World Poetry Month: Day Thirty Today’s poetry is ‘Still Life’ a poem by A. K. Ramanujan. A sophisticated and beautiful aura surrounds the poem. Still Life by A.K. Ramanujan explores the absence of a woman in the poet’s life. Absence seems to have a beauty of its own. The poet is repeatedly reminded of the…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty-Nine Today’s poetry is ‘Wolf’ a poem by Keki Daruwalla. Keki N. Daruwalla’s poem “The Wolf” explores how the natural environment can have a profound effect on the mind. “Wolf” portrays the protagonist’s nightmares and fantasies as he is being pursued by wolves at night by men when he is a…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty-Eight Today’s poetry is ‘Hunger’ a poem by Jayanta Mahapatra. A poem entitled Hunger describes an experience the speaker had with a fisherman and his daughter. This poem is very heartwarming. Hunger is conveyed in two senses in this poem. In the first instance, it refers to a persistent hunger caused…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty Seven Today’s poetry is ‘Summer In Calcutta’ a poem by Kamala Das. As a recapitulation of the past, the poem is nothing more than an experience removed from reality. Due to the conditions of delirium, it conveys only a vague sense of oneness and fragmentation caused by a state of…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty Six Today’s poetry is ‘On Killing A Tree’ a poem by Gieve Patel. We forget this simple principle: “Earth is all that we have in common”. We are unknowingly and knowingly preparing for the funeral of our own planet. Even though it may seem simple, killing a tree on a…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty Five Today’s poetry is ‘The Garden of Love, ’ a poem by William Blake. Despite being devoutly religious, Blake had some major disagreements with organized religion at the time. According to the poem, religion should be about love, freedom, and joy, not rules and restrictions. He published the poem in…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty Four Today’s poetry is ‘If You Forget Me’ a poem by Pablo Neruda. The subject of “If you forget me” is unclear, but Neruda emphasizes the importance of reciprocity in his romance. Analysts say the poet is referring to Chile – as the poem was written during Neruda’s exile during…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty Two Today’s poetry is ‘The Second Coming’ a poem by William Butler Yeats. The poem looks at the chaos in the world and predicts a new era of peace. A golden age of poetry was ushered in by William Butler Yeats during the 20th century. Throughout the 17th and 18th…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty Today’s poetry is ‘Presence of Love’ a poem by John Keats. Although John Keats died of tuberculosis at a tragically young age of 25, he left behind a substantial body of work and made a lasting impact on English literature. His friend Joseph Severn painted a portrait of him in…
World Poetry Month: Day Twenty-One Today’s poetry is ‘Caged Birds’ a poem by Maya Angelou. Marguerite Johnson was born Maya Angelou in St. Louis, Missouri, and is an American poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer. Angelou had a long and varied career as a singer, dancer, actress, director, writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. Besides serving…
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