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No matter their age, some celebrities have old souls; poems written by celebrity poets and your favorite celebrities' favorite poems.
Greatness Realized
When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?* I will be the first to admit that I am not easily inspired nor am I the most optimistic person, especially not after the year 2020 which both aged my spirit and drained me of whatever weak ability to ‘look on the bright side' I possessed. After the dramatic and deathly mismanagement of the country during the past presidency coupled with the terrifying insurrection event on January 6th, my nerves were raw and sore on January 20th when I sat down to watch the Inauguration event.
By Lady Coy Haddock5 years ago in Poets
"Poet of Sindh Shaikh Ayaz"
Sheikh Ayaaz was born in Shikarpur, Sindh. He introduced several modern trends in Sindhi and Urdu literature. He wrote more than 50 books on poetry, besides penning biographies, articles and short stories in both Sindhi and Urdu. He also translated ‘Shah Jo Risalo’, a famous Sindhi text, into Urdu. Owing to its high aesthetic value, his poetry has been translated into several major languages of the world including English, Urdu, Sindh, French, Chinese, Russian and others. He was rewarded with Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his literary services.
By Iftikhar Ahmed5 years ago in Poets
"Why I like Shakespeare"
Shakespeare is relevant to my life in many different ways. He gives me pleasure while I read any of his novels, especially when they are talking about Love. Love has a big part in Shakespeare's writings. It is the most important thing in the world. It brings happiness and peace. Shakespeare presented many different types of love with its dilemmas, problems as in my day.
By Iftikhar Ahmed5 years ago in Poets
Book Review: "Selected Poems and Prose" by Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas is one of the great poets and diarists of the modern age. I had only recently read an entire book of his selected works after having read bits and pieces of poetry here and there and practically none of this wonderful prose in my life. I have honestly been awakened to a new kind of diarist, a new type of person who appreciates something that the realist and modernist tradition had almost lost thanks to its impractical revolt against romanticism. Edward Thomas not only remains in a space between the romantics of nature and the realists of the modern world, but he also supplies the reader with an almost psychological sense of style with his elongated metaphors, his cyclic realities and his massive descriptions on minute detail. Like a piece of art, each word is a stroke of the brush that applied, makes the work one thing, or another thing entirely. The work I have witnessed within these selected works by Edward Thomas are not just great, but not for a very long time have I been so overwhelmed by descriptions, language use or emotion. His prose style is the beauty of his changing times whilst his poetry retains the classical notions whilst pushing towards complex emotions and sufferings such as melancholia and insomnia. Let it just be said that Edward Thomas holds the line that keeps the romanticist in us alive.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Poets
Stephen Crane — The Poet and the Writer
Born November 1st, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, Stephen Crane is an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer who is popularly known for famous novels such as Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), The Red Badge of Courage (1895), and many more. Stephen’s father Jonathan Crane, a minister died in 1880, leaving Stephen, the youngest of his children to be raised by their strong-minded mother.
By Christopher Harvey5 years ago in Poets
Book Review: "Selected Poems" by Federico Garcia Lorca
When I first read Federico Garcia Lorca, I was only about sixteen and I cannot remember exactly what I was reading because it was not a book. It was on a sheet of paper and it was one of his poems. The only thing I did remember [because I wrote it in my journal] was that it was 'revolutionary' in language [is how I put it]. Through reading a book filled the selected best poems of Lorca, I have come to re-establish what that means. I wrote it to mean that the images that I was reading of Lorca and relating it to the context of the Spanish Civil War in which he had been active in, this would have been a revolutionary act and may have been one of the reasons that ultimately and unfortunately, he was killed. The intense liberation of human emotion in the poems may have been one of the reasons why the Spanish Army were not too fond of Lorca's writings and why Lorca, in the many years after the Civil War, became an icon for freedom, revolution and basically one of the heroes of Spain.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Poets
