Poems of Auden: The More Loving One
In his poem ‘The More Loving One,’ originally included in the collection Homage to Clio, W.H. Auden tackles one of the biggest subjects of all in deceptively simple terms and words. In form, the poem...
View ArticlePoetry of Blake: The Book of Thel
The Book of Thel is one of William Blake’s allegorical poems on the themes of innocence and experience. It is written in a series of, mainly, five line stanzas which are unrhymed and composed of iambic...
View ArticlePoetry of Blake: The Chimney Sweeper
Blake’s tale of chimney sweep boys is particularly touching for me because my great grandfather was one of the last of the sweepers in Britain (I am Irish peasant on one side and East End of London...
View ArticleFun Things to Do – How to Write a Limerick
Limericks are quirky 5-line nonsense poems that usually bring a smile to the reader’s face. This form of poetry was made popular by British writer Edward Lear in the early 1900s, although he didn’t...
View ArticlePoetry of Blake: Cradle Song
Blake’s poem Cradle Song rests upon a contradiction, a contradiction that provides a rather unsettling sentiment that will be familiar to most if not all parents. How many times has it been said of a...
View ArticlePoetry of Blake: The Human Abstract
There are contradictions at the heart of just about every facet of the human experience. Nowhere is this more true than with religion or, at least, the Christian religion. Ask any person claiming to be...
View ArticlePoetry of Blake: The New Jerusalem
Blake’s poem The New Jerusalem has become one of his most popular works, in large part because of the stirring music put to it by Sir Hubert Parry. It rings out on so many occasions, from church...
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Mastering Poetry
Mastering Poetry Why do we, as poets protest against learning the fundamentals of poetry writing. I think it’s because we don’t want to be bothered with imagery, metrics and assonance. We had rather...
View ArticleAmbition in Quotes
If you want to get there in leaps and bounds beware of the spaces between those steps. A Burmese saying alit to the suggestion that such a movement would incur leaving yourself exposed and that would...
View Article100 Subreddits for Writers
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