The Ageing Dante holding a copy of The Divine Comedy Sentiments in the poem are of loss, love and melancholy related to growing old. Eliot was reading Dante Alighieri's main [...]
Eliot’s poem, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and especially the second and third lines, are said to herald in modernism in poetry. His is an excellent example of [...]
The Preface by Ian: Aged over seventy and I fell in love, unexpected to say the least. I will never forget the date; 31st October 2014, Halloween! Is that prophetic? [...]
About Rumi Born June 03, 1207in بلخ / Balkh, Afghanistan Died August 20, 1273 From Wikipedia: Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: مولانا جلال الدین محمد رومی), also known as Mawlānā [...]
This beautiful poem fell upon my desk one morning out of the world wide web : I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and [...]
One of the advantages of living where I do in Sydney is that there is water all around me. I've always lived near the beaches of the eastern suburbs, Coogee, [...]
I am not an expert on writing haiku, but I am fascinated by this form of poetry. What I like about it is the discipline it requires. You must write, [...]
