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  2. Carver: A Life in Poems - Wikipedia

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    "Drifter": A short poem on unanswered questions with hidden meaning, such as “why rain falls, what makes corn proud and squash so humble." [2] "The Perceiving Self" (Written in Fort Scott, Kansas): A detailed description of the sighting of George Carver. Carver, “the music shaped and colored by brown lips, white teeth, pink tongue." [2]

  3. A Psalm of Life - Wikipedia

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    Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...

  4. Bedros Tourian - Wikipedia

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    Of the writings he produced in his short life, only 41 poems, fifteen letters, seven plays, nine articles and one eulogy by Tourian are known to have survived. [22] [d] Tourian wrote poems on themes of patriotism, unrequited love, premature death, nature, and sentiments of loneliness and hopelessness.

  5. Father of Parkland shooting victim shares son's poem: 'Life ...

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    The free-verse poem, titled "Life Is Like A Roller Coaster," is heartbreaking in retrospect. In the short piece, Alex described how throughout life, we experience multiple ups and downs, but that ...

  6. Louise Bogan - Wikipedia

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    Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker. [1] Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor Brett C. Millier described her as "one of the finest lyric poets America has produced." He said, "the fact that she was a woman and that she defended formal, lyric poetry in an ...

  7. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale Law School and former lawyer who switched careers to become a children ...

  9. Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth - Wikipedia

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    It was written in 1849, and first published in The Crayon, an American art journal, in August 1855, under the title "The Struggle". [1] Clough published the poem without a title in 1862. [ 1 ] In The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough , 1869, the poem was titled "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" .