‘The Future never spoke –’: with these simple four words, Emily Dickinson begins one of her finest meditations on the unknowability of the future. Although ‘The Future never spoke’ does not present the challenges some of Dickinson’s more formidably cryptic poems pose, some words of analysis may nevertheless prove helpful. […]
To attempt an analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a single blog post: surely a foolhardy objective if ever there was one. So here we’ll try to focus on some of the key points of Hamlet and analyse their significance, homing in on some of the most interesting as well as […]
Last week, we offered a short summary of Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, although given how long the poem is, ‘short’ here wasn’t all that short. Still, now it’s time to offer some words of analysis of this, one of Keats’s most celebrated poems. Keats reportedly took just two or […]