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Shoot Me with Flowers, The British Library, 23 November 2021 – Asgard's first book of poems acquired for the British Library's collection "John Agard: Making Waves at the BBC". The Poetry Society. John Agard at British Council: Literature (includes extensive bibliography) John Agard at the National Maritime Museum
As much as we may want—or need—to write a love poem, it’s often difficult to find a language that adequately expresses the way we feel. For one thing, it’s hard to strike the right tone.
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 ...
Opening his poem with verse by Pablo Neruda, Patten's poem argues that it is the act of remembrance which offers family members the best antidote to the anguish of loss. In tackling the subject of grief, Patten views poetry as performing an important social function: "Poetry helps us understand what we’ve forgotten to remember.
Today’s column is written by David L. Harrison, host of Poetry from Daily Life. He lives with his wife Sandy, a retired school counselor and businesswoman, in Springfield, Missouri. This is the ...
Ella's poem plaque at San Francisco's Jack Kerouac Alley.. None of Wilcox's works were included by F. O. Matthiessen in The Oxford Book of American Verse, but Hazel Felleman chose fourteen of her poems for Best Loved Poems of the American People, while Martin Gardner selected "The Way Of The World" and "The Winds of Fate" for Best Remembered Poems.
It is one of novelist David Mitchell's favorite pieces of writing. [10] The poem's final line has been hailed as one of the greatest lines in modern poetry. [2] [1] [3] [6] Although there were degrees of polarization about the line's abrasiveness, it has been credited as influential in the development of deep image and modernist poetry. [11]
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