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The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Born Yesterday," by Philip Larkin. It focuses on the purpose of the poem in memorializing the birth of a baby, the poem's use of formalism, and the ending of the poem in a rhyming couplet. The themes of the poem are also discussed, including maturity, happiness, and wishes on behalf of another person.

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Saint Judas," by American poet James Wright. It examines the religious themes in the work, including charity, empathy, and selflessness, as well as the role of the biblical character of Judas. The author discusses the poem's rhyme scheme, sonnet structure, and use of dramatic monologue and emphasizes the significance of irony in the work.

The article critiques the psychoanalytic interpretation of the narrator's terrifying nightmares in poet Alfred Tennyson's dramatic monologues "Lucretius." It explores fear of the woman in Lucretius's third nightmare, the materialization of Helen's breast in Tennyson's poem, and the interpretation of sexual desire in Lucretius literature of De Rerum Natura.