Introduction Sleeping in the Forest is a poem written by the famous American poet Mary Oliver. The poem was first published in a 16-page chapbook in the Ohio Review by the name Sleeping in the Forest (Ohio University) in the year 1978. The chapbook consisted of twelve poems, among which Sleeping in the Forest was … Read more
Introduction A Bird, came down the Walk is a poem written by the American poet Emily Dickinson. The poem can be found in the second collection of poetry, Poems: Second Series, which was published posthumously in 189. “A Bird, came down the Walk” is included in this collection and many other editions of Dickinson’s complete … Read more
Introduction Portrait in Georgia is a poem written by the poet Jean Toomer. It first appeared in Jean Toomer’s modernist work Cain. Published in 1923, Cane is a unique blend of poetry and prose that explores the experiences of African Americans in the rural South and the urban North. Toomer’s writing in “Cane” reflects a … Read more
Introduction I, Too is a poem written by the famous African-American poet Langston Hughes. The poem was first published in Hughes’ first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. This poem, along with Hughes’ other works, paved the way to define the Harlem Renaissance, an era of newfound cultural identity for African Americans in … Read more
Introduction Had I the Choice is a poem by the famous American poet Walt Whitman. The poem first appeared in Whitman’s celebrated work Leaves of Grass. The poem comes under the section Fancies at Navesink published in the 1885 volume. In this poem, Whitman talks about the creative process of writing and speaks of his … Read more
Introduction Now I knew I Lost Her is a poem by the American poet Emily Dickinson. The poem appeared in several anthologies that were published posthumously after Dickinson’s death. One of the collections was The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition edited by Ralph W. Franklin and published in 1998. The poem explores the emotional … Read more
Introduction Come Slowly-Eden is a poem written by the American poet Emily Dickinson. The poem can be found in Thomas H. Johnson’s edition, The Poems of Emily Dickinson, published in 1955, which is one of the most well-known and widely used compilations of her poetry. “Come slowly – Eden!” is included in this collection and … Read more
Introduction Elegy for Jane is a poem written by the famous American poet, Theodore Roethke. The poet wrote this poem after the death of his student, Janne Bannick, a young woman who fell off a horse and tragically passed away. This poem appears in Rothke’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection, The Waking, which was published in … Read more
Introduction The poem is a melancholy, melancholy elegy that does a fantastic job of capturing the emotions connected to grief. The poem’s lasting popularity may be explained by its heartbreaking declarations and deft twists, which lend it a genuine poignancy. It demonstrates Auden’s poetic empathy for human feelings. The world changes for someone who has … Read more
Introduction Anne Stevenson’s “The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument” explores the difficult process of conceiving a new life and how the spirit is unable to accomplish it. The speaker highlights throughout the poem how extraordinarily complex a human kid is and how flawlessly the process must proceed for every tendon and sinew to do … Read more
