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Retired professor of Microbiology, Harry Gilleland certainly has a wide variety of experiences and thought-provoking insights to share in his latest poetry book...

The value of writing poetry without thought of how bad it may be.

The saddest truth put in the form of poetry. This little boy's loss was more than a child should have to go through: He kept calling his mothers cell phone to hear her voice on her message service after she passed away. This is one true story that was really hard to pen to paper. My heart goes out to those suffering this kind of gut-wrenching loss, especially this little boy.

How to keep your work your very own

How an artist's mind works at times

Thomas's style of verse employs free association and musical concatenations. It sounds musical, but is this its sole effect – as word music where sense is secondary to euphonic syntax? Philip Larkin disapproved of Thomas's style because he felt the verse was too personalised and lacked communicative force

This is a poem in response to a story taken from "Talking French Fry Saves Woman's Life." By Chad Kultgen, Weekly World News

In his religious verse John Donne (1572-1631) used the same techniques he had developed in his love poetry. In this article I shall examine two of his religious poems, 'Holy Sonnet (Batter my Heart)', and 'A Hymn to God the Father.'

The Wife of Bath's prologue is a frank autobiographical confession, with which she entertains the other pilgrims on the journey to Canterbury. If we look to her for clear and logical reasoning we will be disappointed, but we can admire the skill with which she attempts to persuade the listeners with her own individual and forceful style of argument.

In the United States a major city has been named after the magical, mythical bird that was a part of legends of long ago. This city has kept alive the phoenix’s legend and a whole lot of popular books and movies have been made about this resurrecting bird. Even the phenomenally successful "Harry Potter" series includes the bird into characters and plots.

Review of: Poetry Speaks to Children ~ A MUST HAVE for poetry lovers.

William Shakespeare was an English poet, dramatist and actor, bynamed Bard of Avon. He is considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time and is called the English national poet.

This article is about retribution of Macbeths in Shakespeare’s play. It shows the cyclical nature of murder.

Hunger unfulfilled, the dream of realness clothed in the lie

The War Poets did not come to treat war in the grand and glorious manner of Brooke, who was ignorant of the matter beyond the Iliad, and their verses gained more attention during the course of the war - in several cases after their deaths.

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John Donne (1572-1631) established what has become known as the Metaphysical style of poetry which was taken up by later poets such as George Herbert (1593-1633) and Henry Vaughan (1622-95).

Love poems have been written for centuries to inspire lovers and create romance. Which one is the most famous though? Many famous love poems are written by classical poets, such as Lord Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Shakespeare, but the one probably seen most often quoted is from someone else.

An appreciation of the life and work of the English poet and journalist, whose work was admired by her fellow poets, who greatly valued her friendship. Some of the factors influencing her poetry are discussed.

George Gordon Byron was born in London on 22 January, 1788. Mother, soon after the birth of a son was abandoned by dissolute husband, and experienced the "shame of bitter poverty", indeed she was coming from the family of ancient Scottish kings and inherited the rich state, thoughtlessly spent by her husband.

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Ghazal originated in Iran in the 10th century A.D. It grew from the Persian qasida, which in verse form had come to Iran from Arabia. The qasida was a panegyric written in praise of the emperor or his noblemen. The part of the qasida called tashbib got detached and developed in due course of time into the ghazal. Whereas the qasida sometimes ran into as many as 100 couplets or more in monorhyme, the ghazal seldom exceeded twelve, and settled down to an average of seven. Because of its comparative brevity and concentration, its thematic variety and rich suggestiveness, the ghazal soon eclipsed the qasida and became the most popular form of poetry in Iran.

The ghazal in Urdu represents the most popular form of subjective poetry, while the nazm exemplifies the objective kind, often reserved for narrative, descriptive, didactic or satirical purposes. Under the broad head of the nazm we may also include the classical forms of poems known by specific names such as masnavi (a long narrative poem in rhyming couplets on any theme: romantic, religious, or didactic), marsia (an elegy traditionally meant to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain and his comrades of the Karbala fame), or qasida (a panegyric written in praise of a king or a nobleman), for all these poems have a single presiding subject, logically developed and concluded. However, these poetic species have an old world aura about their subject and style, and are different from the modern nazm, supposed to have come into vogue in the later part of the nineteenth century.

Article dealing with nursery rhymes as poetry, discussing the variety to be found in these verses, with examples. Citing reasons why nursery rhymes should continue to flourish.

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The act of writing poetry is something that is very personal to us poets, and sharing it for the first time can be a very frightening experience. The first experience of having your work criticized can boggle your mind and set you back a step in your writing. However, critique is essential in any writer’s career. Accepting criticism is something that we all must face, even if we don't like it.

Romantic love poems are enjoyed by almost anyone. They give a feeling, when written correctly of love and happiness and always get an immediet response.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) and Ezra Pound (1885-1872) were two Americans who lived in Europe and altered the manner and form of English poetry. Pound urged a conscious modernization of verse, and, in Eliot he believed he found a poet who had modernized himself already

Your first love

Seamus Heaney was the son of a farmer who worked 50 hectares of land and kept cattle. His mother was an Ulsterwoman who never stopped talking while his father rarely spoke. So, early in life, Seamus Heaney found himself stood between speech and silence.