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,...
Love, Loss, and Separation The mysterious "Love in a Life" explores the fear of losing one’s beloved. The poem’s speaker searches for his lost lover through a vast, maze-like house, but she always seems to have just left each room before he enters. Even as the day grows darker and...
Being away from "Home" for "Years," after all, shouldn't be enough to make everyone who stayed at home forget you. The speaker, then, seems to be scared of two possibilities at once: The idea that their loved ones might have vanished and been replaced by strangers; Or the idea that...
Enjambment: It refers to the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line to the next without a pause. It is utilized throughout the poem, for example, in the line “A thousand miles it came,” the enjambment contributes to the fluidity of the poem, creating a seamless connection ...
m just going to say how I feel about it: The poem will eventually take its place alongside the greatest in the language. If it takes the literary community another fifty years to recognize it, then so be it. I’m old enough that gratitude for the little bit of space life gives me ...
For a piece that was not meant to be a poem, I think it very much is, and a beautiful one on the theme of death it is too. I have lost many people over the years, including both my parents, so I know only too well the sadness of loss, and it is true when they say time is...
There is very little independent evidence for the dating of the poems; even if Ward’s handwriting analysis is correct, one can conclude only that the poems ascribed to the year 1862 had been written by then, not that they were written in or even close to this year. Despite Johnson’s ...
That’s okay. Read the poems already posted for more inspiration. Ponder your own throughout the day. Return later. And, if the prompt does not work for you, that is fine. All writing is welcome. Just write something. Also, please be sure to respond to at least three writers. Oh, ...
This poem by Ezra Pound 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 po...
Pare a bruised pear, you need a pair, to make up the loss Of the brown stuff you toss. How much did a maid need to knead dough for bread to be made Before bread tin in oven be laid? If one has won, is an idol ever idle ...