Weekly+Poetry

**Weekly Poem #3 [Due Wed 02-17]**
Pablo Neruda won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1971. [|Click here for a bio from the Nobel site.]

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**Weely Poem #1 [Due Wed 01-27]**

Here's a link to Leaves of Grass[1855], my favorite edition, at Bartleby.com: Leaves of Grass And here's a link to some Whitman biographical information. Whitman Bio Take some time to read the poem about Whitman tending wounded Civil War soldiers--it's pretty sad--and graphic. Whitman's blatant realism also troubled some readers of his day who preferred their poems with lovely metaphors and similes not images of bloody stumps where human limbs used to be.



Coming soon! My Poetry Explication Handout. It must be on my Dell at home.

**Weekly Poem #2 [Due Wed 02-03] [[image:PLarkin.png width="132" height="187" caption="Philip Larkin from the New York Times"]]**


Here's a link to Philip Larkin on Poets.org Poets.org