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The Falling Leaves is a poem written by Margaret Postgate-Cole (1893–1980) in November 1915 about World War I. [1] Cole was an English atheist, feminist, pacifist, and socialist; her pacifist views influenced her poetry. Her brother was jailed for refusing to obey conscription. She wrote poems about World War I and against the government.
Satirical print from 1830 depicting a goose lamenting the loss of the Commons to Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, a Duke and King William IV. "The Goose and the Common", also referred to as "Stealing the Common from the Goose", is a poem written by an unknown author that makes a social commentary on the social injustice caused by the privatization of common land during the ...
The Orange Tree at Wikisource " The Orange Tree " is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson . [ 1 ] It was first published in The Bookfellow on 15 February 1921, and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.
The poem is also connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic. In the weeks preceding Yeats′s writing of the poem, his pregnant wife, Georgie, caught the virus and was very close to death, but she survived. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women, who in some areas had a death rate of up to 70%.
Frost composed the poem at his farm in Derry, New Hampshire; his home from 1901 to 1911 "Mending Wall" is a poem by Robert Frost.It opens Robert's second collection of poetry, North of Boston, [1] published in 1914 by David Nutt, and has become "one of the most anthologized and analyzed poems in modern literature".
(Wall poem in The Hague) "This Is Just to Say" (1934) is an imagist poem [1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it were a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [2] [3]
On Saturday in Turner, Oregon, a statue of nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty took a tumble off a wall at the Enchanted Forest amusement park. Talk about life imitating art ... or perhaps life ...
The poem's speaker tells us he "shall be telling", at some point in the future, of how he took the road less traveled … yet he has already admitted that the two paths "equally lay / In leaves" and "the passing there / Had worn them really about the same." So the road he will later call less traveled is actually the road equally traveled.