Excuse Me, the Author Is Dead What can I do, friend Except carry on this burden called life? All through my time I’ve sold cheap stuff For a living, a common salesman; Now that I’m exhausted, do I have the guts To commit suicide? Nah! My mind has the skinContinue Reading
Emergency Ward The emergency ward is prelude to heavenly peace Patients lying in rows of beds With or without oxygen masks, and Saline bottles hanging from their side-stands A lonely fly passing from bed to bed Senior Doctors are like God’s messengers He finds out a pair of understanding eyesContinue Reading
Autumn: An Epitaph Autumn comes no more to this country But we’ve memories of the season, Red cotton-candies inside glass boxes, and Children running after the candy man’s bell We invested our life’s savings. Our neighborhood birds woke up somewhat late Trying to adjust with the teasing chill, We’d grownContinue Reading
Let whatever is gone be bygone If it is deeply personal Shut up your sorrow in the deep recesses of your psyche And shine your teeth or gums on You’re a modern man, a nobody, Your losses don’t matter to none Except the one that is yourself So, let bygonesContinue Reading
Pope explains that “machinery” is a term invented by the critics to signify the part which deities, angles, or demons play in a poem. He goes on to say that the machinery in this poem is based on the Rosicrucian doctrine of spirits in which the four elements are inhabitedContinue Reading
The Rape of the Lock (1712; revised 1714) is a mock-epic poem by Alexander Pope, widely considered one of the finest examples of satire in English literature. Written in heroic couplets, the poem humorously exaggerates a trivial social incident—a young nobleman’s theft of a lock of hair from a high-societyContinue Reading
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was one of the most influential English poets of the 18th century, known for his satirical verse, mastery of the heroic couplet, and sharp wit. Born in London to a Roman Catholic family, Pope faced religious discrimination that limited his access to formal education. Nevertheless, he wasContinue Reading
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, widely regarded as a master of macabre and gothic literature. Born in Boston, Poe was orphaned at a young age and raised by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. Though he had a turbulent relationship withContinue Reading
The personified mirror is “silver” (in appearance) and “exact” (it reflects the image accurately). By itself the mirror does what it is supposed to do, it mirrors. Not being opinionated, it is unbiased, reflecting the image exactly as it is. Traditionally the poem has been considered to deal with theContinue Reading
