Mary Oliver?, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and one of America’s most cherished voices in contemporary poetry, had an extraordinary gift for observing the natural world. Her work captures the fleeting beauty of nature and the quiet wisdom found in everyday landscapes. Summer, a se

Anne Sexton?’s poem The Double Image is one of her most haunting and complex early works. First published in her debut collection To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), the poem is deeply autobiographical. It captures a fragmented but emotionally powerful exploration of the re

Ezra Pound’s The Seafarer is one of the most studied and debated poems in early twentieth-century literature. It is not, strictly speaking, a work of Pound’s original invention. Rather, it is a modern adaptation of an Old English poem of the same name that dates back to the ten