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The poem presented in this post is unlikely to chase your winter blues, to be honest, but it's an excellent one! Penned by Edgar Allan Poe, โAloneโ is a deeply personal and intimate reflection on what is now commonly described as chronic depression. This mental health condition was the troubled poetโs lifelong companion, as attested …
William Cullen Bryant was a 19th century American romanticist poet, abolitionist and civil right advocate. Originally a lawyer, he started publishing poems in the early 1820s. Later in the decade he became the editor of the New York Review and the New York Evening Post, solidifying his position as a prominent man of letters and …
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With Thanksgiving Day coming up, in this blog post Iโm going to present her poem โThanksgivingโ, found in the 1903 edition of Poems of Power. It cautions against taking things for granted and urges readers to appreciate the simple joys of life.
There's about a dozen poets that I've always felt a special affinity to. Some well-known names are among them, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, but there are also those whose works seem to have fallen out of favour with the reading public and who are no longer household names. One …
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