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“Mad Girl's Love Song” is a poem by Sylvia Plath that explores love, heartbreak, and delusion. It follows the thought process of the speaker reflecting on a lost love, and struggling to decide whether the memories and feelings associated with the love were real or imagined.
Jelly Roll: A Blues is a 2003 poetry collection by Kevin Young. The 208-page book – Young's third – is named for jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton and develops a blues-based collection of love poems, [1] written predominantly in two-line stanzas. [2] In 2003, it was a National Book Award finalist and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. [3]
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues [119] Like a Rolling Stone [119] The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll [119] Love Minus Zero/No Limit [119] Masters of War [119] Mr. Tambourine Man [119] Simple Twist of Fate [119] Sweetheart Like You [119] Time Passes Slowly [119] The Times They Are a-Changin' [34] Tomorrow Is a Long Time [122] With God on Our Side ...
"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
Poetry for the Beat Generation is the debut album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac and was originally released in 1959. Initial performances of these poems were poorly received by an audience at the Village Vangard in 1957.
Scattered Poems is a collection of spontaneous poetry by Jack Kerouac. These poems were gathered from underground and ephemeral publications, as well as from notebooks kept by the author. Some poems include: "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy," and American Haiku.
Funeral Blues", or "Stop all the clocks", is a poem by W. H. Auden which first appeared in the 1936 play The Ascent of F6. Auden substantially rewrote the poem several years later as a cabaret song for the singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin Britten.
Mexico City Blues is a long poem by Jack Kerouac, composed of 242 "choruses" or stanzas, which was first published in 1959.Written between 1954 and 1957, the poem is the product of Kerouac's spontaneous prose technique, his Buddhist faith, emotional states, and disappointment with his own creativity—including his failure to publish a novel between 1950's The Town and the City and the more ...