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The Eye of the Earth is a collection of poems by Niyi Osundare, published in 1986 by Heinemann Educational Books. The work was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the African poetry book category, and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize in its year of publication. The collection comprises nineteen poems that explore nature ...
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 ...
Life on Earth: Poems is a 2024 poetry collection by Dorianne Laux, published by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] Laux's seventh collection, it was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry. [2]
"Earth's Answer" is a poem by William Blake within his larger collection called Songs of Innocence and of Experience (published 1794). [2] It is the response to the previous poem in The Songs of Experience-- Introduction (Blake, 1794). In the Introduction, the bard asks the Earth to wake up and claim ownership. In this poem, the feminine Earth ...
Turtle Island is a book of poems and essays written by Gary Snyder and published by New Directions in 1974. The writings express Snyder's vision for humans to live in harmony with the earth and all its creatures. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1975. [1] "
Nieobjeta ziemia ("Unattainable Earth") is a poetry collection, together with prose, aphorisms, letters and fragments, by Nobel Prize-winning Polish writer Czesław Miłosz. It was first published in 1984. It was translated into English by the author and Robert Hass in 1986. [1] [2]
The metaphor looks to science in referencing an imagined land mass that once comprised all of the earth on the planet. By including science, Arnold expertly leads into his bitter complaint that the God of his modern world does not provide the same kind of faith and hope that he once did when facts and teleological reasoning weren't so important.
Smith linked the poem to William Cowper's blank verse poem The Task (1785), both in the preface to the work and in her correspondence with publishers. In 1792, she wrote to the bookseller J. Dodsley for advice on publishing The Emigrants, saying it is written "in the way of the Task--only of course inferior to it" and saying that the final draft of the poem "will be corrected by the very first ...