The 1920s was a key decade in poetry: modernism really came to the fore, with a number of major poets adopting an increasingly experimental approach to form, rhyme, imagery, and subject matter. Below, we introduce and discuss some of the best and most notable poems from the 1920s. Ezra Pound, […]
‘Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth’: so begins one of the most celebrated poems about flight ever written. Unlike earlier, Romantic poems written about birds in flight, ‘High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy)’ sees man taking to the skies, thanks to the early twentieth-century invention of the aeroplane. […]
Poets have written well about innocence, but the flipside to the Romantic apotheosis of childlike innocence is the more grounded acceptance of human experience, and the values of living, struggling, and facing life’s challenges. So below, we’ve gathered together some of the finest poems about experience of various kinds. William […]