Today, a poem that demonstrates dry humour, intertextual awareness and general poking fun at other poets: “The Rose Family” by Robert Frost. The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple’s a rose, And the pear is, and so’s The plum, I suppose. The dear only … More Poem || The Rose Family by Robert Frost
I generally don’t read as much poetry as I would like. However, this weekend I was in a bookstore with my friend Lisette, and she recommended a nice Dutch poet, so I suddenly found myself buying the 400 page-long collected works of Ingmar Heytze. Reading more poetry is one of my continuous new-years resolutions, but … More On Reading Poetry for Leisure || Advice Needed
When I came across this poem it immediately struck me. One of my facebook friends said it is one of his favourite poems and I can see why. It is full of emotion and alluringly vague at the same time. The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within … More Poem || The Sunlight on the Garden by Louis MacNeice
I was introduced to Dorothy Parker in the summer of 2013 by a lovely friend who knew most of the poems by heart. I still remember us sitting on her bed with a cup of tea and passing the ‘penguin complete poems’ back and forth and reading out poems while the evening became increasingly darker. … More Short & Snarky: 5 Dorothy Parker poems to know by heart
(With translation) In my previous student room I had a ‘wall of stuff’ that, among many other things, held the following poem. I didn’t even remember where I got it from or who wrote the poem (maybe it’s a rebellion against student life where I have to reference ALL the things). It popped into my … More Poem || Endlich by Christa Reinig
This week I will try to make you fall in love with a poem about a jar. A plain glass jar. But wait – the jar is magic! I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, … More Poem || Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens
