Tag Archives: Online Writing

“My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close” Emily Dickinson

Hey Literary World! So first off, I just want to say how amazing the library is. Not only is it a place to escape from the world for a bit, and into the many wonderful landscapes of books, but I … Continue reading

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Something Strange (Creative Writing)

This is what it feels like to be awake at 330, in my bed, and in the quiet, and in my head. I think, though I don’t enjoy thinking, but I must because if I stop contemplating my reason for … Continue reading

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“In A Station of the Metro” Ezra Pound

When I first read this poem in school, A few years ago, I didn’t understand. What makes this great writing, and what importance lies with in it’s few words? “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a … Continue reading

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“The Forms of Love” George Oppen

Ok, so I think this poem, “The Forms Of Love” by George Oppen is so oddly beautiful because, in part, of its simplicity. Oppen was part of a literary movement known as the Objectivists, who were influenced greatly by the … Continue reading

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“You Fit Into Me” Margaret Atwood

OK, so this tiny, and amazing little poem is the one that helped me to realize how much power and emotion is hidden within the written language. And we are meant to uncover it! I first read this poem when … Continue reading

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“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” Walt Whitman

When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured … Continue reading

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“Red Wheelbarrow” William Carlos Williams 1923

I’ll never forget taking my first literature class in college. It was literary analysis, and we were learning to not only digest the poetry we were reading, but to view it, and understand it, from the perspective of someone trying … Continue reading

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