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Farmer/Poet Frost
The speaker in Robert Frost's sonnet, "Putting in the Seed," dramatizes his deep love for the simple act of planting seeds in the earth's rich soil.
farmer/poet • analysis of robert frost's ‘putting in the seed’ • elizabethan sonnet • rime scheme • ababcdcdefefgg

Wordsworth's The Idiot Boy
Wordsworth's ballad, "The Idiot Boy," reflects the poet's dedication to creating poetry that addresses simple rural people in a natural environment.
william wordsworth • idiot boy • innovative ballad • rime scheme • betty foy

Lyric Poetry
Lyric poetry is the most common form of poetry; it does not tell a story as the epic and narrative forms do; the lyric poem has grown into many forms since ancient times.
lyric poetry • kinds of poetry • greek chorus • the lyre • song

Dickinson's Slant of Light
Dickinson was a keen observer of her environment, dramatizing her reactions in poems. Her sense of melancholy informs her observations of light on winter afternoons.
emily dickinson • there's a certain slant of light • intuition • poem 258 in johnson • rime scheme abcb

Dickinson’s ‘I heard a Fly buzz'
Emily Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died" dramatizes the speaker's act of dying, as well as Dickinson's mystical vision, which corresponds to yogic philosophy.
dickinson’s i heard a fly buzz — when i died • mystical adeptness • slant rime • rime scheme • soul leaving the body

Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Wilfred Owen's famous war poem describes the agony of war by dramatizing a single scene filled with the misery caused by mustard gas.
owen’s dulce et decorum est • war is hell • pro patria mori • world war 1 • old lie

Robert Frost’s ‘Bereft’
Robert Frost's amazing "Bereft" contains one the most fascinating metaphors of all time: "Leaves got up in a coil and hissed / Blindly struck at my knee and missed."
robert frost’s ‘bereft’ • hissing leaves • snake metaphor • odd rime scheme • summer was past and day was past

Roethke’s 'My Papa’s Waltz'
Theodore Roethe's "My Papa's Waltz" is a fairly literal poem, within the context of its controlling metaphor of the "waltz."
theordore roethke • my papas waltz • metaphor • rime scheme • rhythm

Sara Teasdale's To E.
The speaker in Sara Teasdale's Petrarchan sonnet, "To E.," dramatizes her memories of beauty that she treasures, with a special memory of a treasured soul.
sara teasdale's to e • a petrarchan sonnet • octave • sestet • memories

Shakespeare Sonnet 18
Shakespeare sonnet 18 begins the thematic group in which the speaker/poet muses on his writing talent, often addressing his Muse, his ability, and even his poems.
william shakespeare • sonnet 18 • sonnet xviii • quatrains • couplet

William Blake’s ‘The Schoolboy’
While mentioning summer, William Blake's "The Schoolboy" is not really a poem that focuses on summer, but a lament of a youngster who simply hates to attend school.
william blake’s the schoolboy • learning in a cage • rime scheme ababb • samuel taylor coleridge • suspension of disbelief

Wordsworth's Romantic Cry
Wordsworth's Italian sonnet is the Romantic cry of a speaker who wants it both ways: he wants to be a pagan, yet still retain his enlightenment values.
wordsworth’s romantic cry • the world is too much with us • italian sonnet • petrarchan sonnet • rime scheme

Divine Oneness
The great guru's poem portrays the concept that each individual is a spark of the Divine, using the metaphor of tiny pieces of wood likened to sparks of Divine love.
divine oneness • paramahansa yogananda’s the splinters of thy love • union of divine and individual • guru defines god • stone gulch poetry

Yogananda's City Drum
The speaker in Yogananda's "City Drum" dramatizes the glory of simply waking up in the morning to the sounds of a city as it begins an ordinary yet miraculous day.
yogananda’s city drum • the miracle of a new day • its morn • i love to be roused • walt whitman

Betjeman's 'Christmas'
John Betjeman's poem titled "Christmas" portrays the sour perspective of a doubter and misrepresents Jesus' birthplace.
john betjeman • christmas • doubter tackles tradition and history • jesus christ • london

Eliot’s ‘Preludes’
T. S. Eliot has written some of the literary world's most horrid descriptions of city life. The horror is, however, in the mind of the beholder as it is with beauty.
t. s. eliot • preludes • tradition and the individual talent • the winter evening settles down • the morning comes to consciousness

