Darkness

Darkness is a narrative poem written by Lord Byron in 1816 during a period of extraordinary climatic and personal turmoil following the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which led to a year with...

The Circus Animals’ Desertion

The Circus Animal's Desertion is a poem by William Butler Yeats, published in 1939 as part of his final poetry collection, The Winding Stair and Other Poems. It is often seen as Yeats's reflection on ...

General’s ‘Powerful’ Tank

General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle is a poem by Bertolt Brecht, found in his Svendborg Poems collection, written while he was in Danish exile from Nazi Germany. The poem is also known as General...

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost is a poem that delves into the theme of decision-making and the complexity of choices in life. It presents a speaker standing at a fork in the road, metaphorically r...

Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan is a renowned poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797 and published in 1816. It's often considered one of Coleridge's most famous and enigmatic works. Coleridge claimed that Kubla ...

Nani

The poem Nani by Kamala Das critiques societal inequality and the exploitation of marginalised individuals. Nani, the housemaid, symbolises poor, marginalised and victimised women in the feudal world....

Ritusamhara

Kalidasa’s Ritusamhara is an ode to Nature’s bounty and its enduring emotional response to humanity. The word Ritu (season) with the word saṃhāra is used here in the sense of “coming together” or “gro...

Journey to the Interior

Margaret Eleanor Atwood's Journey to the Interior is a metaphysical poem with the recurring motif of ‘journey’ that Atwood explores in other works like Surfacing. It portrays an inward journey describ...

Agony

Anil Gharai is arguably one of the most significant authors of Bangla Dalit literature who has authored 74 books. His works deal with the stark everyday realities of people on the margins and the comp...

A Challenge to Fate

Belonging to the period of pre-independence, Sarojini Naidu attracted the younger generation of India through her genuine verse. Her poems tell us of her fantasies and longings, her memory, her moment...