‘The Wild Iris’ by Louise Glück is a complex and deeply metaphorical poem that describes death from the perspective of a flower. Throughout the short lines of ‘The Wild Iris,’ the speaker describes what it means to live, die, and be reborn again. They’ve gone through the cycle an...
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Prayer of the Iris.(POETRY)(Poem)Tyx, Carol
Winter descended on the Pacific Northwest for the month of January, and though it will rain for a few more months, signs of spring are everywhere: the wild iris and daylilies are thrusting up shoots, and all at once, the frogs are singing (and crossing the roads)! Colleen’sTanka Tuesday...
As a late teen, Isaac complained often to his father about the tiresome, chanted hymns of the church. How was a person supposed to sing them withjoyas the Bible-psalms often urged, when the music droned in a minor key? From a 1600’s hymnal ...
In the late 1980s, Claire Van Vliet and Kathryn Lipke (née Vigesaa) were seeking a collaborative project. After Van Vliet spotted Denise Levertov’s poem “Batterers” in theAmerican Poetry Review(1990:6), they agreed that the poem, which enfolds our abuse of the earth within a metaphor...
Line-by-Line Explanation & Analysis of “I Sing the Body Electric” Lines 1-4 "I Sing the Body Electric" begins with a crackle of energy. As the speaker proclaims, "I sing the body electric," there's a sense of both excitement and mystery: it seems as if this poem will be a "s...
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Being "gazetted" (or "in the gazette") also meant having official notice of one's bankruptcy published,[10]as in the classic ten-line poem comparing the stolid tenant farmer of 1722 to the lavishly spending faux-genteel farmers of 1822:[11] ...
I thought about this as I sat there ruining my date. I thought about the strange, wild, ghost filled land that the early European colonists (invaders?) beheld. The desolation that lay before them must have been difficult to comprehend, if they noticed it at all. And the culture and soci...