Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” reveals London’s dawn stillness — a rare moment of unity between nature, light, and human creation.
Michael
Wordsworth’s “Michael” tells the tragic story of a shepherd’s faith, family, and loss — a pastoral masterpiece on labor, love, and moral endurance.
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
Dickinson’s winter light presses like cathedral music — a moment where the divine feels near yet withholding, casting revelation as burden.
I Heard a Fly Buzz — When I Died
Dickinson’s stark vision of death and consciousness — a study in silence, interruption, and the limits of vision.
I Dwell in Possibility
Dickinson’s ars poetica: poetry as a house of infinite rooms, open to visitors and crowned by the gambrels of the sky.
“Hope” is the Thing with Feathers
A compact hymn to resilience—analysis of Dickinson’s avian conceit, hymn meter, and ethical restraint.
After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes
A clinical, lyrical x-ray of the mind after shock—analysis of Dickinson’s metaphors of ceremony, mineralization, and time.
Ulalume
Poe’s most hypnotic elegy: a night-walk with Psyche where memory conceals and reveals the grave it seeks.
The Bells
A sound-symphony of life turning to alarm and elegy—an analysis of Poe’s metrics, refrain, and the psychology of noise.
The Haunted Palace
A poetic allegory of lost reason — analysis of imagery, rhythm, and Poe’s architecture of the mind.
A Dream within a Dream
Poe’s existential reflection on reality and illusion — an analysis of time, loss, and the limits of perception.
Kubla Khan
A visionary fragment of pleasure‑domes and prophecy — analysis of imagery, sound, and the myth of poetic creation.