So there in front of the gas engine which I hadn’t expected to see, because I thought it had gone to Bristol; there I met myself like the man in the poem who wasn’t there – wasn’t there as a student in his early twenties with no idea what the future would hold. While Madam...
Explore "On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley. Read about the poet, see her poem's summary and analysis, and study its...
Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or as a rolling-pin, He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be ‘Comrade Napoleon!’ Napoleon approved of this poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the...
Carl Sandburg who had a penchant for incorporating familiar similes into his work, quoted this in his poem, New Hampshire Again. (A pale flat woman with a) face like a fillet of flounder —Helen Hudson Face like a knotty whorl in the bark of a hoary olive tree —Amos Oz Face… like ...
Poem harvest October 2024 2024.10.10 – I may look empty 2024.10.11 – I was beast man at my wedding 2024.10.11 – I ride my Camus 2024.10.12 – Sometimes I wear two shoes 2024.10.13 – Is sacrosanct 2024.10.14 – Sky green
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Anything and anyone can be beautiful depending on who is looking at it. Beauty can be found ina bloomingflower, a gentle bird call, afragrantwine, a kindact, ablossoming romance, a poem, or apainting. But how is it that we determine these things...
it also seemed obvious that the publication of the poem in a separate volume restored its implicit function as a flip book. The “playful” aspect present in all Emmett Williams’ works seems to have taken refuge here in the childlike form of these animated books, designed to give the impres...
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”). Here, the poem and its shape come first, then the work of art — theImageof the poem. By calling his exhibition anexposition littéraire, Broodthaers underscored this. By calling out the shapes on the page, he elevated the original’s semblances of waves, ...
RökFlöte’s opener, "Voluspo," is titled after the most famous poem in the Poetic Edda, which dates back centuries. Lead single "Ginnungagap" refers to the bottomless abyss that encompassed all things prior to the creation of the cosmos. "Ithavoll" is the meeting pla...
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”— Anne Morrow Lindbergh “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”— Allen Ginsberg “If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”— David Carradine “To find yourself, think for yourself.”— Socrates ...