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How to Write Haiku
Haiku are short poems with three lines and a certain number of syllables on each line.
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Rumi, Hafiz, & the Truth of the Mystic Poets
According to the great Persian Sufi Poet Rumi (1207-1273), love is the most difficult concept to define, "My pen splinters when I write Love,"* he writes.
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How Ovid's Heroides Used Virgil's Aeneid
Ovid wanted to retell part of Virgil's Aeneid in his own way. But his Heroides doesn't change the Dido and Aeneas story, one of many tales in Ovid's early poem.
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Poema de Fernán González
The historical figure, Count Fernán González of Castile, provides the basis for the famous chivalric poem that bears his name.
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The River of Poetry
The evolution of Black Poetry has typically been excluded from mainstream literature.
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Dante Rossetti and the Paradox of Time
Rossetti portrays time paradoxically as that which lends peacefulness and elevation, but also as that which is simultaneously haunting in its inevitable passing.
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Sarojini Naidu – Nightingale of India – Poems
Many of Sarojini Naidu's poems are infused with political and social commentary; but, quite a few are simply musings on life; meditative and halcyonic.
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Book Review – Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems
For a very select audience, this documentation of 21 years of Seamus Heaney's poetry career will be an enjoyable and cathartic journey through Ireland and its culture.
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Poems of Kabir and Bible
In addition to being part of the Hindu Bhakti Movement and Islamic Sufi mysticism, Kabir's poems also share similar spiritual and moral themes with the Bible.
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The Poetry of Protest in South Africa
Under Apartheid, many South African artists were banned under the oppressive regime. Mongane Wally Serote uses thinly-veiled metaphor to speak out in "For Don M - Banned"
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The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse Reviewed
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse is a collection of poems by and about gay people, but has Stephen Coote put together a concise anthology or is this collection crass?
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Indian Mystic Poet Kabir Das
The poetic works of Kabir Das transcend religions and reveal a universal spiritual consciousness in simple and easy to understand language.
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Contemporary Irish Language Poetry
Even as the number of Irish Gaelic speakers in each Gaeltacht diminished, a group of Irish poets in Cork in the 1970s was beginning to write modern Irish language poetry.
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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
The most well-known of a group of Irish-language poets based in Cork, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill blends the folklore of the Gaeltacht with a postmodern worldview.
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Poetry and Identity in New Zealand and Palestine
Creative writers in different cultures have been the voice of their people in times of war and hardship, showing surprising parallels across language and distance.
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Poetry, Politics and Hard Times
Are war, recession and climate change more likely to nurture left- or right-wing writers and spoken word artists?
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Rilke's Duino Elegy: All this was mission
First Elegy, continued: lines 27 through 37 analysis of content with help from Carl Jung psychology of the Self. What is the "Beloved" in the context of Rilke's poetry?
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Rilke's Duino Elegy Continued, Lines 8 to 25
Rilke's first Duino Elegy develops themes of angelic presence, solitude, loneliness, love in Jungian terms of archetype, projection and transference.
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Rilke's Duino Elegies Address Angel Archetypes
Rainer Marie Rilke overhears famous opening lines at Duino Castle in Italy while out walking. Helps overcome writer's block and begins great work: Duino Elegies, 1923.
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Famous Spanish Poet - Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado - 1875 - 1939 - A popular Poetry Writer in the pre-Civil War days.
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Heaney's Not-British Identity
Seamus Heaney wrote not only of his identity as an Irishman, but Northern Ireland's semi-schizophrenic position as both British and Irish.
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Ono no Komachi, Legendary Poet
Over a thousand years ago, a noblewoman became one of Japan's greatest poets and caused romantic scandals. She's commemorated in legend, theater, railroads and rice.
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The Story of Savitri and Satyavan
The legend of Savitri is one of the supplementary stories found in the Mahabharata which help to clarify philosophical points or emphasize pivotal moments in the poem.
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Mickiewicz’s Epic Poem Pan Tadeusz
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) was one of 19th century Poland's "Three Bards" who grew up in political turmoil. As a poet he was bound to express the unrest of his time.
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