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Ask Meby William Stafford Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried to help or to hurt: ask me what difference their strongest love or hate has ...
An Introduction to Some Poems William Stafford’s ‘An Introduction to Some Poems’ is about the role of budding poets. The speaker says that every life is worth writing about, and a writer’s work is to share “authentic” human experiences. ...
Stafford had a quiet daily ritual of writing and his writing focuses on the ordinary. The gentle quotidian style of his poetry has been compared to Robert Frost. His poems are typically short, focusing on the earthy, accessible details appropriate to a specific locality. 展开 年份: 2010 ...
Stafford was known for his quiet daily ritual of writing and his focus on the ordinary. The gentle quotidian style of his poetry has been compared to Robert Frost. His poems are typically short, focusing on the earthy, accessible details appropriate to a specific locality. In a 1971 interview...
and was hospitalized more than once formaniaanddepression.Life Studieswas not his first collection, but it included his best poems, many of them unabashedly autobiographical. Chief among these are “Waking in the Blue,” which tells of his experience in a mental hospital, and “Skunk Hour,” ...
William Stafford Poems The light along the hills in the morning comes down slowly, naming the trees white, then coasting the ground for stones to nominate. Notice what this poem is not doing. A house, a house, a barn, the old quarry, where the river shrugs--...
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William Cowper, one of the most celebrated poets of the 18th century, wrote some of the most profound and moving poems of his time. However, his life was plagued by bouts of depression and mental illness, which he struggled with for most of his adult life. One of the most remarkable wor...