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Marianne Moore. Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for its formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. She was nominated for the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Erik Lindegren.
The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas, and the third line of the first stanza serves as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas.
First published in 1940, the poem details the lives of residents in a nameless town. [1] Like much of Cummings's work, the poem is actually untitled, so critics use the first line to refer to the poem. Cummings often wrote in a manner that did not follow standard English syntax and punctuation. This style is evident in the poem's first line ...
Barbie Doll (poem) " Barbie Doll " is a narrative poem written by American writer, novelist, and social activist Marge Piercy. It was published in 1971, during the time of second-wave feminism. It is often noted for its message of how a patriarchal society puts expectations and pressures on women, partly through gender role stereotyping.
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii. Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world. The poem is nine verses long, breaking off in the middle of the ...
The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet. The title of the poem and the first two lines reference the Greek Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a famously gigantic sculpture that stood beside or straddled the entrance to the harbor of the island of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC. In the poem, Lazarus contrasts that ancient ...
The Emulation, Sarah Fyge (1719) The Woman's Labour, Mary Collier (1739) [18] Letters From A Peruvian Woman, Françoise de Graffigny (1747) The Female Quixote, Charlotte Lennox (1756) An Essay on Woman in Three Epistles, Mary Leapor (1763) Je ne sçai quoi: or, A collection of letters, odes, &c., Never before published.
Feminist poetry is inspired by, promotes, or elaborates on feminist principles and ideas. [1] It might be written with the conscious aim of expressing feminist principles, although sometimes it is identified as feminist by critics in a later era. [1] Some writers are thought to express feminist ideas even if the writer was not an active member ...