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‘Anon’ by Carol Ann Duffy discusses female anonymity throughout history, especially in regard to the canon of literature. Duffy suggests that women have been forgotten throughout history, their talents going unnoticed, and shortened to ‘Anon’.
Summary, themes, line-by-line analysis, poetic devices, form, meter, rhyme scheme, and more. Full definitions of each term with color-coded examples, followed by additional resources. The full play, poem, or sonnet alongside the modern English translation mapped by colors.
Summary & Analysis. Sylvia Plath wrote “Lady Lazarus” in 1962, during an intense burst of creative energy that shortly preceded her death by suicide, early in 1963. This creative burst led to the composition of many of Plath’s most famous poems, which were collected in the posthumous volume of 1965, Ariel.
Summary. ‘The Wife’s Lament’ by Anonymous is a multi-layered poem in which a speaker expresses her deep sorrow over her husband’s departure. Depending on how one interprets the poem, that departure might refer to his death, his betrayal of her, or his travels to another country.
‘The Wanderer’ is a long Old English poem in which the speaker details the life and struggles of a wanderer. In the first part of this piece, the speaker describes a wanderer, someone who lost everything that meant something to him.
A short summary of Anonymous's Beowulf. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Beowulf.
Summary. A series of three poems open Ceremony. The first poem tells of Ts'its'tsi'nako, thought-woman, the spider, who created the world with her sisters by thinking and naming things. The poem ends with the lines: "I'm telling you the story she is thinking."
