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''This Moment''. The first half of the poem is still and hushed but once the child runs into its mother's arms, there is movement and life: ''Stars rise. Moths flutter. Apples sweeten in the dark.'' Although there is movement now, the poem maintains its gentle, warm, reflective tone.
‘This Moment’ by Eavan Boland is a short poem that captures a snapshot of dusk in a neighbourhood positioned exactly between day and night. The poem begins with the speaker giving the reader a few simple comments about the setting. These provide the backbone to ‘This Moment’.
The Bleat, the Bark, Bellow & Roar Are Waves that Beat on Heaven's Shore. The Babe that weeps the Rod beneath Writes Revenge in realms of death. The Beggar's Rags, fluttering in Air, Does to Rags the Heavens tear. The Soldier arm'd with Sword & Gun, Palsied strikes the Summer's Sun.
In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the key questions about language, technique, feeling, and subject matter which illuminate what a poem has to say.
introduction takes readers through modernism’s most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world.
From William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and Maya Angelou, the poems on this list have become some of the most popular English-language poems ever written. Many of these tap into familiar themes , such as love, loss, death, and the power of natural landscapes.
The Roman numerals lend the sense of a time immemorial to the last moments of existence in history before this war, when, in anticipation of the British declaration of hostilities at eleven o’clock on the evening of 4 August 1914, a photograph from a newspaper of that day shows:
