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Graverini, however, argues that the "most reasonable assumption" is that the poem's author was a woman. [26] If the inscription is a love poem written by one woman to another, it is the only such poem known to survive from the ancient Latin-speaking world. [27] The first three verses of the poem focus on the beloved, [28] and comment on her ...
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights; Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist; Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English poet; Elizabeth Jessup Eames (1813–1856), American writer of prose and poetry; George Eliot (born Marian Evans, 1819–1880), English novelist and poet
Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
Kamala Das: Treatment of Love in Her Poetry.indear Kumar Gulbarga: JIWE, 1999. "Cheated and Exploited: Women in Kamala Das's Short Stories", In Mohan G Ramanan and P. Sailaja (eds.). English and the Indian Short Story. New Delhi: Orient Longman (2000).117–123 "Man-Woman Relationship with Respect to the Treatment of Love in Kamala Das' Poetry".
"She Walks in Beauty" is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1814 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. [2] It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life. On 11 June 1814, Byron attended a party in London. Among the guests was Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, wife of Byron's first cousin, Sir Robert Wilmot ...
The poem is the best known of Wordsworth's series of five works which comprise his "Lucy" series, and was a favorite amongst early readers. [1] It was composed both as a meditation on his own feelings of loneliness and loss, and as an ode to the beauty and dignity of an idealized woman who lived unnoticed by all others except by the poet himself.
The Dream of a Common Language is a work of poetry written by award-winning author and activist Adrienne Rich. The book is divided into three sections: first "Power"; second "Twenty One Love Poems"; third "Not Somewhere Else, But Here". [1] The collection of poems was the first book Rich published after she came out as a lesbian in 1976.
The poems are about love. They are written as frank monologues usually by a married woman, or an unmarried girl. [ 1 ] They often express her unrequited feelings and longings to her friend, mother or another relative, lover, husband or to herself. [ 1 ]