“Afternoon with Irish Cows” by Billy Collins is a contemporary humorous free style poem with a mixed rhythm, meter, and no rhyme similar to the style of “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House”. It is… Continue Reading
“The Mad Gardener’s Song” by Lewis Carroll is a nonsense poem about seeing something and then looking again and seeing something completely different. Like Jabberwocky, the poem is meant to provide humor simply for the purpose of being entertaining. However,… Continue Reading
“The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth is an Italian sonnet first published in “Poems, in Two Volumes” in 1807 along with another one of his famous poems “London, 1802“. The poem describes what the poet feels… Continue Reading
“The Kraken” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a sonnet full of imagery that describes the mythical large mythical octopus-like creature. This poem was first published in “Poems, Chiefly Lyrical” in 1830. Although this poem is referred to as a sonnet,… Continue Reading
“The Clod and the Pebble” by William Blake is a song first published in his 1794 collection “Songs of Innocence and of Experience” along with “The Tyger“. This poem is about love, innocence, and experience. It begins with the Clod… Continue Reading
“Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou is a lyrical poem originally published in her collection of poems “And Still I Rise” in 1978. This poem, along with “Still I Rise” and the rest of the entire collection, was meant to be… Continue Reading
“War Photographer” by Carol Ann Duffy was originally published in “Standing Female Nude” in 1985. The poem speaks of the challenges war photographers face in having to deal with the horrors of war while not being able to help fight.… Continue Reading
“High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee, Jr was written on August 18, 1941 only a few months before his death. He wrote this poem after flying to a hight of 33,000 feet in a Spitfire Mk I. He sent the… Continue Reading
“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley was originally published in the 1820 by Charles Ollier as part of “Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems”. The poem was written as a response to… Continue Reading
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson aka Lord Tennyson was originally published on December 9, 1854 in “The Examiner” but underwent several revisions throughout his lifetime. He wrote this poem as a remembrance of… Continue Reading