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The Wife’s Lament is an Anglo Saxon poem from the Exeter Book. There are numerous articles on the poem and scholarly analyses—including the linked Wikipedia article—so I won’t go into it; but the poem has a fascinating history.. My own version is not a translation but is based on the original. There are a variety […]
Robert Frost’s Directive is, in my opinion, his last great poem, and is found in Steeple Bush, his second to last book. No two books of Frost are more New England than Steeple Bush or In the Clearing. They beautifully capture that northeast “old timer” who turns a lifetime’s rich mine of wisdom into cynical, […]
So I’m back to reading Dickinson and reading Sewall’s biography. Maybe because it’s autumn? Or maybe it’s because Dickinson’s poems are all like riddles? I love sorting out what a poem means, so long as it’s not deliberately obscure or obfuscates. Dickinson is great that way. I don’t get the sense that she thought of […]
May gossamer meadows be your pillowAnd sing to you the weeping willow. Lay down your head and close your eyes And I will sing you lullabies.Sleep take you where the angels billow.Your dreams be light as thistledownAnd woven stars bedeck your gown. Lay down your head and close your eyes And I will sing you […]
A correspondent asked me to discuss the following three stanzas from TS Eliot’s “Little Gidding” (from Part 2 of the fourth part of the Four Quartets). First think I should say, is that the best online criticism of TS Eliot’s poetry, in every sense, is by Nasrullah Mambrol at Literary Theory and Criticism. This is […]