Keats’ 'Ode to Autumn'
Autumn is considered a very poetic season; perhaps more poems have been written about autumn than any of the other seasons. Beauty and melancholy are enticing.
john keats • ode to autumn • a celebration of beauty • rime • stanza

Louise Glück’s ‘The Pond’
The former poet laureate dramatizes the incest taboo in her poem "The Pond," which portrays a birdwing covering a pond and a disembodied spirit that stings her memory.
louise glück’s ‘the pond’ • nightmares and blood • accidental rimes • slant rimes • metaphor

Dickinson's The Only News I Know
Poem number 827 in Johnson's The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson offers a glimpse of the poet's satisfying daily existence.
emily dickinson • the only news i know • mystic • spiritual • immortality

E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings did not legally change his name to e. e. cummings as is often claimed in legend; he became rather conventional in his values despite his innovative style.
e. e. cummings • innovative spiritual poet • sonnet • harvard university • ralph waldo emerson

Housman’s Sage Advice
In A. E. Housman's "When I was one-and-twenty," the speaker at age twenty-two reports the truth of sage advice he received at age twenty-one about falling in love.
a. e. housman • when i was one-and-twenty • sage advice • give crowns and pounds and guineas • but not your heart away

Keats in Winter
John Keats' poem, "In a drear-nighted December" dramatizes the constancy of things in nature-a tree and a brook-while showing how different the human heart behaves.
john keats • in a drear-nighted december • constancy of things in nature • tree • brook

Milton’s Blindness
Musing on his blindness, 17th century poet John Milton created a new sonnet form. In addition to the Petrarchan and Elizabethan, a new Miltonic sonnet came into being.
milton’s blindness • when i consider how my light is spent • petrarchan • italian • elizabethan

Oscar Wilde's To My Wife
Oscar Wilde is noted more for his plays than for his poems. He was a proponent of "art for art's sake," a kind of precursor to the fragmentation of modernism.
oscar wilde • to my wife • fragmentation • modernism • elizabethan sonnet

Abe Lincoln as Poet
The Great Emancipator, renowned for his poetic writings in the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address, did not restrict his scribbling to political tracts.
abe lincoln as poet • abraham lincoln • great emancipator • gettysburg address • my childhood’s home i see again

Alexander Pope's Ode on Solitude
The young speaker romanticizes the existence of the farmer, as he creates a utopian scenario that is beautiful but unrealistic.
alexander pope • ode on solitude • romantic movement • farmer • idealism

America’s First Book
The first book to be published in the Thirteen Colonies was <i>The Bay Psalm Book</i>, and the first printing press to arrive on the North American continent was specifically purchased and imported for the purpose of printing this book.
bay psalm book • psalms of david • richard mather • plymouth • thirteen colonies

Browning’s ‘How do I love thee?’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's speaker in "How do I love thee?" counts the ways that she loves her beloved: there are four ways in the octave and four ways in the sestet.
browning’s how do i love thee • petrarchan sonnet • sonnets from the portuguese • octave • sestet

December Poet – Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her poem "'Twas just this time, last year, I died" looks beyond the death of the speaker.
emily dickinson • ’twas just this time last year i died • amherst • slant rime • death

Dickinson’s Summer
In this poem, Dickinson personifies summer as a woman who struggles to overcome the coldness of late spring.
dickinson’s summer i know a place where summer str • a bird came down the walk”frightened beads • spiritual intoxication • riddles • looking back from eternity

Dickinson’s Winter Welcome
The speaker in Emily Dickinson's short winter poem slyly humbles the cold season but not before distinguishing its multitude of genuine positive attributes.
dickinson’s winter welcome • winter is good — his hoar delights • robert frost’s tricky speakers • slant rime • summer

Harpur's The Battle of Life
Charles Harpur is considered Australia's first significant poet. Largely neglected, he wrote the first sonnet sequence ever published in Australia in the 19th century.
charles harpur • australia • battle of life • battlefield metaphor • victory

Herrick's To the Virgins
Carpe Diem poems push an agenda: the poet feels his pet project is so important that he urges his readers to make haste because time is flying.
robert herrick • to the virgins to make much of time • carpe diem • gather ye rosebuds • the glorious lamp of heaven

