American Literature

“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes

et America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on…

7 years ago

‘Ariel’ by Sylvia Plath

Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God’s lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of…

11 years ago

‘A noiseless patient spider’ by Walt Whitman

A noiseless, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant,…

11 years ago

‘Sudden Light’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door; The…

11 years ago

‘Wordsworth’s Skates’ by Seamus Heaney

Star in the window. Slate scrape. Bird or branch? Or the whet and scud of steel on placid ice? Not…

11 years ago