Memorial Day is about history. As we learned in school, much of civilized history is measured by wars. The best that can be said of war is that it has preserved our freedom when oppressors have sought to dominate us. Valiant people fight these wars for us and Memorial Day is a time to remember ...
Edward Estlin Cummings is probably one of the best known experimental poetry authors of all time. He wrote with a bizarre style and a complete disregard for the rules of conventional poetry, and English in general. This is what draws most people to his poetry. But poetry was not all that he did in his ...
Although Robert Frost was born in San Fransisco, he called the North Eastern United States his childhood home because he moved to Massachusetts with his mother, after his father’s death. Robert Frost had superior schooling growing up, and even went on to study at Harvard University, though he left Harvard before attaining his degree. Frost ...
Sleep and dream poems cast cobwebs of moonlight over us. Some yearn for sleep, others get lost in a dream, yet other poems speak of daydreams and wishes. And so, this collection of audio poems is as varied as our dreams themselves. Relive the restlessness of a sleepless night, or the ache of waking from ...
William Wordsworth is regarded as one of the founders of Romantic poetry, and was a major influence in the movement known as Romanticism. His poems were written for common people, about common people, and normally relating to nature. Two of his most famous poems, “Michael: A Pastoral Poem,” which was the final poem in the ...
Sylvia Plath may be one of the most influential modern poets. Born in a middle class family in Boston in 1932, her parents were Otto and Aurelia Plath. Otto met Aurelia while teaching at Boston University and had an affair with her while still married to but separated from his previous wife. Sylvia was the ...
James Langston Hughes was one of the most inspiring poets of the Harlem Renaissance. He was born in the city of Joplin, Missouri on the day of February 1, 1902. He lived through the rough times for African Americans in American Society. His lifestyle he grew up in helped him become such a special poet ...