flowersforplath

Love love love this! My first impression was that this poem has a ballad-like quality to it. The repetition gives it the feeling of a refrain, the speaker is trying ...

Whaddyamean you can just write poetry and it's not terrible? This is extremely bleak, as I expected. The line about being 'desperate to meet nobody' is doing a lot. The ...

Hello! This poem is doing something very interesting. It takes an intimate relationship and filters it through biblical, liturgical, academic language until the beloved becomes both a body and a ...

Hello! I first noticed how sharp and direct this poem feels. There’s a kind of controlled bluntness to it that suits the subject matter really well. The opening line especially, ...

Oh hello! When I first read this poem, what struck me most was the heavy sense of domesticity, e.g. the idea of being married to a ghost or finding a ...