Poetry

Poetry Tuesday – William Butler Yeats

April 1, 2008

One of my favorite poets is William Butler Yeats. I’m a sucker for Modern British writers. Here are two of my favorite Yeats poems with some commentary: The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1890) I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine [...]

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Poetry Tuesday: Spring

March 25, 2008

Here are a few poems on spring in an effort to hurry it here. The Enkindled Spring by David Herbert Lawrence This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up, and the flickering, watery [...]

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Poetry Tuesday

March 18, 2008

I think every Tuesday is in need of a bit of poetry. On this, the inaugural Poetry Tuesday, I want to share two of my current favorite poems. Both of them come from a project called Poetry 180. Poetry 180 is a project started by Billy Collins, former poet laureate, in an effort to bring [...]

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