In this section of the blog, I analyze famous poems (form, rhyme scheme, meter, what I think the message happens to be, etc.) Well, I usually do. I probably phoned it in on a few of these.
If anyone ever comes here for help on a school assignment, I hope you get the not-too-suspicious “B-” that you deserve.
Bacon, Francis
+ Help Lord
Blake, William
+ A Divine Image
+ A Poison Tree
Brooks, Gwendolyn
+ We Real Cool
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
+ Sonnet 43
Carroll, Lewis
+ Jabberwocky
Chesterton, G.K.
+ Elegy In a Country Churchyard
+ The Donkey
Crane, Stephen
+ Behold, the grave of a wicked man
+ In The Desert
Cummings, E.E.
+ l(a
Dickinson, Emily
+ “Hope” is the thing with feathers
+ I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
+ I had no time to Hate —
+ My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close
+ Tell all the truth but tell it slant—
Donne, John
+ Holy Sonnet 10: Death, be not proud
+ No Man is an Island
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
+ We Wear the Mask
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
+ Concord Hymn
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
+ The Staying Up All Night
Frost, Robert
+ Desert Places
+ Dust of Snow
+ Fire and Ice
+ Nothing Gold Can Stay
+ Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
+ The Road Not Taken
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
+ Erlkönig
Hayden, Robert
+ Those Winter Sundays
Hemingway, Ernest
+ All Armies Are The Same
+ Ultimately
Henley, William Ernest
+ Invictus
Hood, Thomas
+ Silence
Hughes, Langston
+ Dreams
+ Island
+ I, Too
+ Quiet Girl
+ So Tired Blues
+ Still Here
Keats, John
+ Bright Star
Kipling, Rudyard
+ IF—
Lewis, C.S.
+ After Prayers, Lie Cold
+ The Country of the Blind
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
+ The Arrow and the Song
+ The Rainy Day
Matsuo Bashō
+ The Old Pond
McCrae, John
+ In Flanders Fields
Mercer, Leigh
+ A Dozen, a Gross, and a Score
Milton, John
+ When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Nash, Ogden
+ A Caution To Everybody
+ A Word to Husbands
+ Old Men
+ The Duck
+ The Firefly
Natsume Sōseki
+ Over the Wintry
Poe, Edgar Allen
+ A Dream Within A Dream
+ TO —
Rosetti, Christina
+ A Dirge
+ In the Bleak Midwinter
+ Remember
+ The Rainbow
+ Up-Hill
+ What Are Heavy?
+ Who Has Seen the Wind?
Sandburg, Carl
+ Fog
Shakespeare, William
+ Sonnet 3
+ Sonnet 18
+ Sonnet 27
+ Sonnet 116
+ Sonnet 130
Shakur, Tupac
+ The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
+ Ozymandias
Silverstein, Shel
+ Friendship
+ Put Something In
+ Snowball
Stevens, Wallace
+ The Plot Against the Giant
+ The Snow Man
Stevenson, Robert Louis
+ Autumn Fires
+ The Land of Nod
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
+ Crossing the Bar
+ The Charge of the Light Brigade
+ The Eagle
Thomas, Dylan
+ Do not go gentle into that good night
Tolkien, J.R.R.
+ All Woods Must Fail
+ Song of Aragorn
+ The Road Goes Ever On
Twain, Mark
+ Warm Summer Sun
Unknown
+ Roses are Red
Whitman, Walt
+ A Noiseless Patient Spider
+ I Dream’d A Dream
Whittier, John Greenleaf
+ An Easter Flower Gift
+ Ichabod!
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
+ Solitude
Wordsworth, William
+ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
+ The World Is Too Much With Us
Yeats, William Butler
+ A Poet To His Beloved