In a rich and fruitful land, 

Babes reducd to misery, 

Fed with cold and usurous hand? 

Is that trembling cry a song? 

Can it be a song of joy? 

And so many children poor? 

It is a land of poverty! 

And their sun does never shine. 

And their fields are bleak & bare. 

And their ways are fill'd with thorns. 

It is eternal winter there. 

For where-e'er the sun does shine, 

And where-e'er the rain does fall: 

Babe can never hunger there, 

Nor poverty the mind appall.

summary: On Holy Thursday (Ascension Day), the clean-scrubbed charity-school children of London flow like a river toward St. Paul’s Cathedral. Dressed in bright colors they march double-file, supervised by “gray headed beadles.” Seated in the cathedral, the children form a vast and radiant multitude. They remind the speaker of a company of lambs sitting by the thousands and “raising their innocent hands” in prayer. Then they begin to sing, sounding like “a mighty wind” or “harmonious thunderings,” while their guardians, “the aged men,” stand by. The speaker, moved by the pathos of the vision of the children in church, urges the reader to remember that such urchins as these are actually angels of God.

Title: My Heart Leaps up 

Period: Romantics

Author: William Wordsworth (the night of March 26, 1802. Earlier that day, he had written "To The Cuckoo". He was in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister, Dorothy. After he wrote it he often thought about altering it, but decided to leave it as it was originally written. It was published as part of Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.)

Charanteristic: Individual

Author Reason: 

"My Heart Leaps Up" describes the pure delight the speaker feels upon seeing a rainbow. This joy prompts the speaker to reflect on the passing of time and the significance of childhood. It is in childhood, the poem argues, that people first feel a sense of powerful awe and wonder at the natural world around them.

The works about  nature, childhood, beauty and aging.  The main theme of this work, like most of his poetry, is nature and the beauty within.  For him, nature is the true embodiment of God.  A glimpse of a rainbow is like catching a glimpse of a divine entity.  The rainbow is nothing but a bridge that connects the poet with the spiritual self.  He wanted to never lose touch with nature even if he grew old.  The theme of childhood is another important aspect of this work.  This theme is present on the third and seventh lines.  Additionally, the theme of aging is featured in the fifth row.

There’s nothing that I really want:

The stars tonight are rich and cold

Above my house that vaguely broods

Upon a path soon lost in dark.

My dinner plate is chipped all round

(It tells me that I’ve changed a lot);

My glass is cracked all down one side

(It shows there is a path for me).

My hands—I rest my head on them.

My eyes—I rest my mind on them.

There’s nothing that I really need

Before I set out on that path.

Period : Contemporary

The characteristic : Contempt and grateful 

Author’s profile : Kevin John Hart (born 5 July 1954) is an Anglo-Australian theologian, philosopher and poet. He is currently Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia.

Author’s reason : Kevin Hart describes his endeavors of following of his intended path. This can be seen in the last stanza when Hart says “Before I set out on that path” as he is about to embark on this journey. Also, Hart mentions how there is “nothing that” he really needs in order to complete this journey, so he already has everything that he already needs. He has his thoughts and the sky to guide him, and the plate and glass directing him in the right path. He is all set and repetitively says that he does not need anything at all. This repetition is significant because it clearly states what the poet wants through simply not desiring anything at all. He truly believes that he has everything that he will ever need with his thoughts and the stars in the sky.

Summarize : This poem explains a man life and the meaning of certain inanimate objects that he feels show certain things in his life. This poem uses certain everyday objects and it says exactly how the author feels about them and what he thinks the message and meaning behind that object is. This allows for the reader to determine the authors emotion and the message of the poem, by analyzing his words and the symbolism that the author includes in his writing. The use of personification and symbolism in this poem allows for the readers to better understand where the author is coming from.

Period: Modern

When: 2001 abad 20

Characteristic: Fantasy Adventure

Profile of the Author: Yann Martel, (born 25 June 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories.

Life of Pi tells the magical story of a young Indian, who finds himself shipwrecked and lost at sea in a large sloop. His friends are four wild animals: an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena and, most notably, Richard Parker, a tiger.

All the events that we go through are a way for us to learn to be even better and teach us to do good to all living things, but in our own way.