Forum: Poetry

I was led to R.S. Thomas after reading much of Dylan Thomas's poetry -- I wanted to know more about Wales, and I wanted to know more about it through poetry. R.S. Thomas offers a far more bleaker portrayal of Wales, and is far more restrained in his language than Thomas; one can say that R.S....

In an other thread, margaine raised a question of ongoing debate: for whom does one write poetry? I always love to know something about the poet's life, gives me what I think is a window into their poetry. I, however, also subscribe to the theory that good poetry communicates to the reader on its...

I am supposed to do an annotation assignment in this poem writing everything about this poem. But I do not seem to fully understand the poem. I tried reading it several times but still I can't get what the poem means line by line. I searched for summaries and analysis of this poem all over the...

Very curious how he is perceived in England. I have seen Black Daisies for the Bride, and I've been reading some of his poetry the last few days. I thought Black Daisies a valiant effort that didn't quite work, but must admit that I really like many of his poems, with a few glaringly trite lines...

I'm reading The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, and before I possibly make an error, by totally dismissing Hughes poetry for what happened in his amrriage to Sylvia (at this point I only gathered elsewhere he had an affair on her, and I just don't want what happened distort how I'd view his...

As suggested by Winifred, it might be interesting to have a thread for sharing Australian poets and poetry. I'm not sure exactly who might be encountered elsewhere, so it will be interesting what others have to share. Mostly I will probably just list my favourites, old and new. Mostly new. ...

Hello, Everybody! Will you be so kind to take part in my University investigation, connected with the translation studies. I. Read an extract from the A.S.Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” and answer the questions: Tatyana's Letter to Onegin: I write to you -- what can be more than this? What...

Now I am not a great lover of poetry in general, but I absolutely love this poem! I think it is wonderful!! :D Let me not to the marriage of true mindsWilliam Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds,...

There isn't a topic here on Anne Sexton, so I am starting one. I am going to begin reading a biography about her, written by Diane Wood Middlebrook, but I have not read anything by Anne Sexton. Have any of you? I became interested in her because of her suicide and what I have read about her...

Hi there. Would you please tell me how to deconstruct Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"? Thnx.

I'm browsing through his collection, Of This World. Night in Day The night never wants to end, to give itself over to light. So it traps itself in things: obsidian, crows. Even on summer solstice, the day of light's great triumph, where fields of sunflowers guzzle in the sun - we break...

MY FELISBERTO My felisberto is handsomer than your mergotroid, although, admittedly, your mergotroid may be the wiser of the two. Whereas your mergotroid never winces or quails, my felisberto is a titan of inconsistencies. For a night of wit and danger and temptation my felisberto would...

Why I Have A Crush On You, UPS Man by Alice N.Persons you bring me all the things I order are never in a bad mood always have a jaunty wave as you drive away look good in your brown shorts we have an ideal uncomplicated relationship

The following quote is thought provoking to me, because I have wondered whether or not free verse is poetry for some time now, and I think that by Ayn Rand's defintion from her The Romantic Manifesto or from her The Art of Fiction, that it isn't. Well, I came across this, recently, which is...