One of the primary questions that perplexes the readers of Milton's Paradise Lost concerns the poet's delineation of Satan, the chief of the Fallen angels. Throughout the first two or…
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain,—Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,Knowledge…
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning is an extraordinary poem in the form of a dramatic monologue. The poetry of Robert Browning exemplifies a dominant and perhaps the most original tendency…
Kubla Khan by Coleridge records an opium-induced dream, interrupted by a visitor from Porlock. The poem has been taken to be a beautiful but chaotic fragment where images float about…