What is the Purpose of Poetry?

Does poetry have a purpose? If so, then what? I noticed today that by far the majority of WordPresss bloggers … More

Crossing the Bar – Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

I HAVE desired to go
Where springs not fail,

For Eleanor.

This anti war poem, written by American poet EE Cummings and published in 1926, is such a perfect specimen of the genre.

Sometimes sad and sometimes not, our stories and our poems, our Green Ladies and our Belles Dames are reflections of our desires and anxieties.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A reading.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

A Reading

A reading of “If….” which I made for my YouTube channel.

I have already written a few words about Ode to Autumn but felt minded to record my own reading of it.

Kipling’s poem “If” is profound and moving.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings