Links to some of the Posts on this site containing poetry analysis –
(to be updated)
One Today – Richard Blanco – Commentary
Varadero en Alba – Richard Blanco – Commentary
I ask you – Billy Collins
The History Teacher – Billy Collins
Marginalia – Billy Collins
The Wattle Tree – Judith Wright
Eli, Eli – Judith Wright
Summer – Judith Wright
The Trains – Judith Wright
Rugby – A Mysterious Lass : Matt Laffan
Mad Girl’s Love Song – Sylvia Plath
Words – Sylvia Plath
Sonnet: To Time – Sylvia Plath
Black Rook in Rainy Weather – Sylvia Plath
You’re – Sylvia Plath
Morning Song – Sylvia Plath
Poppies in October – Sylvia Plath
Cut – Sylvia Plath
Crossing the Water – Sylvia Plath
Metaphors – Sylvia Plath
Blue Moles – Sylvia Plath
Do not go gentle into that goodnight – Dylan Thomas
Light Breaks Where No Light Shines – Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill – Dylan Thomas
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – T. S. Eliot
A Dedication to My Wife – T. S. Eliot
Important lines from ‘Paradise Lost’ – Milton
Cherry-ripe – Thomas Campion
Delight in Disorder – Robert Herrick
To Keep a True Lent – Robert Herrick
Sonnet #37 – William Shakespeare
Contrast – Emily Dickinson
Nativity – James McAuley
Seeking Perfection – St John of the Cross
No Coward Soul is Mine – Emily Bronte
Arab Love Song – Francis Thompson
The Broad Bean Sermon – Les Murray
Musee De Beaux Arts – W. H. Auden
If I could tell you – W. H. Auden
Of Language – Mary Gilmore
The Guttural Muse – Seamus Heaney
The Walk – Thomas Hardy
A Fixed Idea – Amy Lowell
When I Am In Doubt – Glenn Colquhoun
Love’s Philosophy – P. B. Shelley
P. B. Shelley – philosophy in his poetry
Scribbly Gum – Douglas Stewart
Winter – Shakespeare
Inversnaid – Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hospital for Defectives – Thomas Blackburn
London Rain – Louis MacNeice
New Fruit – Ann Drysdale
The Silken Tent – Robert Frost
Bimbo – Bruce Dawe
The Listeners Walter De la Mare
Jabberwocky – Lewis Carroll
The Uncertainty of the Poet – Wendy Cope
The Whitsun Weddings – Philip Larkin
I remember, I remember – Philip Larkin
The Poet – George MacKay Brown
Passengers are reminded – Melinda Smith
Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold
Summer Sketches: Sydney – Vivian Smith
Love and Complacency – Geoffrey Dutton
May – John Shaw Nielson
Terra Australis – James McCauley
Beach Burial – Kenneth Slessor
The Clod and the Pebble – William Blake
Executive – John Betjeman
The Moor – R. S. Thomas
Cats – Arthur Tessimond
Journey to the interior – Margaret Atwood
And Am to Pambula Come – Michael Farrell
Il Pleure Dans Mon Coeur – Paul Verlaine
The Second Coming – W. B. Yeats
Let us drink and be merry – Thomas Jordan
In the Bleak Mid-winter – Christina Rossetti
The Immortal Part – A. E. Housman
Piazza Piece – John Crowe Ransom
Ode on the Poets – John Keats
The Human Seasons – John Keats
The Road Through the Woods – Rudyard Kipling
Richard – Carol Ann Duffy
‘Yes’ – Brian Patten
Of the terrible doubt of appearances – Walt Whitman
The Ash-Plant – Seamus Heaney
Bowled Over – Ted Hughes
The Conclusion of Joseph Turrill – Andrew Motion
Love After Love – Derek Walcott
The Snow Village – Glyn Maxwell
Walking Away – Cecil Day-Lewis
Adlestrop – Edward Thomas
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