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The Road Not Taken. By Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both. And be one traveler, long I stood. And looked down one as far as I could. To where it bent in the undergrowth;
- Robert Frost
The poem masquerades as a meditation about choice, but the...
- Robert Frost
Feb 10, 2018 · 8. Edward Thomas, ‘The Dark Forest’. Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead Hang stars like seeds of light In vain, though not since they were sown was bred Anything more bright … This poem from the wonderful nature poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917) begins by describing a forest at night, above whose trees the stars shine like ‘seeds of ...
Jan 10, 2019 · So here we’ve picked ten of John Clare’s best poems which offer an introduction to his idiosyncratic style and wonderful eye for detail, especially concerning the natural world. ‘ First Love ’. I ne’er was struck before that hour. With love so sudden and so sweet, Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower.
Jul 14, 2017 · Dante’s Inferno, Canto I. (Poem by Dante Alighieri / translation by J. Simon Harris in terza rima) In the middle of the journey of our life. I found myself again in a dark forest, for I had lost the pathway straight and right. Ah how hard it is to describe, this forest. savage and rough and overwhelming, for.
Ode to a Nightingale. By John Keats. Share. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains. One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness,—.
The poem focuses on a speaker standing in a dark forest, listening to the beguiling and beautiful song of the nightingale bird. This provokes a deep and meandering meditation by the speaker on time, death, beauty, nature, and human suffering (something the speaker would very much like to escape!).
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Mar 27, 2017 · In this post we’ve selected ten of the best poems about trees and forests, written by some of the most famous poets in all of English literature. They range from poems set in symbolic gardens to poems about very specific trees that have been felled, to poems about trees which prompt thoughts of mortality and the brevity of life. 1.
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