Kissed By Poetry: Recent Episodes
Sneha Sharma
We share with you some of our favorite poems of all time. Kissed by poetry is an online art and poetry anthology, You can drop a recital request at our Instagram page Kissed by poetry.
A beautiful nature poem that focuses on the actions of a bird going about its everyday life.
This anonymous poem was published in The Golden Book of Poetry 1947, and we are always reading the famous, the greats, so why not read and celebrate today This writer, This Anonymous Mystery..
This experimental, abstract and irregular poem by E.E Cummings is undoubtedly a love poem, but a love poem for whom, about what kind of love that is a mystery. The small i in the title evokes not just the radical reimagining of Grammar but truly justifies the unapologetic unconventional style of the poet.
The poem was written at the height of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetic powers, in the last year of his short life. Published posthumously in 1824, “When the Lamp Is Shattered” is a delicate, melancholic poem expressing the loss of ecstatic poetic creativity in response to the loss of a beloved woman’s affections. Whether the inspiration was Jane Williams or not is a matter of conjecture.
By (George Gordon) Lord Byron, published in 1830 written more as a lament to his growing up.
The meanings strewn throughout So We’ll Go No More A-Roving may resonate slightly different in the modern day than it did in Byron’s, but it remains a powerful and sad commentary on something that many will experience regardless.
Published in 1914, A Tear and A Smile is a philosophical lesson about human life; being bound by matter and being free by spirit. Life being an amalgamation of joys and sorrows, a poem both happy and somber in nature.