Autumn and love PINNEDLove appeared suddenly and never moved away. Well, that's my life in a nutshell. My favourite time of year is autumn. The leaves fall. There's a stillness before the storm in the air. William Shakespeare in his Sonnet No. 73 compared the autumn of... See More » (1)
Uneducated, old and femaleWhat the Uneducated Old Woman Told Me by Christopher Reid (1947) That she was glad to sit down. That her legs hurt in spite of the medicine. That times were bad. That her husband had died nearly thirty years before. That the war had changed things.... See More »
A poem line-by-line explainedThe poem is a first person account of the heartache and sadness felt by a speaker who appears to be not Millay herself, but the persona of an older woman. She can no longer remember the lovers of her past. What lips my lips have kissed, and where,... See More » (2)
Here, a poem by Wisława SzymborskaI don’t know about elsewhere But here on Earth we’ve got a vast supply of everything. Here, manufactured are chairs And sadness, Scissors, violins, Tenderness, transistors, Water dams, jokes, Teacups. Perhaps somewhere else, there is more of... See More »
Nothing Gold Can Stay (1923)Robert Frost argued with his poem that the most precious, "golden" moments in life cannot last, echoing the biblical fall from Eden. This is written in the famous Roaring Twenties (1920-1929) which ended with the stock market crash in 1929, leading... See More » (1)
