Ashe, Isaac
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My small sweating hands wrap the limp bird in tissue. I dig out a hole and bury the tiny thing beside the tree. Tears fall. The ground turns moist. I mutter a child’s prayer for things I don’t understand. The morning sun shifts. The ground has nearly dried. Should I stand beside...
Frank O'Hara, "Lines for the Fortune Cookies" Frank O'Hara's "Personal Poem" (1959) has long been a critical fulcrum in studies of his poetry, from Marjorie Perloff's foundational Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters (1977) to ... J Schneiderman - 《Contemporary Literature》 被引量: 0发...
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Angelou published this poem in 1978, but, again, it certainly seems to record the world closer to the '60s, when the Civil Rights movement was in full swing and young Black men were fighting (and not infrequently dying) for their rights. This tribute to a swaggery, life-loving kind of...
And the far sad glorious vision I see Of the torn red banners of Victory? When the terror and tumult of hate shall cease And life be refashioned on anvils of peace, And your love shall offer memorial thanks To the comrades who fought in your dauntless ranks, ...
is a wonderful miniature of English society, captured in a poem for the ages. It is also one of the best free verse poems from the early modernists known as the Imagists. Today the best-known Imagists are Pound and his protégé T. S. Eliot (who has two poems here, including a ...
Doing so, the poem suggests, is a meaningful act of memorial for those whom the rest of the world, and history itself, has forgotten. What's more, the poem implies that such acts of commemoration may be a way to help people confront their own mortality. Memorializing the dead thus also...
You always made the time for me, you really were my rock, You always would remind me how much like you I am and even though at times I fought it, you were right on the money again, You had such a way about you, that not even words could really express, but saying you were my...