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In Blackwater Woods is a free verse poem written by Mary Oliver (1935–2019). The poem was first published in 1983 in her collection American Primitive , which won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize . [ 1 ] The poem, like much of Oliver's work, uses imagery of nature to make a statement about human experience.
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
"The World Is Too Much With Us" is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).
The poem uses the image of a flowering plant - specifically that of a chasmophyte rooted in the wall of the wishing well - as a source of inspiration for mystical/metaphysical speculation [1] and is one of multiple poems where Tennyson touches upon the topic of the relationships between God, nature, and human life. [2]
The poem was published in the October 1796 Monthly Magazine, [22] under the title Reflections on Entering into Active Life. A poem Which Affects Not to be Poetry. [23] Reflections was included in Coleridge's 28 October 1797 collection of poems and the anthologies that followed. [22] The themes of Reflections are similar to those of The Eolian Harp.
Like many of Poe's works, the poem focuses on the death of a beautiful woman, a death which the mourning narrator struggles to deal with while considering the nature of death and life. Some lines seem to echo the poem "Christabel" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poet known to have had a heavy influence on Poe's poetry. [39]
The olfactory imagery of the cellar's rankness, presented largely in a litany following the sixth line, blends with the tactile nature of the "slippery planks" in the ninth line. Strong stresses and spondees , emphasized by consistent alliteration and slant rhymes , evince the same action and vitality in language that the speaker of the poem ...
The poem concludes with the line "I have wasted my life." The line is one of the most highly regarded and widely debated lines in contemporary poetry, [2] [1] and has often been seen as having had cemented Wright's poetic legacy. [3] The line has been widely interpreted.