By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop, through the loneliness of separation, to end ...

Her poem Variations on the Word Love discusses many forms of love, but ultimately, for me, it is a reminder of the awesome power of that emotion. She speaks of how the word "love" - only four ...

Her use of simple yet evocative language, such as “ghosts of fingerprints on the mirror,” captures the haunting presence of absence. This poem reminds readers of the enduring impact of love ...