For instance, when Kay writes, “The distance between us stretches like a sigh,” this simile helps capture the strength of the speaker’s emotions. The poem also conveys the speaker’s deep emotional connection with the loved one, as shown by their exclamation, “You are always with me,...
POEM OF THE DAY To My Mother Most near, most dear, most loved and most far, Under the window where I often found her Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter, Gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand, Irresistible as Rabelais, but most tender for ...
“Poppies” is a poem by the English poet Jane Weir, first published in 2005 as part of her collection The Way I Dressed. Written in response to the poet Carol Ann Duffy’s call for more war poems about the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Weir’s poem imagines the...
pronounced sheejo, is a three to six line poem that follows a syllable formula reminiscent of a haiku, but sijo is far older than the haiku.Each line serves its own purpose: the first introduces the topic, the second line extends the topic, and the third line has a twist or surprise...
"For the Union Dead" will be an elegy, a poem of mourning, exploring many kinds of loss—sudden and gradual alike. Robert Lowell frames this free verse poem in neat quatrains (or four-line stanzas), creating a regular and steady shape on the page. Within those quatrains, though, varied...
line break, the more the sense of urgency to complete the thought increases. Poets can use this effect to create sudden climaxes that heighten the meaning of their work, and sometimes, they can suddenly break out of the entirethought processto force the reader back to an entirely different ...
stanza, “The art of losing isn’t hard to master; / so many things seem filled with the intent / to be lost that their loss is no disaster”(1-3). This conveys the image that losing is not as devastating as it initially feels, by rationalizing that things will not last for ...
Alas! that all we loved of him should be, But for our grief, as if it had not been, And grief itself be mortal! Woe is me! Whence are we, and why are we? of what scene The actors or spectators? Great and mean Meet massed in death, who lends what life must borrow. As long ...
This imagery contains a note of increasing suffering, terrible loss that does not quickly pass; the danger perhaps of dark suicidal thoughts, and the suggested ‘tender grace of a day’, when the suffering and pain of the dying loved one, ended in the mercy of death. Tennyson displays a ...
For the sake of hisfamilyhe works so hard to provide, Trueloveand fidelity to his children and wife, His dreams are never voiced and his wants are few, And most of the time his worries go unspoken too, He woke up every single morning sure that he was dead, ...