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 “Root Cellar” was written by Theodore Roethke. The poem was first written in 1943. The poem was first published as “Florist’s Root Cellar” in November 1943 of Poetry magazine. Later, in 1948, it was included in Roethke’s second collection of poetry, The Lost Son and Other Poems. The poem describes the life … Read more
Introduction: The poem “Night Journey” was written by Theodore Roethko. The poem was published in his poetry collection Open House, in 1941. It was the first collection of his poems. The poem describes a passenger experience of travelling on a train at night. It is a beautiful love that shows the poet’s love towards the … Read more
