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The sleep of this story is said by Coleridge to be a sleep of opium, and Kubla Khan may be read as an early poetic description of this drug experience. The fact that the poem is generally regarded as one of Coleridge's best is one reason for the continuing interest and debate about the opium's role in his creative output and in Romanticism in ...
Michael Dransfield ca. 1972, pictured on the cover of Drug Poems. Michael Dransfield (12 September 1948 – 20 April 1973) was an Australian poet active in the 1960s and early 1970s who wrote close to 1,000 poems. [1] He has been described as "one of the most widely read poets of his generation." [2]
Pages in category "Poems about drugs" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Calling a Wolf a Wolf; D.
Several poems look at the narrator’s parents — the poetry isn’t necessarily autobiographical — particularly one called “Drunken Monologue From an Alcoholic Father’s Oldest Daughter.”
For decades, Ginsberg was active in political protests across a range of issues from the Vietnam War to the war on drugs. [12] His poem "September on Jessore Road" drew attention to refugees fleeing the 1971 Bangladeshi genocide, exemplifying what literary critic Helen Vendler described as Ginsberg's persistent opposition to "imperial politics ...
Les Paradis Artificiels (English: Artificial Paradises) is a book by French poet Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1860, about the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish.
As the broader war on drugs is being reconsidered — even in conservative states like Kentucky — officials have concluded that an incarceration-first strategy is not only costly but also bad policy. Drug courts that shuttle defendants to rehabilitation facilities instead of locking them up are now ubiquitous.
The Romantic era in Britain was, in addition to a time of growth for literature and poetry, a time of increased opium use. Interspersed among importation of opium from the Middle and Far East countries, Britain itself produced a meager amount of opium and utilized it, at least initially, as medicine and also as an ingredient in patent medicines to treat a variety of ailments and diseases.