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Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934-1994 (1994) Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems (1991) Shadowing the Ground (1991) If We Knew (Polymorph Editions, 1991) New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985 (1986) Leaving the Door Open (1984) Whisper to the Earth (1981) Conversations (1980) Sunlight (1979) Tread the Dark (1978) Selected Poems ...
Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1798 Her eyes are Wild 1798 Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) 1798 Simon Lee 1798
Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIII. Songs of Parting) ; The Patriotic Poems IV (Poems of Democracy) 1865 Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours " Yet, yet, ye downcast hours, I know ye also," Leaves of Grass (Book XXX. Whispers of Heavenly Death) 1860 Yonnondio " A song, a poem of itself—the word itself a dirge," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV. Sands at Seventy)
Whitman's musings in this passage flesh out one of the most critically discussed themes of the poem: the experience of the Self. The first version of the poem not in draft form was included as the third part of a poem collection called “Whispers of Heavenly Death,” published in The Broadway. A London Magazine in 1868. This first publication ...
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
In the poem, a large, strong black whale is used as a symbol that represents "the destructive power of American slaves in revolt against white society." [16] An early version of the metaphor in Whitman's notebook read: [2] Beware the Flukes of the whale. He is slow and sleepy—but when he moves, his lightest touch is death.
The poem was reprinted under its full title "Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" for Wordsworth's collection Poems (1815). The reprinted version also contained an epigraph that, according to Henry Crabb Robinson, was added at Crabb's suggestion. [10] The epigraph was from "My Heart Leaps Up". [13]
Wikkrama Sinha's first book of verse, Lustre: Poems (Kandy, 1965 ), was written entirely in English. Feeling constrained by his education to write in the language of what he believed to be 'the most despicable people on earth', he set himself to write as anarchically as possible. [3] His later work, however, did not reflect this mood.