January Poet-Paramahansa Yogananda
The great guru/poet Paramahansa Yogananda was born January 5, 1893, in Gorakhpur, India. This article focuses on his poem, "On Coming to the New-Old Land-America."
january poet-paramahansa yogananda • city of sparta • on coming to the new old land america • sleeping memories • pilgrim poem

Laurence Binyon's For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon's speaker celebrates the transcendence of the soldiers who have fought so bravely and died for freedom.
laurence binyon • for the fallen • british soldiers • world war i • england

Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’
Arnold's "Dover Beach" is considered a lament, albeit by an agnostic himself, of the world's loss of religious faith during a time of progress in science and industry.
matthew arnold’s dover beach • the virtue of truth • progress in science and industry • religious faith • misery

November Poet – Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay was born November 10, 1879, in Springfield, Illinois.
november poet • vachel lindsay • abraham lincoln walks at midnight • in springfield illinois • mourning figure walks

The Sonnet as a Cage
In Millay's Petrarchan sonnet, the speaker resolves to tame Chaos by placing him in the cage of a sonnet, where she will be able to make an orderly being of him.
the sonnet as a cage • millay’s i will put chaos into fourteen lines • octave • sestet • greek mythology

The Versanelle
Often employing the usual poetic devices, the versanelle is a crafty little form whose elements include brevity, narration, critique of human nature, and a punch line.
versanelle • epigram • metaphor • narration • robert frost

Wilbur’s ‘A Late Aubade’
A carpe diem theme runs through Richard Wilbur's poem, which relies heavily on imagery that appeals to all five senses.
richard wilbur • a late aubade • carpe diem • imagery • visual

Willilam Blake’s ‘A Poison Tree’
William Blake's "A Poison Tree" makes a didactic but unworkable statement about the efficacy of talking out one's difficulties with enemies.
blake’s ‘a poison tree’ • a killing metaphor • songs of experience • difficulties with enemies • i was angry with my friend

Wyatt's They Flee From Me
The speaker in Wyatt's most anthologized poem dramatizes the nature of regret after having fallen from favor.
sir thomas wyatt • they flee from me • regret • septain • thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise

Yeats' When You Are Old
W. B. Yeats' "When You Are Old" is one of the poet's lyrics that qualifies as a love song without the usual Yeatsian political or modernist tinge.
w. b. yeats • when you are old • the second coming • easter 1916 • lapis lazuli

‘A Bird came down the Walk'
This poem is one of Dickinson's many fun poems loaded with clever plays on words, making a keen observation that serves to remind the reader of images stored in memory.
emily dickinson’s “a bird came down the walk” • frightened beads • thomas h. johnson • complete poem • slant rime

Frost’s ‘The Oven Bird’
Frost's speaker in "The Oven Bird" explores the same mystery that presents itself in the little eight-line poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
frost’s the oven bird • decay in the lush midst • mending wall • snow and woods • tricky poem

Housman’s ‘Is my team ploughing’
In Housman's "Is my team ploughing," a dead man questions his living friend about how things are now that the former is in the grave and can no long participate.
housman’s is my team ploughing • guilty conscience • farming • football • friend

Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’
Hailed as the most important nonsense poem in the English language, the poem, "Jabberwocky," serves to exemplify how language works and how it revitalizes itself.
lewis carroll’s jabberwocky • sense and nonsense • through the looking-glass • alice’s adventures in wonderland • humpty dumpty

Robert Frost's The Fear
Robert Frost's "The Fear" is a dramatic poem featuring a narrator and four characters-a husband, the only named character, a wife, a man and his son who does not speak.
robert frost • the fear • vanity • dramatic poem • husband

Thoreau's Prayer
Henry David Thoreau assessed his poetic talent by referring to himself as "sometimes a Poetaster"; his attempt at an Italian sonnet proves the accuracy of his assessment.
henry david thoreau • prayer • poetaster • italian sonnet • philosopher

Frost's 'War Thoughts at Home'
Robert Frost's recently discovered "poem" is a collection of seven stanzas, which appears to be more a list of notes rather than a poem, as the title clearly reveals.
frost’s ‘war thoughts at home’ • poetic notes • north of boston • france • 1918