English Literature - analysed easily: Poem

e.e. Cummings – a guided analysis of his poem maggie, milly, molly and may. The text of the poem and answers to the following questions: 1. summarize the poem· 2. how do the objects characterize each girl?· 3. in what way does the beach symbolize each girl. 4. what does the speaker of the poem want to express in the last two lines?· 5. comment on his choice of names.· 6. discuss the outer from of the poem

Das Material gibt Auskunft über die Form von Sonetten, im speziellen bei Shakespeare, beschreibt den historischen Hintergrund und liefert biographische Informationen.
Exemplarisch werden die beiden bekannten Sonette 18 und 130 vorgestellt, nebenher wird das elisabethanische Weltbild besprochen und die Liebe zwischen Dichter und Angebeteter erklärt. (Text auf deutsch)

Musterklausur eines Gedichts zum Thema War and Peace; Leistungskursanspruch
Text des Gedichts-Musteraufgaben für eine Klausur eines Englischleistungskurses-Musterlösung der gestellten Klausuraufgaben mit sehr guten Interpretationsansätzen

William Blake´s poem describes impressions of London and its inhabitants. The voice of the poem walks through the city and gives a description of what he sees.

London evokes a strong atmosphere of darkness and desperation. The poem shows how people lived and died in London in the 18th and19th century.

Content:

• The text of the poem
• Interpretation and additional remarks

Edward Field (*1924) was born in Brooklyn, New York. After his service in World War II and a short time at New York University, Field went to Europe in 1946 and focused on his writing. In the 1960´s and `70´s Field was able to support himself by reading his poetry out in public.

Throughout his career, Field has published numerous works, not only poetry, but he has collaborated on novels and written the narration for the documentary film To Be Alive. The poem “New York” was published in the collection A Full Heart in 1977.

Content:

• Interpreation of the poem

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William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet and painter. He is considered as one of the most important personalities in English history of art and literature.
This material deals with the poem A Poison Tree which forms part of the book Songs of Experience, Blake´s famous collection of poetry.
Content:

The text of the poem A Poison Tree

Interpretation and additional remarks

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet, playwright and novelist. During the late 19th century his enormous success in writing and his dandified lifestyle made Oscar Wilde one of the most celebrated persons of London. Besides his famous novel The Picture of Dorian Gray as well as various plays and short stories, Oscar Wilde is primarily known for his poetry. This material deals with his poem My Voice.
Content:

The text of the poem My Voice

Interpretation and additional remarks

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), an English poet, courtier and soldier, was one of the most famous figures of the Elizabethan Age in England.

Nowadays, Sir Philp Sidney is best known for his sequences of sonnets which include some true mastierpieces.

This material deals with the sonnet With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb´st the skies .

Content:

• The text of the poem With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb´st the skies
• Interpretation and additional remarks

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer who, despite his relatively short lifespan, left a work which is absolutely unique.

Poe is usually known as a representative of the American Romantic Movement. As a precursor of the crime or detective fiction as well as science fiction, he had a tendency to mystery and the macabre. This material deals with his poem A Dream.

Content:

• The text of the poem A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
• Interpretation and additional remarks

Poe (1809-1849) is one of the most important American romantic writers. He was one of the originators of detective and criminal fiction. Besides several short stories of that genre, Poe also wrote a number of poems. He was not only a writer, but also worked as a literary critic and editor.
Poe became widely popular when the poem “The Raven” was published in 1845.
Content:

The poem “The Raven”

Interpretation of the poem

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The English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is a major representative of the period of Romanticism.
In addition to his famous publication Lyrical Ballads (1789) which he published in cooperation with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth wrote many romantic poems. In this text, his sonnet The World is too much with us will be analyzed.
Content:

The text of the poem The World is too much with us

Interpretation and additional remarks

Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) was an American author, to whom was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Besides many historic, autobiographical and folkloristic works, Carl Sandburg was famous for his poems treating topics like life in a metropolis. This text deals with Sandburg´s poem Trinity Place.
Content:

Interpretation and additional remarks
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright, is nowadays considered as one of the greatest and most important English writers.

Apart from many plays like Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear and various poems, he also wrote 154 sonnets that appeared in 1609 in a collection called Shakespeares Sonnets.

In this material, his Sonnet 109 will be analysed.

