Previously, we’ve offered some of the best very short poems by American poets, and in this post we turn our thoughts to poems about America, which we feel are especially appropriate for the Fourth of July. Here are some of the most fervently patriotic poems about the United States for […]
‘Death is potential to that Man’ is one of many poems Emily Dickinson wrote about death – or Death, for the Grim Reaper lurks behind Dickinson’s trademark capitalisations. Here is ‘Death is potential to that Man’ along with some words of analysis. Death is potential to that Man Who dies […]
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was not just a poet, of course: she was an influential civil rights campaigner in the United States, and her autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, is a classic of the genre. But several of her poems are well-known, and she was popular as a […]