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"Education for Leisure" is a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy which explores the mind of a person who is planning to commit a murder. [1] Until 2008 the poem was studied at GCSE level in England and Wales as part of the AQA Anthology, a collection of poems by modern poets such as Duffy and Seamus Heaney.
To catch all the apples, you see. It looked like a picnic for me, But just then the limb broke; holy gee! And I broke seven bones And half-killed Maggie Jones In the shade of the old apple tree. Ramblin' Jack Elliott recorded a parody version entitled "Shade of the Old Apple Tree," included on his 1964 album Jack Elliott:
Apples and Snakes, based at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, south-east London, is an organisation for performance poetry and the spoken word in England. [4] It has been described as the main organisation promoting performance poetry in Britain. [ 5 ]
But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 March on Washington.
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. [1] (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse.
"After Apple-Picking" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost. It was published in 1914 in North of Boston , Frost's second poetry collection. [ 1 ] The poem, 42 lines in length, does not strictly follow a particular form (instead consisting of mixed iambs), nor does it follow a standard rhyme scheme.
It is especially remembered for its two final lines: "The silver apples of the moon,/ The golden apples of the sun." The poem is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantastical experience in which a silver trout he had caught and laid on the floor turned into a "glimmering girl" who called him by his ...
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