Later in the evening, I would walk to a pond, where I looked up at the moon in the sky, bright and clear, and down at the moon reflected, just as bright and clear, on the surface of the pond. Too young to know what a poem was, I was nonetheless so impressed by what I had s...
faded but still legible. The words read, “To those who seek, I leave a piece.” Lily was puzzled but excited. Was this part of a larger message or perhaps a poem Eleanor had written?
Down by the Salley Gardenswas published inThe Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poemsin 1889. When discussing the origins of this poem, Yeats described how he was inspired to write it while trying to remember lines from a son...
“The Garden of Love” Introduction "The Garden of Love" is a poem by English Romantic visionary William Blake. Blake was devoutly religious, but he had some major disagreements with the organized religion of his day. The poem expresses this, arguing that religion should be about love, freedom...
My first poem was about the Phoenix, the harbinger of a reign, a new age of wisdom. When I was in my ninth year, I had already written enough poems to fill a satchel. At 14, I first began to read my poems in public. The literary masters compared me to the great writers of the...
1) Death Be Not Proud, one of Donne’s Holy Sonnets, is an almost Startling put-down of poor death. Staunchly Christian in its pare expectation of the resurrection, Donne’s poem personifies death as an adversary swollen with false pride & unworthy of being called "mighty & dreadful." Don...
Many times in the poem, the speaker’s flights of fancy and imagination will suddenly be counterpointed by a discordant line or phrase that casts the preceding words in a markedly different light. The closing line of ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester,’ is an excellent example of bathos. ...
childhood. The book is a classic children's novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The words "garden" and "secret" were instant attractions for me when I first heard of the book. I loved the idea of a beautiful and mysterious garden that no one knew about except for the leading ...
When I was still only in my seventh year, my mind was already full of heroic deeds. My first poem was about the Phoenix, the harbinger of a reign, a new age of wisdom. When I was in my ninth year, I had already written enough poems to fill a satchel. ...
a variety of academic or literary research attempting to find the sources behind works of the imagination, named after a noted study of this kind, John Livingston Lowes’ Road to Xanadu (1927), an inquiry into Coleridge’s poem, “Xanadu.” — Xanaduist, n., adj. ...