I wrote this poem for a family member who died many years ago. I have been writing poetry since I was sixteen. I am now in my seventies. My poetry affords me an appropriate medium through which I can express my innermost thoughts and emotions. The theme of my poems encompass both low ...
Families often get together for outings or to fly kites at this time.根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。1. What does the underlined word "passers-by" in Paragraph 1 mean? A. People who are going past. B. People who you have never met before C. People who lived in the ancient time. D. ...
The speaker’s father “died before [she] had time—” to see him for who he really was, and because of this the speaker has been trapped inside a childlike perception of her father as godlike. Over the years, her memory of him seems only to have grown in its oppressive power, and...
They traveled to Denver, Colorado and died there; they returned and hopelessly waited there; they kept watch over the city, meditated and spent time alone there, and eventually left that timeless place for the ordinary world. Now the city misses the legends who used to visit her. They knelt...
A Pretty How Town In any love story, you would expect that the lovers have names but Cummings gives the names “anyone” and “no-one”, two faceless people who live life freely in a faceless town. This strategy seems to be put in place to make the two characters invisible to the rea...
In the poem “One Art”, Elizabeth Bishop elucidates that no matter how many times people experience loss, they can never truly prepare themselves for it: the tension between discipline in life and the unpredictability of chance results in a futile struggle for control, one which the bereft aba...
A Tribute to Fred Voss The poet Fred Voss, who has died at the age of 72, was one of the great American writers of manual labour. He went beyond the poet as witness in a journalistic sense, for he lived what he wrote and he wrote more than three thousand poems. ...
It is surely a good omen for the advancement of science that the potentialities of its application to ends which may seem remote from the laboratory of the research worker, should be emphasised on such an occasion by one who not only has availed himself freely of its aid in many ways in...
ll greet the lovely Moon Goddess who will spend MORE time with me. I’ll make an apple dessert and plan on a good healthy meal. Altar work will recognize that it’s the Witch’s Thanksgiving. I’ll thank Goddess for the blessings in my life, and despite my complaining about life ...
This will be a poem about both the eerieness of death and the difficulty of keeping any news private for long in a small town. The speaker doesn't have to see anything as telling as, say, a weeping mourner or a coffin delivery to know that a neighbor across the street has died "as...