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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world.
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This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus "when I am stronger" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would ...
When We Were Very Young is a best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne. [1] It was first published in 1924, and it was illustrated by E. H. Shepard.Several of the verses were set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson.
Short LGBTQ quotes “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” — Marsha P. Johnson “We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.”
Her most recent book is HOP TO IT: Poems to Get You Moving, an anthology of 100 poems by 90 poets that focuses on the topics of movement, the pandemic, and social justice. She is the winner of the 2021 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, a lifetime achievement award considered the most prestigious award that a children's poet can ...
When I Was Growing Up is an autobiographical poem written by revolutionary feminist activist, Nellie Wong in 1973, [1] describing her struggle to identify as an Asian-American girl growing up in the United States.