“Prospice” is an optimistic poem of Robert Browning. It is a dramatic monologue expressing the poet’s courage, hope and determination. It was composed after the death of Mrs. Browning and was first published in 1864 in Dramatic Personae.
“Dover Beach” is a representative poem of Arnold. It was published in 1887. This poem is a sad musing on the life of the Victorian Age marked throughout by the prominence of the spirit of inquiry and criticism, by scepticism and religious uncertainty, and by spiritual struggle and unrest.
‘An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ was published in 1751. It brought Gray into lime light and his genius was recognized. Its success was instantaneous and overwhelming. A dignified elegy in classical diction celebrating the graves of humble and unknown villagers was, in itself, such a novelty that all paid attention to it.
In this great ode, Keats presents an ideal philosophy of beauty based on truth. The urn represents it. The urn has a Grecian shape. It attracts the poet very much. It presents two lively pictures engraved on the urn. The pictures have the blessing of eternity.
Tennyson is also a great love-poet, and his treatment of love is unique in many ways. He is primarily and mainly a poet of conjugal love.
The poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is about the sad demise (death) of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of America.
In the poem “Animals,” the poet his better liking for the company of the animals who are far superior for him to human beings who have a number of evils with them.
The poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is about the sad demise (death) of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of America. The grave Civil War had taken place between the Northern and the Southern States of America between 1861 to 1865.
The poet had composed two poems under the title “On the Beach at Night”. The first one was composed in 1856 under the title “On the Beach at Night Alone” and the second one was composed in 1871 under the present title “On the Beach at Night”.
In London, Blake gives his own view of life that “charter’d liberty” on which his countrymen prided themselves. He thus exposes the ugly facts of society.