Poet
Friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and co-author of the Lyrical Ballads. He wrote the poem 'She was a Phantom of Delight'.
William Wordsworth
The title of this poem by Sam Hunt refers to Mary's suffering.
Stabat Mater
"Die, wild country, like the eaglehawk, / dangerous till the last breath's gone"
Australia 1970
"The land's sharp features seemed to be / The Century's corpse outleant"
Metaphor
A poem that is constructed around an opposition, meant to show two different approaches to love.
The Clod and the Pebble
A famous English novelist and short-story writer, born in British India, and author of Kim, The Jungle Book and the poem The Sea and the Hills.
Rudyard Kipling
This poem reflects on the isolation and loss of identity that come with the constraints of motherhood.
In the Park
"You must sit down, says Love, and taste my meat"
Love (III)
Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes
Oxymoron
Matthew Arnold wrote about this unavoidable consequence of living - and he was not very positive about it.
Growing old
This Irish writer is most famous for his novels, Ulysses and Dubliners, but he also wrote poems such as I Hear an Army.
James Joyce
The poem Blessing explores the importance of water and is set in this Indian city.
Mumbai
"The softest moss should dress thy bed / With savage spoils about thee spread"
Winter Song
Name all the sound effects in these lines (4):
"So soft that a mother that's nigh / Her still cradle, may hear her babe sigh"
Sibilance
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Consonance
The Stars Go Over the Lonely Mountain refers to this place in El Hierro.
Mal Paso Mountain (Pico de Malpaso)
He is the author of The Description of Spring.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
This poem reflects the emotional restraint that was expected of women in Victorian times.
Renouncement
the ambitious mother across the road
is at it again
an afternoon nap
"Who will not alter, who will not grow"
Parallellism
The Buck in the Snow is an example of this literary movement, with its clarity and concision in language and image.
Imagism
Born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and educated in the UK, this writer explores the two worlds with which he is familiar and the history of his mother country in A Long Journey.
Musaemura Zimunya
Surplus Value reflects on the complex history and the rise and fall of the car industry in this city.
Detroit
Can we not help her? Oh, no!
The Hour is Come
but in the cooler shade,
Amyntas now doth with his Chloris sleep
Allusion
Nancy Fotheringham Cato uses this country's landscape as a background for her metaphorical journey in The Road.
Australia