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"The Centipede's Dilemma" is a short poem that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome.The centipede effect occurs when a normally automatic or unconscious activity is disrupted by consciousness of it or reflection on it.
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Sylvia M. Vardell, who lives in Dallas, Texas. When asked how she became interested in poetry, Sylvia says, “My parents are German immigrants and ...
The book is a collection of Seamus Heaney's poems published between 1966 and 1996. It includes poems from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Stations (1975), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996).
The Tables Turned is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1798 and published in his Lyrical Ballads. [1]The poem is mainly about the importance of nature.It says that books are just barren leaves that provide empty knowledge, and that nature is the best teacher which can teach more about human, evil and good.
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Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. [1] She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 2011 collection Life on Mars.
One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of ...