Death is the sole, inevitable truth of life, and those with loved ones must one day accept that they will have to live through the deaths of others throughout their lifetime. Christina Rossetti’s “Remember” and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Cross of Snow” both feature narrators...
By looking at Emily Dickinson’s poem 666 “I cross till I am weary,” we can see the poet’s connections between the nature of life or spirituality and the subtleties of rhyme as well as meter; this link is important because it sets a tone for...
The first U.S. Poet Laureate for three consecutive years (from 1997-2000), Pinsky has succeeded in much more than poetry. In 1984, for example, he was the author of an interactive fiction game called Mindwheel; today, he is the poetry editor for the irreverent online Slate...
In “Oh my love is like a red, red rose” by Robert Burns, the poem centralizes a man’s expressive, lasting love for someone. The theme of this poem conveys the power of long-lasting love and how it may affect a person’s feelings. In this case,...