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Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem [1] and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States . [ 2 ]
The Unknown Citizen" is a poem written by W. H. Auden in 1939, shortly after he moved from England to the United States. The poem was first published on January 6, 1940 in The New Yorker , and first appeared in book form in Auden's collection Another Time ( Random House , 1940).
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". [1] There was probably no specific event in the poet's mind, although the failed revolutions of 1848 and 1849 may have been an inspiration. [1] [2]
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. [8] It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas.
A Latin honorific meaning "Father of the Country", or more literally, "Father of the Fatherland". pater peccavi: Father, I have sinned: The traditional beginning of a Roman Catholic confession. pauca sed bona: few, but good: Similar to "quality over quantity"; though there may be few of something, at least they are of good quality. pauca sed matura
After studying the text and concluding that the poem was composed by Lincoln, he announced his discovery in a 2004 newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Lincoln scholars are still split on the authenticity of the poem. The poem is in the form of a suicide note, written by a man about to kill himself on the banks of the Sangamo River.
This Is Just to Say (Wall poem in The Hague) "This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it were a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [2] [3]