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After her divorce in 1997, Olds started writing a series of poems relating the different phases of grief and denial. There are reminders of love and romance, and the constant battle between her mind and heart results in her questioning herself. [2] The poems trace the last year of the marriage, and then the year after. [3]
In the poem “Painted Tongue,” Byas writes: “We twist and turn in the mirror,/ my mother and I becoming each other,/ her bruises and scars passed down,/ family heirlooms that will take/ me ...
Poem 68 is a complex elegy written by Catullus, who lived in the 1st century BCE during the time of the Roman Republic.This poem addresses common themes of Catullus' poetry such as friendship, poetic activity, love and betrayal, and grief for his brother.
Modern Love by George Meredith is a sequence of fifty 16-line sonnets about the failure of a marriage, an episodic verse narrative that has been described as "a novella in verse". [1] Earlier working titles for the sequence were "The Love-Match" and then "The Tragedy of Modern Love". [ 2 ]
We wanted to prioritize keeping things stable for our three children. I found that after a decade as the primary caregiver, having my own space was transformative. When my ex-husband of 13 years ...
Kamala Das was a confessional poet whose poems have often been considered at par with those of Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. Kamala Das' first book of poetry, Summer in Calcutta was a breath of fresh air in Indian English poetry. She wrote chiefly of love, betrayal, and the consequent anguish.
Dimitrie Anghel, Iosif's closest friend and a collaborator on poems, visited the family home almost daily and fell in love with Natalia. [2] Iosif broke with Anghel in spring 1910, and became alienated from his wife that summer. [3] Anghel eventually convinced her to move in with him, [2] and she sued for divorce in November. She won the case ...
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