“Heart and Mind” by Edith Sitwell is a free verse poem about passion and love. The writing includes references to Jewish, Christian, and Greek myths. It goes through what love is of the heart and follows it with love of… Continue Reading
“The Sea Eats the Land at Home” by Kofi Awoonor is a contemporary poem about a tropical cyclone ravishing a town and the devastation it caused. Awoonor discusses the sea, the religious aspects of the happening, and the people the… Continue Reading
“She was a Phantom of Delight” by William Wordsworth is a romantic lyrical ballad about his wife, Mary Hutchinson. It is divided into three stanzas with ten lines each using iambic tetrameter. The three stanzas are divided into how he… Continue Reading
“The Buck in the Snow” by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a contemporary poem about death made up of twelve lines divided into three stanzas. It has an unusual rhyming pattern of aaaaa-a-bacdaa to help give unity to the overall… 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