Content:

• The text of the sonnet
• Interpretation, additional remarks

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright, is nowadays considered as the greatest and most important English writer.
Apart from many plays like Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear and various poems, he also wrote 154 sonnets that appeared in 1609 in a collection called Shake-Speares Sonnets. In this material, his Sonnet 12 will be analyzed.
Content:

The text of the sonnet

Interpretation, additional remarks

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright, is nowadays considered as one of the greatest and most important English writers.

Apart from many plays like Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear and various poems, he also wrote 154 sonnets that appeared in 1609 in a collection called Shakespeares Sonnets.

In this material, his Sonnet 18, which is probably one of the most famous and best-known sonnets, will be analysed.

Content:

• The text of the sonnet
• Interpretation, additional remarks

Emily Brontë (1818 – 1848) was a British novelist and poet. She is a representative of the Victorian era in British literature.
Besides her only but nevertheless famous novel Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily published with her sisters Anne and Charlotte a collection of poems. This material deals with her poem Hope.
Content:

The text of the poem Hope.

Interpretation and additional remarks.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish physician and writer. He is best known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, but he also published a number of other works.
Among these other works are several historical novels as well as volumes of poems. The poem “A Parable” was published in the volume “Songs of Action” in 1898.
Content:

The text of the poem “A Parable”

Interpretation of the poem

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was a British poet and soldier. He became famous as one of the leading poets of England during the First World War.
Anthem for Doomed Youth is one of Owen´s most popular poems as it describes the shocking reality of war.
Content:

The text of the poem Anthem for Doomed Youth

Interpretation and additional remarks

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist and satirist. He is less well known for his poetry than his satirical prose. The work which Swift became most famous for is his novel Gulliver´s Travels, first published in 1726.
This material deals with one of his poems, “A Description of the Morning”.
Content:

The text of the poem

Interpretation and additional remarks

Edgar Allan Poe lived from 1809 to 1849. He is one of the most important American poets and authors. Many of his works deal with death and horror.
The poem The Lake is exemplary for Poe´s mystic and dark texts and his genres dark romanticism and Gothic fiction.
Content:

The text of the poem.

• Der Text des Gedichtes
• Interpretation mit begleitendem Kommentar

The English poet William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) is a major representative of the period of Romanticism.

In addition to his famous publication of Lyrical Ballads (1789) together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth wrote many romantic poems. In this text, his sonnet Upon Westminster Bridge will be analyzed.

Content:

• The text of the original poem Upon Westminster Bridge
• Interpretation and additional remarks

The English poet William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) is a major representative of the period of Romanticism.

In addition to his famous publication of Lyrical Ballads (1789) together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth wrote many romantic poems. In this material, his poem “Lines Written in Early Spring” will be analyzed.

Content:

• The text of the poem “Lines Written in Early” Spring
• Interpretation and additional remarks

• Das Gedicht
• Interpretation mit begleitendem Kommentar

The poem “Spring Carol”, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1918, deals with the description of the upcoming season spring and its natural appearance.

Content:

• The poem
• Information about Robert Louis Stevenson
• Analysis of the poem “Spring Carol” containing stylistic devices

In 1819 George Howe produced the book First Fruits of Australian Poetry by Supreme Court judge Barron Field. Barron Field came to Australia in 1817; while there had been writers before him, his work was the first to be produced in form of a book.

Rather a pamphlet than a book, it contained only two poems, “Botany Bay Flowers” and “The Kangaroo”, of which the latter is the more famous one and a good example of the early settler´s view of Australian nature.

Content:

• Text of the original poem “The Kangaroo”
• Interpretation and additional remarks

Information about the author Seamus Heany.

Discussing facts about 9/11 in New York integrated in the poem “Anything can happen”

Content:

• Overview about the material
• poem “Anything can happen” by Seamus Heaney
• Interpretation

Growing up in the bush, becoming a skilled horseman, then leaving school for training as a solicitor and writing poetry and journalism, Paterson (1864-1941) became known for his bush ballads which he published under his penname `The Banjo´.

He belonged to the writers of the Bulletin School and his ballads had a major role in the magazine´s nationalist attitude.

“More than any other poet Paterson created Australian Arcadia [...] and peopled it with legendary characters.”

One of those, as the title already indicates, is described in his famous ballad “The Man from Snowy River”.

Content:

• The text of the original poem “The Man from Snowy River”
• Sample interpretation of the final two stanzas plus additional remarks on the poem, its literary genre as a bush ballad and the author

• A Dream
• The City in the Sea
• The Lake
• The Raven