We Are The Music Makers is an ode to the ones who dream and create. It is a tribute to artists, poets, writers and musicians who shape the world through their art.
The Darkling Thrush is a fine example of a poem which engages with a recurrent theme present across a bulk of Victorian Literature and visible throughout Hardy’s oeuvre: the interplay between Hope and Despair. The element of Nature is masterfully handled in this poem to bring out the contrasting forces of Hope and Despair and its significance to humanity.
The poem Endymion was dedicated to Thomas Chatterton and was described by Keats as “A trial of my powers of imagination”. Initially, this poem was hated by critics, and was called “drivelling idiocy”. This was contributed to by the fact that Keats was not formally educated and was deemed as “lower class”. However, this poem is now recognized and acclaimed the world over and is one of Keats’ most well-known works.
The Cold Within is a poem which seeks to hold a mirror against humanity reflecting how it has degenerated. Human beings have created many division among themselves like class, caste, race, religion, gender etc.
Composed by Tennyson in 1889, three years before he died, Crossing the Bar is an intensely personal poem which engages with the themes of old age, faith, doubt, life and death.
A prose poem replete with wisdom and positivity, Desiderata encapsulates some timeless truths which we can revisit to better understand and appreciate this life of ours.
Dusk is a short story by Saki (H.H. Munro) that relates a tale about three characters and the events that take place one fine evening in London. All three represent people who are failures or are defeated, and all three are portrayed differently.
he Third Level by Jack Finney was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1952 and deals with themes of escapism and the desire for peace
To Sleep by William Wordsworth is poem is written as a sonnet by the poet dedicated to Sleep. . This poem is written in the form of a sonnet in which Sleep is the poet’s Muse and is personified as a person that can hear, understand and respond to him and his pleas.
Going Places is a short story by A. R. Barton which presents the perceptions, dreams and desires of an adolescent girl. The readers get a glimpse in the life of the protagonist, Sophie: her relationship with her friends and family, her socio-economic position and her dreams and fantasies. Dealing with …