Her husband. That is how the late poet Ted Hughes is best known today. Not as ‘s former poet laureate or as the author of such estimable collections as “Lupercal” or “Crow,” but as Sylvia Plath’s husband, whose infidelity helped spur her to grief and suicide, as the man who presided over her literary estate ...
Allen Ginsberg is well-known as a Beat poet who condemns many aspects of contemporary American society. “A Supermarket in California” is no exception. This Ginsberg poem condemns both the lack of meaningful contact among human beings and American consumerism. Ginsberg evokes Walt Whitman in order to help him emphasize the lack of meaningful contact. Whitman ...
For the very reason that so many irrational and unattainable things exist in the universe, modern poetry exists; modern poets like Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Yeats, Williams, Eliot, and Pound, each contributed to the modernist era by trying to make sense of the irrational, trying to find light in the darkness, order in the chaos. ...
Though Billy Collins was named the poet laureate of the United States, he has received criticism from some about the merit of his works. There are those who argue that his poetry has been dumbed-down and others say that his poems are more of a “stating-the-obvious” type commentary on daily events rather than any type ...
Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, ...
There are many online and print journals that accept poetry submissions via e-mail, in fact, there are many that prefer e-mail submissions. There are certain rules to follow when submitting via e-mail to any journal. After much trial and error I have finally figured out some of the best ways to submit my work via ...
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