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A selection of portraits of Rossetti from London's National Portrait Gallery. Some depict her with her artistic family, and some are by a member of her artistic family—namely her brother, the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This poem is by now a bit too famous for its own good. Yet some masterpieces are so great that they will bear endless repetition without losing their effect, and I suspect that the spiritual balm of this poem’s opening lines (particularly the first) will soothe souls for as long as English is understood: I love being introduced to a poem by someone to whom it matters deeply. This anthology began with a conversation between Anthony Holden and the scholar-critic Frank Kermode, about the difference between true sentiment and mawkishness, and the pros and cons of men weeping. It delivers twice over: I relish reading an unfamiliar Seamus Heaney poem with Richard Curtis, or John le Carré’s choice of Goethe, because the sharing of a poem is such an intimate act. When you know which poems move a person – and there’s an excellent Poems That Make Women Cry, too – you glimpse who they might be, late at night, alone.
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A longer version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the British government, is as follows: [4] The theme of change threads through the 43 poems in this charmingly illustrated little book. Each of its contributors presents one of their own poems, alongside one of their favourite classic poems. You can flip from a Yeats (He mourns for the Change that has come upon him and his Beloved and longs for the End of the World) to Abigail Parry’s Instructions for Not Becoming a Werewolf. Irresistible, for all ages. a b c d e Marcuse, Harold. "Martin Niemöller's famous confession: "First they came for the Communists ... " ". University of California at Santa Barbara. Boedeker, Deborah & Sider, David [Eds.] 2001. The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire, New York & Oxford: Oxford U. Press - USA. A collection of essays on the Simonides papyri. Crapsey (1878-1914) is not much remembered now, but she left one important poetic legacy: the cinquain, or five-line unrhymed stanza form, modelled on the Japanese haiku. A number of her cinquains touch upon autumnal themes, and ‘November Night’ is the finest of these. (Though as Crapsey was an American poet we should probably describe ‘November Night’ as a great Fall poem.)
23. "Flirtation" by Rita Dove
On the one hand poetry is useless. It can’t change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It’s what makes human beings human.” —Bei Dao Simonides" redirects here. For other uses, see Simonides (disambiguation). Detail of a mosaic in Pompeii ( House of the Tragic Poet) showing a poet Corinthian vase depicting Perseus, Andromeda and Ketos; the names are written in the archaic Greek alphabet. During the excavation of the rubble of Scopas's dining hall, Simonides was called upon to identify each guest killed. Their bodies had been crushed beyond recognition but he completed the gruesome task by correlating their identities to their positions ( loci in Latin) at the table before his departure. He later drew on this experience to develop the 'memory theatre' or ' memory palace', a system for mnemonics widely used in oral societies until the Renaissance. [38] According to Cicero, Themistocles wasn't much impressed with the poet's invention: "I would rather a technique of forgetting, for I remember what I would rather not remember and cannot forget what I would rather forget." [39] Poltera, Orlando. Simonides lyricus: Testimonia und Fragmente. Einleitung, kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Basel 2008. About: “Here you'll find many types of poems on a variety of topics written by poets from all over the world. You'll find poetry that can teach you new things, make you feel, and make you think. Don't see your favorite type of poem? Give it a search or make it on Commaful and get it featured!”
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If this occasion which Wordsworth describes seems at first a little slight, he offers what is tantamount to a defence of his enthusiasm in the following stanza, where the daffodils are Autumn was the season of choice for A. E. Housman (1859-1936), who elsewhere wrote ‘I love no leafless land.’ Yet he wrote about leafless lands, and the sense of loss they convey, poignantly time and time again – and no better than here, in this poem from his 1922 volume Last Poems . Observe in Simonides his choice of words and his care in combining them; in addition—and here he is found to be better even than Pindar—observe how he expresses pity not by using the grand style but by appealing to the emotions. [68]
24. "Heart to Heart" by Rita Dove
Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott offers advice and reassurance to anyone experiencing a breakup in his poem ‘Love After Love’. Encouraging the reader to return to themselves, the poem is a tonic in a world full of love poetry which expects us to hand ourselves over to lovers completely. 63. "I Love You" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox I love your lips when they’re wet with wine And red with a wild desire; I love your eyes when the lovelight lies Lit with a passionate fire. I love your arms when the warm white flesh Touches mine in a fond embrace; I love your hair when the strands enmesh Your kisses against my face.
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