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  2. The Dry Salvages - Wikipedia

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    Many of the images connect back to his earlier works. The images of life as boat adrift with a leak is similar to the "Death by Water" section of The Waste Land. Like images about old age and experience found in East Coker, this image reinforces the need to look at the whole of life and try to see things beyond the limitations of time. Men are ...

  3. Fra Lippo Lippi (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Throughout this poem, Browning depicts a 15th-century real-life painter, Filippo Lippi. The poem asks the question whether art should be true to life or an idealized image of life. The poem is written in blank verse, non-rhyming iambic pentameter. A secondary theme of the dramatic monologue is the Church's influence on art.

  4. Life on Mars (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled." [ 3 ] Jollimore praised the poem "My God, It’s Full of Stars" as "particularly strong, making use of images from science and science fiction to articulate human desire and grief."

  5. Life Studies - Wikipedia

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    Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics (including Helen Vendler , Steven Gould Axelrod , Adam Kirsch , and others) consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books. [ 1 ]

  6. The Man with the Hoe - Wikipedia

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    The poem was first presented as a public poetry reading at a New Year's Eve party in 1898. It was soon published in the San Francisco Examiner in January 1899 after its editor heard it at the same party. [2] The poem was also reprinted in other newspapers across the United States due to a chorus of acclaim. [2]

  7. The Blossom - Wikipedia

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    This poem is full of cheerful images of life, such as the "leaves so green", and "happy blossom". The poem tells the tale of two different birds: a sparrow and a robin. The former is clearly content with its existence, whereas the latter is distraught with it, meaning the second stanza becomes full of negative, depressing images.

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  9. The Village Blacksmith - Wikipedia

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    The poem describes a local blacksmith and his daily life. The blacksmith serves as a role model who balances his job with the role he plays with his family and community. Years after its publication, a tree mentioned in the poem was cut down and part of it was made into an armchair which was then presented to Longfellow by local schoolchildren.