Whispers of Immortality
by T.S. Eliot
‘Whispers of Immortality’ by T.S. Eliot describes the connection between death and sex and how ultimately death becomes the most important thing in life.
Who Are You And Whom Do You Love?
by Bhanu Kapil
The poem, Who Are You And Whom Do You Love?, is one of the “Twelve Questions,” that Bhanu Kapil asks
Who Has Seen the Wind?
by Christina Rossetti
‘Who Has Seen the Wind?’ by Christina Rossetti is a poem that utilizes similar wording between the stanzas to embrace a universality of concept.
Whoso List to Hunt
by Sir Thomas Wyatt
‘Whoso List to Hunt’ by Sir Thomas Wyatt uses a hunting metaphor to describe a suitor’s effort to gain the affections of, a woman.
Why Flowers Change Color
by Robert Herrick
‘Why Flowers Change Color’ by Robert Herrick is a short poem that speaks about virginity, virgins, and the reason that flowers change colors. The poem is often interpreted in different ways due to the few details Herrick provides in the four lines.
Wild Oats
by Philip Larkin
‘Wild Oats’ by Philip Larkin depicts the difficulties in a specific relationship he had with two women.
Wild With All Regrets
by Wilfred Owen
‘Wild With All Regrets’ by Wilfred Owen takes place in the last few minutes of a dying soldier as his body shuts down, and he grows immobile.
Wind
by Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes is perhaps one of the most controversial figures in all of the literary world. While some esteem him
Wind On The Hill
by Alan Alexander Milne
‘Wind On The Hill’ by A. A. Milne is an upbeat children’s poem. It follows a thoughtful child who is playing with a toy kite.
Windy Nights
by Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Windy Nights’ by Robert Louis Stevenson is a children’s poem about a nighttime storm. It was first published in 1885 in A Child’s Garden of Verses.
Winter
by Anne Hunter
‘Winter’ by Anne Hunter cleverly personifies winter as a “tyrant” who has complete control over those most in need.
Winter
by Walter de la Mare
‘Winter’ by Walter de la Mare tells of the stark beauty of the winter months and how the constellations look down upon the cold earth.
And the robin flew Into the air, the air, The white mist through; And small and rare
Winter in the Boulevard
by D.H. Lawrence
‘Winter in the Boulevard’ by D.H. Lawrence describes the coming of the winter frost and the perilous position it places all life on the boulevard.
Winter Rain
by Christina Rossetti
‘Winter Rain’ by Christina Rossetti is about the power rain has in the natural world and how without it nothing would be the same. She uses several examples and images to depict the world flourishing after a rainstorm.
Winter-Lull
by D.H. Lawrence
‘Winter-Lull’ by D.H. Lawrence describes a snow covered battlefield and the silence plaguing a group of soldiers during WWI.
Winter-Time
by Robert Louis Stevenson
‘Winter-Time’ by Robert Louis Stevenson depicts the winter season from a child’s perspective. His imagination comes through clearly in his depictions of what all there is to see and experience, negative and positive.
Winter: My Secret
by Christina Rossetti
Winter: My Secret was published in Rossetti’s first collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems. This collection largely consisted of non-devotional
Wintering
by Carol Ann Duffy
The poem ‘Wintering‘ by Carol Ann Dufy talks about a relationship that the narrator has experienced and that relationship is
All day, slow funerals have ploughed the rain.
We’ve done again
that trick we have of turning love to pain.
With rue my heart is laden
by A. E. Housman
‘With rue my heart is laden’ by A.E. Housman is a short and simple poem in which a speaker looks back on what they’ve lost from their youth.
Without That Once Clear Aim (XXI)
by Stephen Spender
‘XXI Without That Once Clear Aim’ brilliantly explores the uneasy relationship between an artist and their environment.
Wodwo
by Ted Hughes
‘Wodwo’ by Ted Hughes is a dramatic monologue that depicts a “Wodwo” or fictional human-like creature. The creature investigates his surroundings and repetitively questions his existence.
Woman’s Constancy
by John Donne
‘Woman’s Constancy’ by John Donne contains a speaker’s doubts that his lover of one night will remain true to him in the morning.
Now thou has loved me one whole day,
Tomorrow when you leav’st, what wilt thou say?
Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow?
Or say that now
Women and Roses
by Robert Browning
‘Women and Roses’ by Robert Browning conveys a man’s perspective on women throughout time. They are represented by three apples on his metaphorical apple tree.
Work without Hope
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Work without Hope’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes the ways in which Nature works and the importance of having goals, or hopes, to strive towards.
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—
The bees are stirring—birds are on the wing—
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
World I Have Not Made
by Elizabeth Jennings
After the 1961 collection, Jennings, poet to ‘World I Have Not Made‘, came up with Recoveries (1964) and The Mind
Write
by Carol Ann Duffy
‘Write’ by Carol Ann Duffy is a celebration of love and the power that writing has to depict and understand its emotional intensity.
Write that the sun bore down on me,
kissing and kissing, and my face
reddened, blackened, whitened to ash,
was blown away by the passionate wind
XII: An Epitaph
by A. E. Housman
In Housman’s ‘XII: An Epitaph,’ readers will hear from a speaker who knows he’s about to die and is happy to accept his fate.
Yes Thou Art Gone
by Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë was a poet who was remarkable ahead of her time, having lived during the first half of the
You Are Old, Father William
by Lewis Carroll
‘You Are Old, Father William’ by Lewis Carroll is a poem that is structured as a dialogue between a “father” and “his son”.
You
by Carol Ann Duffy
‘You‘ is taken from a poetry collection called “Rapture”. This collection consists mainly of love poems which are far from
Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.
