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Lord Herbert Edward
A poet who both sucks and is dead. |
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William Blake
A poem of aspiration and desires. The poet hopes to be in the likeness of the sunflower that shows eternal enthusiasm for the future. |
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William Shakespeare
Bittersweet mood present throughout the play of which it is sung in. Shows the emotions of weather. |
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| An Irish Airman Foresees His Death |
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W.B. Yeats
An elegy of a pilot about to encounter his own death. |
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William Blake
The clod and pebble exchange thoughts on love. |
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Ben Johnson
The hero Clerimont is irrated with his lady who, he says, wears too much makeup. |
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Robert Herrick
The poet is bewitched by the disorder in a woman. |
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Bob Dylan
Two lovers part, with a woman sailing away. |
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Dudley Randall
It is about a young girl, who is forced to go to church by her mother because she thinks it is the safest place to be at the time. However, her sentiments are proved wrong and the young girl is killed by the bomb explosion. |
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Anonymous
Lord Randall is poisoned by his sweetheart. |
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Anonymous
Two ravens discuss dinner plans of an abandoned dead knight. |
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Anonymous
A great sailor is sent out to sea to bring home a princess. |
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Anonymous
A woman sends her three sons away to school, and finds out later that they have died at sea. |
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John Keats
An encounter with a knight and a nymph. |
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Thomas Hardy
A quiet country churchyard on a dark night, and the sense of gunfire from the sea. Forebodes World War I |
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Thomas Hardy
A family ages as seasons pass. |
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Stevie Smith
A man who's thrashing at sea is confused for waving, and not drowning. |
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John Betjeman
A nurse walks into a room to find a woman dead. |
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| As I Walked Out One Evening |
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W.H. Auden
The poet walks out one evening to find two lovers exchanging words to eachother. The poem emphasizes the conflict between time and love. |
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Christopher Marlowe
Love poem where a man idealizes his woman. |
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Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph rejects the images put forth by the shepard |
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Sir Walter Ralegh
A social criticism where the speaker goes around telling people of their misdeeds and wrongdoings, and if they object, publicly accuse them (or give them "the lie". |
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| A Valedictorian Forbidding Mourning |
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John Donne
One lover professes his love for another as they part. |
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| Now Winter Nights Enlarge |
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| Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed |
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Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed.
I am out of humanity's reach
I must finish my journey alone |
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Long syllable followed by two short ones.
Picture your self in a boat on a river with
tangerine tree-ees and marmalade skii-ii-es. |
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Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield |
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Stressed syllable followed by an unstressed.
Peter, Peter pumpkin-eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her. |
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