Yeats, ‘ He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’. Oh that we could all be so precocious! It’s a tender poem which admonishes the loved ones we leave behind not to grieve too heavily for us when we die… Wilfred Owen, ‘ Anthem for Doomed Youth’.Ī classic war poem, and shorter than Owen’s other most famous poem about the First World War (‘Dulce et Decorum Est’), this sonnet concentrates Owen’s sense of anger and pity into 14 powerful lines.Īnother Victorian sonnet by a popular poet of the era, ‘Remember’ was written when Rossetti was still a teenager. But how many people are aware that the sonnet is immortalising the beauty of a young man? See on the link above to read the poem and learn more about its curious history. With one of the most famous opening lines in all of English poetry, this sonnet is rightly celebrated as a classic, by England’s foremost poet. Many of Whitman’s poems are significantly longer, but this one offers a nice snapshot of both his style and his spirit – a panegyric to ordinary Americans going about an honest day’s work. Whitman (1819-92) was one of the greatest pioneers of a new kind of verse in nineteenth-century American literature, leaving behind traditional verse forms in favour of his more expansive and exuberant free verse. Inspired by the sight of some African-American boys playing pool when they should have been in school, Brooks (pictured right) decided to give them a voice, in this very short, very catchy poem that brings together both the good and the bad aspects of the boys’ lives. Curiously, the title was an in-joke: the sonnets are not translated from the Portuguese language ‘Portuguese’ was Browning’s nickname for his wife…ĭeclared by Bob Dylan to be the biggest single influence on his writing, this song by Scotland’s greatest lyrical son is among his most widely known, with its opening stanza especially quotable. Often misattributed to Shakespeare, this sonnet is from Barrett Browning’s collection Sonnets from the Portuguese, written in the late 1840s about her love for her husband, the poet Robert Browning.
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