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Poetry Reviews & Summaries

Crush: Extreme Love, Extreme Pain

Author: Richard Siken   Review: RebekahRyan
Extreme Love, Extreme Pain: Richard Siken’s award-winning poetry collection "Crush" mesmerizes and compels.
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Published: Saturday, June 15, 2013 Visits: 3 words : 900

Writing that creeps

Author: chil emerson david   Review: roccobarroco
chil david emerson a sr. that promises.
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Published: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 Visits: 10 words : 600

To Amerope and Other Poems: A Writing on the Wall

Review: Absalom
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Published: Sunday, March 10, 2013 Visits: 25 words : 300

Gypsy Ballads

Author: Federico García Lorca   Review: ddaluz
Federico García Lorca''s poetic work "Gypsy Ballads" was published in 1928. The work is composed of eighteen romances with the themes of death, night,.
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Published: Saturday, March 02, 2013 Visits: 41 words : 300

Journey Around a Poetic World in an Indecipherable Eternity

ddaluz at work(s).
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Published: Sunday, February 24, 2013 Visits: 44 words : 300

Decoded

A review on the book" Decoded" from Sean "Jay-Z" Carter.
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Published: Sunday, February 10, 2013 Visits: 129 words : 300

Call Me a Trader Im Just Collecting Your Victims

poet.rythem what else do you really need based on something known as lament child.
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Published: Thursday, January 31, 2013 Visits: 48 words : 900

Renault Can Clip

Review: WenlongChen
We're pleased with our heritage.
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Published: Friday, January 25, 2013 Visits: 49 words : 600

Limerick, Sonnet, Haiku

(1 Ratings)
Author: Sinta Devi   Review: SintaSilovea
This is the explanation of limerick, sonnet, and haiku.
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Published: Friday, January 25, 2013 Visits: 68 words : 600

Barter

(4 Ratings)
Author: Sara Teasdale   Review: nharatna
Barter is a poem written by Sara Teasdale. The poem contains many metaphors, imagery, and personification that make this poem sounds beautiful.
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Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 Visits: 306 words : 900
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A Roadside Stand

(52 Ratings)
Author: Robert Frost   Review: Prithz9
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Published: Friday, January 22, 2010 Visits: 3451 words : 600

Review on “the Scholar Gipsy” by Mathew Arnold

(40 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"-Mathew Arnold.
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Published: Friday, October 08, 2010 Visits: 3417 words : 900

Review on “Satan’S Speech” by John Milton

(21 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ is acknowledged as one of the greatest epics of all times.
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Published: Friday, September 24, 2010 Visits: 3346 words : 600

The end and the beginning

(16 Ratings)
Author: Wislawa Szymborska   Review: rahuls
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Published: Sunday, October 23, 2005 Visits: 3291 words : 600

Ode on the Poets

(73 Ratings)
Author: John Keats   Review: adc1057
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Published: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 Visits: 3284 words : 600

Summary of Mathew Arnold's-'the Forsaken Merman'

(39 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
Mathew Arnold’s (1822-1888) poetry is noted for the spirit of melancholy and unrest. He was also a fine social and literary critic.
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Published: Monday, June 21, 2010 Visits: 3256 words : 600

A Brave and Startling Truth

(15 Ratings)
Author: Maya Angelou   Review: The Bat Cave
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Published: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Visits: 3235 words : 300

Summary of Willaim Words Wordsworth's-'My Heart Leaps up When I Behold

(36 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
Willaim Wordsworth (1770-1850) spent most of his life in the Lake District of North-Wesy England, and drew his poetic inspiration from here.
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Published: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 Visits: 3172 words : 300

Review on “the Last Ride Together” by Robert Browning

(28 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
Robert Browning was more philosophical and humanistic in his poetic attitude rather than artistic.
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Published: Friday, October 08, 2010 Visits: 3159 words : 900

Summary on a.K. Ramanujan's-'the Striders'

(27 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
Water Striders are six-legged insects that float and glide across the surface of the water.
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Published: Monday, June 21, 2010 Visits: 3095 words : 300
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Review on “the Ideals of Satire” by Alexander Pope

(10 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
Whatever the subject-Philosophy, Religion or Satire- Alexander Pope wrote in a language that was chaste and flawless.
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Published: Friday, September 24, 2010 Visits: 249 words : 600

Abstract of “Solitude” by Lord Byron

(10 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."- Lord Byron.
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Published: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Visits: 194 words : 600

Review on “in No Strange Land” by Francis Thompson

(10 Ratings)
Author: Andy Kester Sawian   Review: akso6o175
Francis Thompson belonged to the Victorian era but had much in common with the seventeenth century metaphysical poets.
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Published: Thursday, October 21, 2010 Visits: 170 words : 300
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