Recommend me an interesting British poet who’s poems are not a mystery, but no too simple either – research
Gotta find a British poet. The sheet I have here does not specify during what time period the poet had to have lived in, but I have a feeling I am supposed to research somebody at least a little historical.
I have to do an outline of the poet, with the standard info, as well as explanations of “what was going on in the world at the time the work was produced.”
Then I must annotate “at least” 2 poems written by this poet. I don’t really know the teacher, so it’s a mystery what exactly that means. Anyways, I want to have poems to work with that I can understand to some extent without having to look around on google trying to find peoples’ interpretations of it. I’m no expert poem reader. Hopefully the way I wrote this question shows you that I’m not an idiot either.
I probably wrote way too much, but please read and try to help me out. I will give you a cyber kiss.
Favorite Answer
-T.S. Eliot
Elizabeth Barrett Browning & William (?) Browning; I think their poems are OK
TS Eliot–he’s more modern, but has some good ones
ee cummings– you can check if he’s British or American (I forgot) but his poems are cool
WILFRED OWEN
Dulce et Decorum Est
– best known poem of the First World War
(with explanatory notes)
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owena.htm
http://users.fulladsl.be/spb1667/cultural/owen.html
http://www.freeessays.cc/db/37/pya151.shtml
They are arguably the greatest war poets. I hope you enjoy learning about their lives and works. Check out the links.
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/minds_p2.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/fallen_twp.htm
http://www.illyria.com/poetry.html
Good luck
His poetry was written in the context of the Irish ‘troubles’, which gives you a nifty historical context to write about too, especially his ‘Bog People’ and ‘Fieldwork’ poems (‘Casualty’ is wonderful stuff).
Heaney won the Nobel prize a few years back.
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