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The poem is one of Clare's most famous protestation poems. Swordy Well in Marholm, now Swaddywell, is an area of scientific interest. The Langdyke Countryside Trust established Swaddywell Pit nature reserve in 2003. [1] Poet Paul Farley celebrated Clare's work through this poem on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. [2]
"A Song for Simeon" is a 37-line poem written in free verse. The poem does not have a consistent pattern of meter. The lines range in length from three syllables to fifteen syllables. Eliot uses end rhyme sporadically in 21 lines of the poem, specifically: [1] [2] and, hand, stand, and land (in lines 1, 3, 5, 7) poor and door (lines 10 and 12)
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut is a 2017 picture book by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James.The book, Barnes' first picture book, is a poem describing a boy's feelings and experience while getting a haircut.
Print shows Maud Muller, John Greenleaf Whittier's heroine in the poem of the same name, leaning on her hay rake, gazing into the distance. Behind her, an ox cart, and in the distance, the village "Maud Muller" is a poem from 1856 written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). It is about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller.
"Tamerlane" is the Latinized name of a 14th-century historical figure.. The main themes of "Tamerlane" are independence and pride [3] as well as loss and exile. [4] Poe may have written the poem based on his own loss of his early love, Sarah Elmira Royster, [5] his birth mother Eliza Poe, or his foster-mother Frances Allan. [4]
"Lady Lazarus" and Sylvia Plath's poetry catalog falls under the literary genre of Confessional poetry.. According to the American poet and critic, Macha Rosenthal, Plath's poetry is confessional due to the way that she uses psychological shame and vulnerability, centers herself as the speaker, and represents the civilization she is living in. [1] Her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, has ...
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Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima , each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter .