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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 book's poems span topics like love, divinity, and family, specifically Lee's father who was a political prisoner in Indonesia for a year. In many of his poems, Lee addresses his family's history of experiencing and fleeing persecution. In NPR, Lee explained: "my father was a political prisoner. And the reason he was kept safe was because of ...
"To This Day" is a 2011 spoken word poem written by Shane Koyczan. [1] [2] In the poem, Koyczan talks about bullying he and others received during their lives and its deep, long-term impact. [3] Koyczan first came to international notice when he read his poetry at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics' Opening Ceremony. [4]
All poetry was originally oral, it was sung or chanted; poetic form as we know it is an abstraction therefrom when writing replaced memory as a way of preserving poetic utterances, but the ghost of oral poetry never vanishes. [28] Poems may be read silently to oneself, or may be read aloud solo or to other people.
Sappho probably wrote around 10,000 lines of poetry; today, only about 650 survive. [4] She is best known for her lyric poetry , written to be accompanied by music. [ 4 ] The Suda also attributes to her epigrams , elegiacs , and iambics ; three of these epigrams are extant, but are in fact later Hellenistic poems inspired by Sappho. [ 48 ]
“Another world, another day, another dawn. The early morning’s thinnest sliver of light appeared silently.” ― Douglas Adams “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of ...
And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
One Today" is a poem by Richard Blanco first recited at the second inauguration of Barack Obama, making Blanco the fifth poet to read during a United States presidential inauguration. "One Today" was called "a fine example of public poetry, in keeping with Blanco’s other work: Loose, open lines of mostly conversational verse, a flexible ...