Auden (1907-73), wrote in more traditional forms, such as the sonnet or, indeed, the villanelle: a form where the first and third lines of the poem are repeated at the ends of the subsequent stanzas. ![]() Indeed, many poets of the 1930s, such as the clear leader of the pack, W. Lyric poems weren’t all written in free verse once we arrived in the twentieth century. Who, or what, is the addressee of this miniature masterpiece? even begins and ends her poem with a question. Flint described as an ‘accurate mystery’: clear-cut crystalline imagery whose meaning or significance nevertheless remain shrouded in ambiguity and questions. In this example of a short free-verse lyric poem, H. D., born Hilda Doolittle in the US in 1886, was described as the ‘perfect imagist’, and ‘The Pool’ shows why. This poem earns its place on this list of great lyric poems because of the originality of the image at its centre: that of comparing the ‘ruddy moon’ to a … well, we’ll let you discover that for yourself.Īfter Hulme’s free verse lyrics came the imagists – a group of modernist poets who placed the poetic image at the centre of their poems, often jettisoning everything else. This short poem by arguably the first modern poet in English was written in 1908 it’s a short imagist lyric in free verse about a brief encounter with the autumn (i.e. But Yeats, using his distinctive lyricism, puts it better than this paraphrase can convey. And dreams are delicate and vulnerable – hence ‘Tread softly’. If I were a god, I could take the heavenly sky and make a blanket out of it for you.īut I’m only a poor man, and obviously the idea of making the sky into a blanket is silly and out of the question, so all I have of any worth are my dreams. The gist of this poem, one of Yeats’s most popular short lyric poems, is straightforward: if I were a rich man, I’d give you the world and all its treasures. Yeats, ‘ He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’. And what good is there to say about this short poem? We think it’s a beautiful example of early twentieth-century lyricism:įollow the link above to read this tender lyric poem in full.Ħ. The French title of this poem translates as ‘what good is there to say’. ![]() ![]() ‘A Quoi Bon Dire’ was published in Charlotte Mew’s 1916 volume The Farmer’s Bride. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was a popular poet in her lifetime, and was admired by fellow poets Ezra Pound and Thomas Hardy.
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