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About the Poet:         Poet and dramatist, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) lived and worked during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Shakespeare began writing for the stage in the late 1580s. Shakespeare's earliest work as a dramatist was history plays. After this, he wrote numerous plays and poems, among the better known ones being comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, tragedies such as Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear, while his fourteen-line poems were collected in Sonnets (printed in 1609). All The World's A Stage tells you that all the men and women are mere characters in the drama, which is played on the stage (in the world). 'They have their exits and their entrances'; this means that all the people take birth and then die after a certain period of time. SUMMARY          ...

About the Poet:                  Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61) was one of the most popular and highly regarded poets of the Victorian era. Her talent for writing was evident from a tender age. Although she was always in ill health throughout her life, her literary output was prolific. The respect for her work was such that she was considered for the position of Poet Laureate. The poet Robert Browning greatly admired her work and courted her. They married and moved to Italy, where she spent the rest of her life. She is best remembered for the poem How do I love thee? and the verse novel Aurora Leigh.  About the Poem: 'How Do I Love Thee' is a famous love poem and was first published in a collection, Sonnets from the Portuguese in 1850. The poem deals with the speaker's passionate adoration of her beloved with vivid pictures of her eternal bond that will keep her connected to her belove...

About the Poet: "The Duck and the Kangaroo" is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear. It was first published in Lear's 1870 collection,  Nonsense Songs . The poem depicts a dialogue between a pond-bound duck and the kangaroo who represents the duck's greatest chance at freedom. The duck persuades the kangaroo to take the duck around the world on its back. While "The Duck and the Kangaroo" do not share the structure or the precise meter of Lear's  limericks , his greatest claim to fame, the poem includes Lear's signature wordplay and his use of  anthropomorphism , in which he gives animal characters very human traits and interactions) . About the Poem:                The Duck  explains that its own life in the pond is boring and that it wants to explore the world. It could fulfil its dream if it could hop like the  Kangaroo .  The Duck  asks the  Kangaroo  for a ride on th...

About the Poet: "To Autumn" is an  ode  by the English Romantic poet John Keats written in 1819. It is the last of his six odes (which include " Ode to a Nightingale " and " Ode on a Grecian Urn "), which are some of the most studied and celebrated poems in the English language. The poem praises autumn, describing its abundance, harvest, and transition into winter, and uses intense, sensuous imagery to elevate the the fleeting beauty of the moment. "To Autumn" is the last major work that Keats completed before his death in Rome, in 1821, where the 25-year-old succumbed to tuberculosis. About the Poem: You work to make so much fruit grow that it weighs down the branches of the mossy apple trees that grow outside the farmhouses. Together, you and the sun make every fruit completely ripe. You make gourds swell and hazel shells grow fat with a sweet nut inside. Autumn is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness...