In order to make simpler my explanation of poetic analysis I figured I would share a poem I wrote a couple of years ago for my girl friend. It is not quite long enough to call it a sonnet but it is relatively brief and I thought I could analyze it as a sample of […]
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“Frost’s best poetry exhibits the structure of symbolist metaphysical poetry. Much more clearly than does of many a modern poet.” Cleanth Brooks Robert Lee Frost was born in California but raised on a farm in the north eastern United States until the age of eleven. Like Eliot and Ezra Pound, he went to England, and […]
April is National Poetry Month. Poetry is the perfect venue to express the joy of spring. And spring it the ideal subject for poems! In my years as a Montessori teacher, we explored all forms of poetry with all ages of children. No child is too young to write poetry. Little ones can dictate their […]
The blog is an incredible tool for human communication, showing the world many different emotional angles from gossip to the sharing of personal treasures and triumph, but a poetry blog incorporates writing talents in a new way. Each facet of a poetry blog is an amazing utterance of being, the rambling of a coursing writer […]
The hands of many serious poets graced pages of paper over the centuries. Their use of formal words convey universal truths and invoke deep feelings. Philip Larkin is not one of them. Philip Larkin achieves a similar, if not a more profound effect, using a different approach. Philip Larkin uses exaggeration to emphasize the focuses […]