Madhushala (The Tavern ( Read more... )

Questions to ask of a poem designed to embed academic terms and increase the understanding of said terms in the process of answering ( Read more... )

THE world is too much with us; late and soon ( Read more... )

Tell it to Jews hanging from meathooks ( Read more... )

...to hear songs you haven't heard for some quarter of a century ( Read more... )

We weren't in love, oh no, far from it ( Read more... )

Denise Levertov ( Read more... )

Charming oysters I cry
My masters, come buy,
So plump and so fresh,
So sweet is their Flesh,
No Colchester oyster ( Read more... )

What if all the people ( Read more... )

In its origin a poem is something completely unequivocal. It is a discharge, a call, a cry, a sigh, a gesture, a reaction by which the living soul seeks to defend itself from or to become aware of an emotion, an experience. In this first spontaneous most important function no poem can be judged. It speaks first of all simply to the poet himself, ( Read more... )