literally everything is about ghosts and the act of haunting except the act of haunting which is about the fact the your existence has enough significance that traces of you will outlive and outlast your physical presence
help me today a girl i’ve barely spoken to sat next to me in class and told me i look “as white as cheese”
virgin-martyr“I am not well; I am tired with this comfortless estrangement from all that is dear to me.”
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Percy Bysshe Shelley to Mary Shelley
ozymandias is also very much about european imperialism and the orient btw. i did not mention it in my tags but it is
day sixteen of 🌷national poetry month!🌷 which of these “classic” poems by old white guys actually slaps the most
stopping by woods on a snowy evening, frost
the love song of j. alfred prufrock, eliot
the red wheelbarrow, williams
the rime of the ancient mariner, coleridge
the raven, poe
do not go gentle into that good night, thomas
the tyger, blake
invictus, henley
ozymandias, shelley
[insert shakespeare sonnet here]
See Resultsi dearly love all of these but they are not what i reach for first when teaching—i favor contemporary poetry!
[text ID: We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. I remember Anna, our daughter Claire will remember Anna and remember me, then Claire will be gone and there will be those who remember her but not us, and that will be our final dissolution. True, there will be something of us that will remain, a fading photograph, a lock of hair, a few fingerprints, a sprinkling of atoms in the air of the room where we breathed our last, yet none of this will be us, what we are and were, but only the dust of the dead. end ID]