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Clough wrote the short poem "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth", a rousing call invoking military metaphors to keep up the good fight; which fight is unspecified, but it was written in the wake of the defeat of Chartism in 1848. Other short poems include "Through a Glass Darkly", an exploration of Christian faith and doubt, and "The Latest ...
It was written in 1849, and first published in The Crayon, an American art journal, in August 1855, under the title "The Struggle". [1] Clough published the poem without a title in 1862. [ 1 ] In The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough , 1869, the poem was titled "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" .
The collection contained sixty-eight short poems written in Crane's sparse, unconventional style. The untitled "lines", as Crane referred to them, were differentiated by Roman numerals and written entirely in small capitals. [3] Crane was 23 years old when the book was published. [4]
As a choreopoem, the piece is a series of 20 separate poems choreographed to music that weaves interconnected stories of love, empowerment, struggle and loss into a complex representation of sisterhood. The cast consists of seven nameless African-American women only identified by the colors they are assigned.
"Mother to Son" is a 1922 poem by American writer and activist Langston Hughes. The poem follows a mother speaking to her son about her life, which she says "ain't been no crystal stair". She first describes the struggles she has faced and then urges him to continue moving forward.
The short poem In Memoriam exemplifies how his poetry blends the themes of war and the countryside. On 11 November 1985, Thomas was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey 's Poet's Corner . [ 34 ]
The poet's own struggle with deafness from his early twenties features in the work Badhiravilapam. [3] Other celebrated short poems of Vallathol include Sishyanum Makanum, Virasinkala, Achanum Makalum, Divaswapnam, and Ente Gurukulam. [3] A 1978 commemorative stamp of India in honour of Vallathol
His life could be described as a struggle against defeatism with one oft-quoted aphorism of his is that "life is not despair, and death shall not rule". William Heinesen (second from right) with his friends and contemporaries Janus Djurhuus , Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen , and Hans Andrias Djurhuus .