Below are five more poems I admire. Read the poems by clicking the hyperlinks.
"So This Is Nebraska" by Ted Kooser A fun, "stately" ode with great pastoral images and examples of personification. Dick Cavett reads Kooser's poem here. "On the Death of a Colleague" by Stephen Dunn A shocking elegy about a group of teachers and students mourning the death of an alcoholic drama teacher. Also a heartfelt narrative poem. "Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer" by Chris Forhan A relatable poem about coping with loss. The poem employs many visceral images conveying movement, just as the poem's enjambment and tercets help to "move," or quicken, the work's narrative arc. "The Summer I Was Sixteen" by Geraldine Connolly A brilliantly overstated coming-of-age depiction of girlhood glee. The work incorporates many vivid images and several literary devices such as tricolon and assonance. The final image is haunting, conveying a naive sixteen-year-old girl "tossing a glance / through the chain link at an improbable world" (the world beyond serving as a metaphor for adulthood). "The Meadow Mouse" by Theodore Roethke A gripping poem about a pet mouse. The poem employs literary ambivalence to illustrate joyful and lachrymose curiosity. The last two lines of the poem--especially the penultimate line--still exhilarate me.
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