April 2003
National Poetry
Month
/ National Library Week
April 2003
National Poetry
Month
/ National Library Week
Here are your
favorite poems:
| Poet |
Poem |
You |
You love this poem because: |
| William Blake |
The Little Black Boy |
Hubert Meunier |
I like Blake, and this is one of his fine poems.
The theme is the equality of man in the eyes of God |
| William Butler Yeats |
Adam's Curse |
Mary Lou Anderson |
Yeats is a wonderful poet who uses language to
reveal deep feeling and emotion. This poem is about his work as a
poet and the world's scorn for poetry, but it's also about love and the
sadness sometimes associated with love. |
| Denise Levertov |
Annunciation |
Julie O'Shea |
|
| Langston Hughes |
Let America be America Again, Dream Deferred |
Daniel Socha |
It captures the feelings and emotions of those
involved with the Civil Rights movement. |
| Derek Walcott |
Odyssey: A Stage Version |
Catherine Fuller |
I want to learn more about this Caribbean poet. |
| Joyce Kilmer |
Trees |
It reminds me of spring and what mother nature
holds in store all year long: "A tree that looks at God all day and lifts
its leafy arms to pray..." |
|
| Seamus Heaney |
Digging |
Julie O'Shea |
|
| Rumi |
The Guest House |
Carol McGuiggan |
It is a wonderful reflective piece for my morning
mindfulness meditations, which I use in yoga classes. |
| Langston Hughes |
Dream[s?] Deferred |
It is so simple yet deep and elegant. |
|
| John Hodgen |
On Carrying my Mother's Cremated Remains to Virginia
Beach to Give to my Brother |
Mary Brunelle |
It was an emotional experience to hear Mr. Hodgen
read at a d'Alzon Arts Poetry Reading last semester. I see and feel
that same raw emotion in this poem. |
| W.H. Auden |
Musee des Beaux Arts |
Nina Tsantinis |
It is about art and about suffering. Read the poem
while viewing the painting! |
| Theodore Roethke |
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze |
Julie O'Shea |
|
| Allen Ginsberg |
Kaddish Part 1 |
The images of sorrow, confusion, hate and love
are so personal, yet they seem to have a strangely universal quality. |
|
| Dan Provost |
Fat Girl on Belmont Street (Chap book) |
Dan Provost |
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| John Keats |
St. Agnes' Eve |
Elisabeth Howe |
Of its imagery. |
| Wendell Berry |
To Go By Singing |
Dawn Thistle |
It reminds me that singing is a gift of joy to
be freely given and shared. |
| W.B. Yeats |
The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
Nina Tsantinis |
It describes the ultimate getaway. |
| Edgar Allen Poe |
The Raven |
It's gloomy, and there's a spooky bird who keeps
saying Nevermore, Nevermore. How many poems have talking animals? |
|
| ? |
Pied Piper of Hamlin |
It has rats and a strange figure with supernatural
powers. The moral is: Pay as you promise and on time. |
|
| John Hodgen |
Upon Being Called Mature and Together, on Respectfully
and Summarily Rejecting Both Descriptors, and on Suddenly Remembering the
Best Night of my Life |
Dawn Thistle |
I wish I had such a vivid, beautiful, spiritual
memory of my own family, all together for one short moment in one special
place. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Kubla Khan |
Elisabeth Howe |
Of its imaginative use of language and experimentation
with different rhythms. |
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