Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was written and published in 1923 in the volume of poems entitled New Hampshire . This is one of the most widely read lyrics by Frost. Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the beloved Prime Minister of India, used to read this poem a…

The theme of Death loomed large almost one third of the bulk of Emily Dickinson poems . Throughout her life she was preoccupied with death . To her death is the supreme touchstone for life. Investigation of the theme of death gave her a panoramic view of vital issues such as religion, God, nature, love and immortali…

Emily Dickinson as a Poetess Emily Dickinson was a renowned American poet of the nineteenth century. She was "the most perfect flower of New England Transcendentalism," and anticipator of metaphysical poetry, a smeller of modernity, and an upholder of romanticism. In her wit she was metaphysical, in her at…

Mending Wall , one of the most widely quoted poems of Frost, was included in North of Boston published in 1914. It is a dramatic lyric on monologue. The speaker is a young man, presumably the poet himself, and the lyric is an expression of his views and attitudes. The other character is the poet's neighbour, an ol…

Richard Wilbur is the most renowned modern American poet , of 20th century. The freshness of his imagery, diversity of his themes and the handling of complex stanza forms make his poetry impressive and charming. Wilbur has a variety of striking techniques in his poetry. The tone in his poems vary from the light a…