poetry analysis

‘The More Loving One’ by W.H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But…

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‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ (Wilfred Owen)

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares…

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‘The Swan’ by Rainer Maria Rilke (Translated by Robert Bly)

This clumsy living that moves lumbering as if in ropes through what is not done, reminds us of the awkward…

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‘To a young girl’ by W. B. Yeats

MY dear, my dear, I know More than another What makes your heart beat so; Not even your own mother…

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‘The good morrow’ by John Donne

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But…

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‘The Tay Moses’ by Kathleen Jamie

What can I fashion for you but a woven creel of river- rashes, a golden oriole’s nest my gift wrought…

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‘Nothing will die’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson

When will the stream be aweary of flowing Under my eye? When will the wind be aweary of blowing Over…

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‘Chanson d’automne’ (‘Autumn Song’) by Paul Verlaine

Les sanglots longs Des violons De l’automne Blessent mon coeur D’une langueur Monotone. Tout suffocant Et blême, quand Sonne l’heure,…

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‘Do not go gentle’ by Dylan Thomas

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn…

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“O captain! My Captain!..” by Walt Whitman

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is…

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