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...previous years, searches for love poems and quotes increased more than 250% during the week of Valentine's Day. It's no surprise to find Lovingyou.com, a love poem and romantic advice site, is one of the most clicked-on Google results. When searching on "love poems" you can find countless collections of classic love poems or even writers who offer customized romantic prose...
...poetry should be a vehicle for political or social change,” Nagy says, while acknowledging the fact that it is not necessarily a popular opinion among fellow poets. Indeed, Nagy’s audience is intentionally small. Although an editor of poetry, he has published only one poem while at Harvard. His poems are usually written for one pair of eyes only, after which they are destroyed, never to be read by another person. Nagy’s wish for his poems to communicate on a personal level is a goal shared by many of colleagues, albeit...
...victim. I turned instead to the Tang dynasty poetry I had learned as a schoolgirl. It really amazed me that I was able to dig out from the deep recesses of my brain verses that had lain dormant for decades. Whenever I managed to piece together a whole poem, I felt a sense of happy accomplishment. My persistent efforts to maintain sanity had a measure of success. But there were still moments when I was so burdened with hunger and misery that I was tempted to let go my tenuous grip on the lifeline of survival. At those times...
...Women's Association presidents, murderous property developers or delusional district nurses. These, of course, are the dark characters Hall employs to keep Mrs. Shoddy's sanity at bay (most memorable of all, there's a big black bull that materializes from the fog). But as in the Robert Graves poem from which the novel takes its name ("? as when the young bird-catcher/ Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's daughter,/ So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly"), Hall's dark vision is lit by a transforming lyricism, with bravura passages that can take the breath away...
...Literature Leo Damrosch, was a creative thesis titled “’If Answerable Style I Can Obtain...’: An Analysis and Account of Illustrating Paradise Lost” — a film noir-style graphic rethinking of John Milton’s classic poem, which won Chiang a summa cum laude reading and a Hoopes Prize. Damrosch remembers Chiang as one of his all-time favorite students because of his “no bullshit” attitude and self-confidence, he says. Not knowing how to apply his joint degree, Chiang applied...