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Written around 1861, this more brazen example of Dickinson's verse has incited debate over its subject since its publication in the early 1890s.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's five-year-old son, Waldo, died of scarlet fever, and the poet composed this poem as a loving tribute to the boy.

The speaker in Yogananda's "My Kinsmen" declares his unity with all of creation, celebrating the progression of stages through which he has evolved.

The first two stanzas of John Donne's poem "The Canonization" turns Petrarchan conceits inside out, to glorify Donne's love.

John Donne's poem "The Canonization" deploys some striking rhetorical turns, a bilingual pun, and some memorable images to praise immortality achieved through art.

Rudyard Kipling's poem dramatizes the notion that females in all species, often thought to be demure and soft, are actually more iron-willed than their counterpart.

John Betjeman's interest in architecture often informs his poetry as he fumbles to add substance to his observations of line and curve.

In Amy Lowell's "Fireworks," the speaker dramatizes the rage she feels toward her enemy by tossing out images one might see at a fireworks display.

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.

Wallace Stevens' use of the imagination in poetry reveals the unchartered territory that readers have come to expect from the modernist mindset.

The mind is without limits despite being contained in a skull where it does not physically move or speak or act, but Richard Wilbur's "Mind" can fly.

Yusef Komunyakaa examines and dramatizes the character flaw called "pride" by personifying the deadly sin, making it a character of uncommon odiousness.

In Paramahansa Yogananda's "Listen to my Soul Song" from Songs of the Soul, the great yogi offers a perfect blend of three poetry forms: song, chant, and prayer.

In the poem "Easter Wings" 17th century poet and Anglican priest George Herbert proposes the subsuming of Jesus' triumph into the self as a way to be purified from sin.

A deeply religious poet, Anne Bradstreet focuses on the interrelationships of nature, humanity, and the Divine in her spiritual masterpiece "Contemplations."

The speaker in "Two Tramps in Mud Time" dramatizes his encounter with two unemployed lumberjacks who covet the speaker's wood-splitting task.

The speaker of Philip Larkin's "Here" is hardly present; however, the speaker's mood and character might be discerned by merely observing his choices for description.

The speaker of "To a Waterfowl" is inspired after watching a water bird flying high in the sky, an irony revealing mysterious Divine guidance.

The devotee in Yogananda's "At the Fountain of Song" dramatizes his search for self-realization.

R. S. Gwynn's poem conflates the Snow White fable, the seven deadly sins, biblical allusion, and a stereotype of Catholic sensibility to dramatize an unholy marriage.

Wilfred Owen's famous war poem describes the agony of war by dramatizing a single scene filled with the misery caused by mustard gas.

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.

W. H. Auden was born February 21, 1907, in York, England. One of his most noted poems is "Funeral Blues," which was featured in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Laurence Binyon's speaker celebrates the transcendence of the soldiers who have fought so bravely and died for freedom.

John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, "The Pumpkin," is light-hearted, yet it uses a highly charged allusion to make the poem more than mere whimsy.

While demonstrating the nature of a true patriot, the speaker in Yogananda's "My Native Land" offers a loving tribute to India, the country of his birth.

Hailed by Thomas Hardy as the finest poem of the twentieth century, Walter de le Mare's mysterious poem leaves much to the imagination.

Emily Dickinson, in her poem of cosmic drama, portrays Death as a gentleman carriage driver, for whom she ceases her leisure as well as her work.

Published in 1901, The Ruined Maid, like Hardy's novels, comments on the ironies of Victorian morality. This dramatic dialogue points up accepted social mores by way of a

Since the 1960s, in Western culture, "duty" has been a dirty word. It smacks of kowtowing to authority, not being allowed to "do your own thing"; it cramps your style.

Emily Dickinson looks at life from a unique perspective, making bizarre claims that often turn out to be accurate and show valuable insight into reality.

Dana Gioia's poem, "Words," delightfully describes the necessity as well as the unnecessary nature of the poet's most important tool--a fascinating paradox.

The speaker of David Solway's "What Makes a Poem" suggests the making of malt liquor as he associates it with the making of a poem.

The speaker in the Kipling's "Helen All Alone" is addressing the issue of temptation, and he professes relief at the end that he did not give in to it.

The speaker in D. H. Lawrence's "Last Lesson of the Afternoon" is a teacher, who has become cynical about his student's lackluster performance.

The speaker's tribute to this father and grandfather who labored hard for a living dramatizes the differences between the speaker's labor and theirs.

The speaker in William Stafford's "Traveling through the Dark" dramatizes an incident that forced him to make a life and death decision.

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda's "Thou in Me" celebrates the union of the individual soul with Divinity or the Over-Soul, as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it.

In this poem, the speaker dramatizes the spiritual oasis that he can summon even in the midst of the day's hustle and bustle by merely focusing on the call of the Divine.

In this c.1862 poem, Dickinson expresses her individual approach to religion, which is influenced in part by her experiences at Mount Holyoke.

John Betjeman's poem titled "Christmas" portrays the sour perspective of a doubter and misrepresents Jesus' birthplace.

Millay's "Renascence" dramatizes a mystical experience that results in the speaker's new birth, realizing the depth of love and the power of the soul.

The importance of the sound of a bell, especially the church bell, is dramatized in Housman's "Bredon Hill."

Canada's outstanding poet, David Solway, offers a lush scene of communicating plant and animal residents of a garden in spring in his poem simply titled, "The Garden."

The poem "I taste a liquor never brewed" portrays the speaker's spiritual intoxication through an extended metaphor likening her soul drunkenness to alcohol inebriation.

Hughes' poem resembles a rhythm and blues tune, a form that the Harlem Renaissance poet employed quite often to great effect.

Tagore's "The Journey" is from his most important collection titled Gitanjali, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1913.

John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Barefoot Boy" is reminiscent of Dylan Thomas' "Fern Hill"; both dramatize memories of boyhood. Whittier offers a special nod to summer.

Guruji's "Nature's Nature" is one of those poems that portrays the bliss of samadhi so tangibly that the devotee cannot help but pine for attainment of that state.