Deeply personal and confessional, Sylvia Plath's poetic voice find a lot of admirers. What was there in her life that…
Walt Whitman is one of America’s most influential nineteenth century poets. His verse collection Leaves of Grass (1855) is regarded…
The biography of Maya Angelou is full of descriptions of frenzied activity for the benefit of mankind. Angelo distinguished herself…
In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here…
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you. But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.…
Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire…
The leaves are falling, falling as from far, As if far gardens in the skies were dying; They fall, and…
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom…
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew…
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With…