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A reading of "Fire and Ice". " Fire and Ice " is a short poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It was first published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine [1] and was later published in Frost's 1923 Pulitzer Prize -winning book New Hampshire ...
Prologue: The poem begins in the Malvern Hills between Worcestershire and Herefordshire.A man named Will (which can be understood either simply as a personal name or as an allegory for a person's will, in the sense of 'desire, intention') falls asleep and has a vision of a tower set upon a hill and a fortress in a deep valley; between these symbols of heaven and hell is a 'fair field full of ...
Kālidāsa (Sanskrit: कालिदास, "Servant of Kali "; 4th–5th century CE) was a Classical Sanskrit author who is often considered ancient India 's greatest poet and playwright. [1][2] His plays and poetry are primarily based on Hindu Puranas and philosophy. His surviving works consist of three plays, two epic poems and two shorter ...
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. [ 1 ] She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.
1816 first edition title page. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, near Windsor Great Park and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend Thomas Love Peacock.
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (Russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, IPA: [mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈta (j)ɪvə]; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1892 – 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is some of the most well-known in twentieth-century Russian literature. [1] She lived through and wrote about the Russian ...
Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes. " Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes ", also known simply as " Fleas ", is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written, composed by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century. [1] The poem reads in full: Had 'em.