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Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 1844 – 30 January 1881) was a British poet and herpetologist. [1] Of Irish descent, he was born in London. [2] He is most remembered for his poem "Ode", from his 1874 collection Music and Moonlight, which begins with the words "We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams", and which has been set to music by several composers ...
The Surrender Tree has been viewed by many and seen as a powerful book of poems.The Horn Book Magazine writes “A powerful narrative in free verse...haunting.” [2] “Hauntingly beautiful, revealing pieces of Cuba’s troubled past through the poetry of hidden moments” said School Library Journal. [3]
"The Hollow Men" (1925) is a poem by the modernist writer T. S. Eliot. Like much of his work, its themes are overlapping and fragmentary, concerned with post–World War I Europe under the Treaty of Versailles, hopelessness, religious conversion, redemption and, some critics argue, his failing marriage with Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot. [2]
Nearly 250 years ago, America's Founding Fathers made good on their dream of establishing one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.. On July 4, 1776, they signed The Declaration ...
[5] In 1933, in a notebook marked 'April', Thomas wrote the poem "And death shall have no dominion". Trick persuaded him to seek a publisher and in May of that year it was printed in New English Weekly. [5] On 10 September 1936, two years after the release of his first volume of poetry , Twenty-five Poems was published. It revealed Thomas's ...
My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Heidi Mordhorst, who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland — a short bike ride from Washington, D.C. Heidi began writing poems early in childhood and ...
The first poem, which is also entitled ‘The Dream’ is 64 pages long, with themes of death, romance, regret, grief, and the natural world. The protagonist, a nameless speaker described as the Hermit narrates his past romance through flashbacks to his long-lost friend, describing the woman he fell in love with in the past, and how her father ...
Like her previous poetry collections, Angelou's fourth volume, Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?, celebrates the ability to survive despite threatened freedom, lost love, and defeated dreams. Neubauer states that the poems in this volume are full of "the control and confidence that have become characteristic of Angelou's work in general". [38]