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A pastoral elegy by Walt Whitman for President Abraham Lincoln, written in 1865 after his assassination. The poem uses natural imagery and free verse to express grief, pity, and acceptance of death.
Le Spleen de Paris is a collection of 50 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire, published posthumously in 1869. The poems explore themes of pleasure, intoxication, the artist, women, and mortality in the modern city of Paris.
A narrative poem by Robert Frost about the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively. The poem expresses some irony regarding the idea of "following your own path" and is based on his friend Edward Thomas, who was often indecisive.
The Waste Land is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot, published in 1922, that explores themes of disillusionment, despair, and fragmentation. The poem draws on diverse sources of literature, myth, and culture, and is divided into five sections.
Le Lac is a famous romantic poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, published in 1820. It expresses the poet's nostalgia for a lost love and his wish to stop the passage of time at a beautiful lake.
Syringa vulgaris, also known as lilac or common lilac, is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to the Balkan Peninsula. It has scented flowers in various colors, usually lilac to mauve, and is widely cultivated and naturalized in Europe, Asia and North America.
The poem identifies “Paradise” with the time when “man there walked without a mate.” [18] [19] As critic Nicholas Murray comments, the Edenic state in "The Garden" is a "state of unsexual bliss where pleasure was solitary.” [20] Critic Jonathan Crewe argues that the phrase "garden-state" "captures the tendency of Renaissance pastoral ...
A fictional tale by Jean Giono about a shepherd who re-forested a barren valley in the Alps. Learn about the plot, background, adaptations and related works of this allegorical story.