The poem begins with a section entitled "The Burial of the Dead." In it, the narrator -- perhaps a representation of Eliot himself -...

Deffodils “I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffo...

On His Blindness When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, The poem begins with the speaker’s considerat...

Samson Agonistes The poem opens with an argument, presenting Samson ’s current state and how he ended being a prisoner to the Philistine. Because it i...

Clerk's Tale The Clerk claims to get the tale from Petrarch, but Petrarch almost certainly found it in Boccaccio’s Decameron – a fact that Chauc...

Paradise Lost Paradise Lost begins with a prologue in which Milton performs the traditional epic task of invoking the Muse and stating his purpos...

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