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Joanne Kyger (November 19, 1934 – March 22, 2017) was an American poet.The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New York School.
Both poems explore power, sexual love, and nature but from slightly different stances. While "Hortus" stresses the opposition between sexual love and the love of nature by suggesting that nature tames love, “The Garden” deems sexual love as a threat to nature and the contemplative life sought in the Garden.
According to the critic Carl Woodring, "She Dwelt" can also be read as an elegy. He views the poem and the Lucy series in general as elegiac "in the sense of sober meditation on death or a subject related to death", and that they have "the economy and the general air of epitaphs in the Greek Anthology ... if all elegies are mitigations of death, the Lucy poems are also meditations on simple ...
[7] Although Harvey has said that she "didn't set out to write political poems," but to explore "that idea of living in the middle of contradiction—in the grey area, between yes and no," [8] the two poems were nonetheless acclaimed by The New York Times as "among the most arresting poems yet written about the current American political ...
Older readers may understand the desire to look for arrowheads while out walking: to "hold one in my hand / I want to touch the tip of history."" [2] Rachel E. Schwedt and Janice DeLong in their book Young Adult Poetry said that "the simple language makes the poems accessible, while the astute reflections encourage an awareness of the ...
The following is the list of 244 poems attributed to Philip Larkin. Untitled poems are identified by their first lines and marked with an ellipsis.Completion dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format, and are tagged "(best known date)" if the date is not definitive.
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Moods of my own Mind (1807); Poems of the Fancy: 1807 It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown 1803 "It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown," Moods of my own Mind (1807); Poems of the Imagination: 1807 Departure from the vale of Grasmere, August 1803 (I) 1811 "The gentlest Shade that walked Elysian plains" Memorials of a Tour in Scotland ...