In Memory of W. B. Yeats, by W.H. Auden is a modern poem in its imagery, concept and versification. The poem, as its title indicates, is an elegy written to mourn the death of W.B. Yeats, but it is different from the conventional elegy. Traditionally, in an elegy, all nature is represented as mourning the death, here nature is represented as going on its course indifferent and unaffected.
This fine lyrical poem, Musee des Beaux Arts, is one of Auden's most celebrated short poems. It was first published in 1939, though written by Auden during his winter sojourn in Brussels in 1938. Auden begins the lyric by praising the painters of old, like Brueghel, who understood the nature of suffering and humanity’s indifference to it. This fact is well-illustrated by a number of paintings of the famous painter of Flanders.
In this poem Traveling Through the Dark the poet William Stafford describes how he was moved by the death of a pregnant doe when he was driving a car along the mountain road at night. At the side of a Wilson River road he saw a deer.
April Inventory is a confessional poem by William DeWitt Snodgrass in which the poet has revealed how he has made a list (inventory) of things he has missed, throughout his youth (April/Spring), but how he is still attracted to those things even now when he is an old professor with fallen teeth and skinny body. One of the things he is secretly interested in is the pink and plump young girls, his students!
This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams is a unique modern poem which shows that poetry can be about anything and everything. Moreover, it shows how really poetic simple and ordinary experiences can be. The poem takes as its subject a very ordinary event of daily and family life: the speaker confesses to his mother, or may be his wife, that he couldn't help eating plums kept in the kitchen.
One of the most famous poems in the twentieth century American poetry 'The Red Wheelbarrow' is an Imagist poem. 'The Red Wheel barrow' is a poem of the Imagist movement. Imagism was a movement in early twentieth century poetry that emphasized concise language and fresh imagery over abstract ideas. The poem can be taken to illustrate many of the features of modern American poetry.
This great paean of love is one of the most popular poems of Rupert Brooke. It celebrates that love which was the burden of his song.
The Fish is a delightful descriptive piece of poem by Rupert Brooke. Poets have often projected themselves sympathetically into the minds of birds and beasts.
The View from the Window by Ronald Stuart Thomas is an imagist poem of a kind in which the speaker, who is observing the natural scenery outside of his window compares it with paintings that human artists have or can make.
The poem 'Robin Redbreast' is a quietly ironic poem in which the speaker, an inmate of the same house as a 'helpless' bird, realizes the necessity and importance of freedom after he has been overthrown from his rented house and when he sees the bird shot down. The fate of the man is concealed, but the parallelism with that of the bird reveals it to the reader.