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‘Crossing the Bar’ is a four-stanza poem that’s divided into sets of four lines, known as quatrains. These quatrains follow a consistent rhyme scheme of ABAB. The lengths of the lines vary, but the first and third tend to be a bit longer than the second and fourth.
Summary ‘The Ocean’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short sanguine poem about the peace that lost sailors find, after death, in the depths of the ocean. The poem begins by describing the ocean as having different sections. The deep and lonely recesses, such as “silent caves,” the furious waves on the surface, and the peaceful ocean floor.
Summary ‘Ode to the West Wind’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley focuses on the west wind, a powerful and destructive force, yet a necessary one. In the first lines, the speaker addresses the wind and describes how it creates deadly storms. It drives away the summer and brings with it the cold and darkness of winter.
“Ode to the West Wind” is a poem written by the English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. According to Shelley, the poem was written in the woods outside Florence, Italy in the autumn of 1819. In the poem, the speaker directly addresses the west wind.
"The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean" was written by the American poet Robinson Jeffers in 1940, not long after the start of WWII. The poem's speaker, anxious about the state of the world, is wandering along the coast when he comes across a wild boar digging through the dirt for food.
Here is the poem we should probably correctly call ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’, along with a short analysis of its themes, meaning, and language. Summary Let us begin by taking each stanza of the poem and exploring (and summarising) its meaning.
‘Ode to the West Wind’ is one of the best-known and best-loved poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). It is a quintessential Romantic poem. But what does it mean? Its closing words are well-known and often quoted, but how does the rest of the poem build towards them?
