Howl
Enter Allen Ginsberg’s Howl — a visionary outcry of madness, passion, and rebellion that redefined American poetry and free expression.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
An analysis of Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, exploring modern alienation, indecision, and the fragmented voice of the modern man.
No Man Is An Island
John Donne’s timeless meditation on human unity and mortality — a profound reminder that all souls are connected.
The Waste Land
Eliot’s “The Waste Land” reshapes modern poetry with its haunting vision of despair, renewal, and fractured faith.
Still I Rise
An in-depth analysis of Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise,” exploring how the poem transforms personal pain into collective triumph.
When You Are Old
Yeats reflects on love and memory in “When You Are Old,” a tender vision of devotion and time’s quiet sorrow.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
A line-by-line exploration of Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” examining its villanelle form, grief, and defiance of death.
Invictus
“Invictus” captures unbroken resolve in the face of suffering — William Ernest Henley’s immortal cry of the unconquered soul.
The Raven
Explore Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting vision of grief and obsession in “The Raven,” where memory becomes both muse and torment.
There Will Come Soft Rains
Nature’s calm outlasts human conflict in Teasdale’s quietly devastating WWI-era lyric.
The Kiss
Fulfillment turns ambivalent in Teasdale’s eight-line lyric of longing and disillusion.
I Am Not Yours
Teasdale’s classic love lyric balancing the hunger to yield with the need to remain oneself.