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Poetry

Robert Grave poem “How it started” No 2 in “How poetry works.”

Marvell’s To his Coy Mistress: the poet meets the pants man

Emily Dickinson’s Metaphysical Poetry: Because I could not stop for Death

A Quiet Passion and The Importance of being Emily

How poetry works: two love poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

It’s okay not to like William Wordsworth’s Daffodils or any of the other accepted classics for that matter

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18: The transient and immortal nature of beauty

The 1916 Easter Rising

Shelley’s “Ozymandias”

How poetry works: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73

The man and his muse (ii): Robert Graves and the White Goddess

Men and their muses (i): two ends of the spectrum

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130: An unromantic love poem

Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess is the story of a rich powerful old man and his trophy wives.

Rupert Brooke’s The Soldier is still relevant today

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