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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere), written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, is a poem that recounts the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.
A Maze of Stars (Fanxing) and Spring Water (Chunshui), are two collections of poetry written by Bing Xin.They were both published in 1923 when she was 19 years old and directly inspired the poetic movement of short poetry (xiaoshi in classical Mandarin) that emerged after the May Fourth Movement and the New Literature movement.
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou.Many of the poems in Diiie were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
The duck, flying across the sunset, seemed to Bryant as solitary a soul as himself, and he wrote the poem that evening. [4] "To a Waterfowl" was first published in the North American Review in Volume 6, Issue 18, March 1818. [5] It was later published in the collection Poems in 1821. [1]
"The Wave" is a poem expressing Gruffudd's homesickness as, on board a ship in a Spanish harbour, he awaits favourable weather for his return journey. [8] It is also a cywydd llatai, a love poem in which a non-human messenger is sent to the beloved, [9] in this case one of the massive North Atlantic billows for which the Bay of Biscay is known
The literary historian Richard L. Greene called it "one of the most haunting lyrics of all the Middle Ages", [2] and Edith Sitwell thought it "a miracle of poetry". [3] It is a notoriously enigmatic poem, perhaps devotional, perhaps secular, which depicts a maiden in the wilderness who lives on flowers and spring-water.
Mentioning the balance of these writing methods mirrors the poems' focus on the trans-formative nature of water which constantly changes states. [2] From his interview with Gross, Stephen Adams of The Telegraph writes : "At its heart is a simple theme - the ever changing nature of water.