A brief summary and analysis of the Andrew Marvell poem ‘The Mower to the Glow-Worms’ Andrew Marvell’s poem ‘The Mower to the Glow-Worms’ is one of the little jewels in the crown of seventeenth-century poetry. Marvell (1621-78) was one of the Metaphysical Poets and ‘The Mower to the Glow-Worms’ is […]
An introduction to the poem ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ by W. B. Yeats ‘He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’ is one of W. B. Yeats‘s (1865-1939) most popular poems. It’s also one of his shortest – just eight lines in all. Since we started to offer […]
A summary and analysis of ‘For the Fallen’, the poem of war commemoration by Laurence Binyon Laurence Binyon’s ‘For the Fallen’ (1914) is one of the most widely quoted poems of the First World War. Unlike Wilfred Owen’s ‘Futility’, it wasn’t written from the trenches but by a poet back […]