Creative Writings

Christina Rossetti was a nineteenth-century English poet of Italian origin. Rossetti’s poem “When I am Dead, My Dearest” is elsewhere published under the title “Song.” This poem is not just about death but also about life, especially the happenings after the death of a close one. In the respective sections below, we have placed the …

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Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1917, Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. Brooks had a passion for reading and writing from early childhood and, fortunately, her parents were supportive of her. She started publishing her poems in magazines from early teenage and several of her poetry books were published …

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Many critics have said Robert Lowell’s poem To Speak of Woe That is in Marriage is confessional which is agreeable. However, it is merely the speaker’s confession, not the poet’s, for he is a man while the poems’ speaker is a married woman. Nevertheless, Lowell might have written from the perspective of one of his three wives …

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Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), who belonged to the Puritan Period (1620-1660), was arguably the first-ever woman whose poetry was widely published. It is so interesting to hear that Bradstreet was born in the Age of Elizabeth while she passed away in the Restoration Period. Moreover, she is also one of the most accomplished contemporaries of John …

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Robert Hayden was an American poet who was born on 4 August 1913 in Detroit, Michigan, USA and who died on 25 February 1980 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Hayden was the first African-American writer ever to serve at the Library of Congress as a Consultant in Poetry. Apart from poetry, he is also known for his essays. Hayden’s collections …

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Belonging to the late 16th and the early 17th centuries, Thomas Campion was not just a composer but also poet and physician. Campion’s There is a Garden in Her Face can be taken as both poem and song. In this poem, he describes a lady who is most probably the apple of his eyes. Let’s take a …

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William Wordsworth gave arguably the best definition of poetry i.e. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” Most popular for his publication of Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth had a huge contribution to the rise of Romanticism in literature. William Wordsworth’s popular poems include I Wandered …

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