Category: others’ poetry
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Frederic Gable – According to Margaret Drabble in a Guardian article, the last stanza of Lord Byron‘s “Love and Death” contains ‘the greatest split infinitive in literature’. Byron wrote the poem in 1824, shortly before he died. The poem was…
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Christmas decoration from Joan in 2009. What is your favourite ‘snowflakes’ moment in literature? Tell me. Mine is: London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the…
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Rene Magritte’s “The False Mirror” William Henry Davies in his poem “Leisure” answers: Leisureby W.H. Davies WHAT is this life if, full of careWe have no time to stand and stare.No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long…
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“Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” (1932) -Picasso ––– The HugBy Thom Gunn It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who’d showed us in the end To a bed I reached…
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Louis MacNeice in Autumn Journal (1939) answers: If it is something feasible, obtainable,…..Let us dream it now,And pray for a possible land…..Not of sleepwalkers, not of angry puppets,But where both hand and brain can understand…..The movements of our fellows;Where life is…
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– – ––The Woman…………………………..by Robert Creeley I have neverclearly given to youthe associationsyou have for me, you with suchdivided presence my dreamdoes not showyou. I do not dream. I have compoundedthese sensations, theaccumulation of the thingsleft me by you. Always…
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“Dear Toddlekins,” said little Trot,“May I talk to you a while?”“Why, yeth, of courthe,” said Toddlekins,With a bashful little smile. “Now, Toddlekins,” said little Trot,“If we should meet a bear”——“Good graciouth me!” said Toddlekins,“You give me thuch a thcare!” “If…
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– Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “From My Window” is now published in Anomalous Press. There is also a recording of it. The second and third lines of the poem particularly caught my attention: ‘no squirrels fleeing from freezing / corners with their…
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The partner bought me Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife in 2009. The collection features works ostensibly narrated by the wives of well-known historical and fictional men, famous men reimagined as women, or women who were well-known in their own right. Some…
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We can only see the Sistine Chapel for the first time once, and we can never be surprised twice by the outcome of a poem or a novel, the unexpected modulations of a piece of Haydn or the wild ramifications…
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And the word ‘love’ makes no sense, this history is almostRipe for the mind’s museum — broken jarsThat once held wine or perfume.Yet looking at their elegance on the standsI feel a certain pride that only lately(And yet so long ago) I…
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The End Of The Worldby Archibald MacLeish Quite unexpectedly, as VasserotThe armless ambidextrian was lightingA match between his great and second toe,And Ralph the lion was engaged in bitingThe neck of Madame Sossman while the drumPointed, and Teeny was about…
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The Managing Housewife J. H. Gray’s poem “The Girls that are Wanted” (c. 1880) might give you some ideas. The girls that are wanted are good girls Good from the heart to the lips Pure as the lily is white…
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MAY IN POETRY –– Do you know any May poems? Do you know any May songs? Perhaps you have written one? Contribute to the “May in Poetry” archive. – –
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Derek Walcott is one of my favourite contemporary poets and “No Opera” is a relatively new poem by him, published in the February 2010 issue of The Believer and collected in White Egrets: No Opera No opera, no gilded columns, no wine-dark seats, no Penelope…
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“The Pleasant truth” (1966) by rene MAGRITTE Emily Dickinson answers: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightening to the Children eased With explanation kind The…
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The poem alluded to in this post is now published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. There are two squirrels in a recent poem I wrote roaming in the garden outside the kitchen. I put them in the work not because…
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I know parallel semantic and syntactic structure is a key feature in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. But reading the poem below, I was just thinking that ‘need not’1 might make more sense than ‘cannot’ in the first stanza. What do you think? The…
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– 0 The generous giver’s identity has been revealed. Thank you!
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In 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know (2010), John Sutherland uses Andrew Marvell’s poem “To his Coy Mistress” to illustrate the idea of ‘double bind’ (pp. 132-135). Had we but world enough timethis coyness, lady, were no crime. […] But…
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There are some wonderful poems in the Winter 2010 issue of Asia Literary Review (this is their “China’ issue) and it is interesting to see that many of them feature flora imagery.1 Landscape Above Zero | Bei Dao | “It was…
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Last December, we went to see Alan Bennett’s new play, The Habit of Art, which is about an imaginary meeting between W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten (this is in a way similar to Adam Fould’s novel The Quickening Maze, which…
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Namesby Wendy Cope She was Eliza for a few weeksWhen she was a baby —Eliza Lily. Soon it changed to Lil. Later she was Miss Steward in the baker’s shopAnd then ‘my love’, ‘my darling’, Mother. Widowed at thirty, she…
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WHAT DID YOU WRITE ME? –by Reid Mitchell Fearing poisonI hired an official tasterto read my email. He hung himself today.
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