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Looking for some peace and quiet? Robert Frostโs poem โA Prayer in Springโ just might give you some inspiration. As I often mention in my poetry posts, try to read this poem out loudโit has a great rhythm that you might completely miss out on if you read it silently. And that would be unfortunate, …
The poem presented in this post is titled โIn Aprilโ. Written by the celebrated Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875โ1926), it was first published in 1902, in the collection of poems The Book of Images (orig. Das Buch der Bilder). Rainer Maria Rilke Rilke was known and is still much appreciated for his way with …
William Carlos Williams (1883โ1963) was one of the most important American poets of the 20th century: a modernist of the imagist kind, he was known for using simple and colloquial language to express his ideasโa feature many critics now consider typical of modern American poetry. This can be contrasted with the modernists such as T. …
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Whitmanโs poem featured in this post is a very short one, originally published in the Herald newspaper on 12th March 1888. It just so happened that immediately after its publication, a major blizzard hit the state of New York, which made the poetโs timing rather unfortunate, and the subject of many jokes. It reminded me …
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