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The greatest poems in English, and what they mean

The best classic poems in English, carefully chosen, each with the full text, a plain summary, and an original analysis.

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Ozymandias

“I met a traveller from an antique land”

Percy Bysshe Shelleymodernist

The Road Not Taken

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”

Robert Frostmodernist

Dulce et Decorum Est

“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”

Wilfred Owenrenaissance

Sonnet 18

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

William Shakespeareromantic

The Tyger

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright”

William Blake

In Flanders Fields

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow”

John McCrae

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