Many thanks, Mr Tweedie, for your kind and thoughtful words. I generally agree with you on Wordsworth’s use of rhyme (and his choice not to use it), although certainly he enjoyed notable successes with it, too. I am very glad you found my discussion of the great Tintern Abbey profitable; the peak of Wordsworth’s writing, and the peak of my writing about Wordsworth! As for Daffodils, we shall have to be content to disagree, but I find myself wishing that if only Wordsworth had written a little poem entitled ‘Scorn not the daffodil’, I might then have used it to make a case!

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The poem is in two discrete parts, the first of which relates the tale: Sir Walter relentlessly hunts the hart and finds it dead by a spring after leaping a tremendous distance (which he deduces from the number of hoofprints in the earth). The element of the mysterious is strongly suggested by Wordsworth himself:But we’re here to make poetry submissions easier by narrowing down some of our favorite magazines and periodicals. To help you start your research, we've got information on each magazine's deadlines, compensation policy, and submission guidelines.

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The speaker in Lisa Olstein’s ‘Dear One Absent This Long While’ is anxiously waiting for her loved one to return home. The nervous buzz of anticipation as the speaker waits to return to a life of comfort and mundanity, a puzzle from which their lover is the only missing piece, gives this love poem a beautiful raw honesty. 45. "My Lover Is a Woman" by Pat Parker my lover is a woman & when i hold her feel her warmth i feel good feel safe

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Ut pictura poesis is a Latin phrase literally meaning "as is painting so is poetry". The statement (often repeated) occurs most famously in Horace's Ars Poetica, near the end, immediately after another famous quotation, " bonus dormitat Homerus", or " even Homer nods" (an indication that even the most skilled poet can compose inferior verse): If anything in Wordsworth rings true and timely to us today, it is that common concern in him and us for the destruction of nature by humanity, what Wordsworth himself calls elsewhere ‘the vulgar works of man’. This is the most beautiful and rigorous expression of that concern which I know. The poem then concludes on another note of exhortation, which resounds in the reader’s mind long, long, after the poem ceases to be read:

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These last three lines are surely amongst the greatest written by anyone—at least in English. But Wordsworth must always add a sense of the spiritual and sublime to his humane insights, and so follows the impressive passage: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing opens his Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (1766) by observing that "the first who compared painting with poetry [ Simonides of Ceos] was a man of fine feeling," [4] though, Lessing makes it clear, not a critic or philosopher. Lessing argues that painting is a synchronic, visual phenomenon, one of space that is immediately in its entirety understood and appreciated, while poetry (again, in its widest sense) is a diachronic art of the ear, one that depends on time to unfold itself for the reader's appreciation. He recommends that poetry and painting should not be confused, and that they are best practiced and appreciated "As two equitable friendly neighbouring states." [5] In 2009, Carol Ann Duffy made history when she was appointed the first female and openly lesbian British poet laureate. ‘Love’ is a perfect example of the monologue-style poems she is known for, fitting in with her usual sensory and emotional style of writing; here, she describes love as beautifully boundless, like the light of the sun or the crashing sound of waves. 26. "The Love Poem" by Carol Ann Duffy It is from the second, ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’, that the mystery of the ethereal ‘Lucy’ is treated: a b c d e Marcuse, Harold. "Martin Niemöller's famous confession: "First they came for the Communists ... " ". University of California at Santa Barbara.Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..." ". Holocaust Encyclopedia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . Retrieved 25 July 2018. One of Portugal’s greatest poets, Luís Vaz de Camões is known for his lyrical poetry and dramatic epics. ‘Love is a fire that burns unseen’ is an example of the former, reflecting his numerous turbulent love affairs and how each brought a complex fusion of pleasure and pain. 14. "Beautiful Signor" by Cyrus Cassells This is the endless wanderlust: dervish, yours is the April-upon-April love that kept me spinning even beyond your eventful arms toward the unsurpassed: Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace . . . with life.” —Mahmoud Darwish

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Lucy seems to hover between allegory (her name means Light) and (for want of a better word) reality. The discussion of these poems among passionate Wordsworthians rages on. But the mystery which makes them so powerful remains. The final poem of the set, ‘A slumber did my spirit seal’ is an excellent example of that sort of poem about which there is almost nothing to say which the poem itself does not put infinitely better. It boasts in its short space such compression, beauty, and mystery, you may profitably read it above for yourself. This epigraph—which Wordsworth extracted from another of his poems, ‘My Heart Leaps Up’—was added to the later, longer version of the poem (written 1804, published 1807), which is of 11 substantial stanzas in length. The first version (written 1802) is only three, and poses the problem: the fading away of the sense of the divine in nature with the coming of age: Kevin Varrone confesses how close he feels to his lover in ‘poem I wrote sitting across the table from you’. Written in a moment of procrastination as he worked on a longer verse in a coffee shop, the poem expresses how Varrone wants his lover to partake on all of his adventures, no matter how big or small. 61. "On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong Tell me it was for the hunger & nothing less. For hunger is to give the body what it knows If you’ve ever been on a London tube, this book needs no introduction. Over the years, the much imitated initiative has saved tens of thousands of frazzled travellers from seething fury. There’s nothing like a fragment of Sappho, John Donne, Philip Larkin, Derek Walcott or Louis MacNeice to remind you that the world is “crazier and more of it than we think / Incorrigibly plural”.Widely regarded as the ‘Father of English poetry’, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote some of the most renowned works of the English language, including ‘The Canterbury Tales’ and ‘The Book of the Duchess’. The standalone poem ‘Rondel of Merciless Beauty’ (here translated from Middle English) recounts Chaucer’s heartbreak after being left by the love of his life, pledging his everlasting devotion to her even though it pains him. 16. "Love Comes Quietly" by Robert Creeley Matthew Yeager’s ‘Poem to First Love’ is a bittersweet young romance where, as the title suggests, the speaker is reminiscing about his relationship with his first love, and explores the different ways one might try to logically quantify the utterly illogical force of love.