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He was awful at making friends and spent most of his time reading or playing Nintendo and Sega. The first book he read was a book of Japanese folktales. What, Philip Larkin, the poet who famously said that ‘deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth’, appearing on a list of the most inspirational poems? But this quietly happy poem is arguably all the more inspiring and uplifting precisely because it is understated and written by a poet isn’t predominantly known for writing joyously about the world.

The verse letters and funeral poems celebrate those qualities of their subjects that stand against the general lapse toward chaos: “Be more than man, or thou’art less than an ant” (“The First Anniversary”). We've all heard of those gay penguins successfully hatching an egg, right? This story was featured here and it follows a gay boy whose coming out to his family is interrupted by people being excited about gay penguins. Also, prom night! I loved the humor and the cuteness in this. Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Robert Sanderson (London: Printed by Tho. Newcomb for Richard Marriott, 1670)--the Life of Dr. John Donne first appeared in the 1640 edition of Donne's LXXX Sermons.

Being a ‘phenomenal woman’ is not about being a certain size, or a particular shape. It’s about how you carry yourself, and how you behave. As with several other classic Maya Angelou poems, ‘Phenomenal Woman’ is about being unbowed, about holding one’s head high and being proud of who one is. In this poem, Douglas Malloch (1877-1938) shares an encouraging message for readers of all ages. Although we don't all hold prestigious jobs, we can all be the best at who we are. Our position in life doesn't make us more or less valuable. The beauty of this world is shown when each person does what he has been called to do and does it with great pride. When we measure our success by the standards of this world, many of us will feel as though we've fallen short. Douglas Malloch reminds us that success is measured by being the best at whoever you are. Like many, he came from humble roots, but he used his gift of writing to touch the lives of many people.

The poem introduced a couple of famous phrases into the language: ‘bloody, but unbowed’, and the final two lines: ‘I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul.’ I didn't know that this is some retelling of Pride and Prejudice , I should have after that title but I didn't after I read the first line. J. B. Leishman, The Monarch of Wit: An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne (London: Hutchinson University Library, 1951). Douglas L. Peterson, The English Lyric from Wyatt to Donne (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967). They added: “It will be interesting to see what poets today capture of this moment and how things shift in 10 or 20 years.”The force of the petition measures the dire extremity of his struggle with himself and with God’s adversary. Donne pleads with God that he too has an interest in this contention for the sinner’s soul: “Lest the world, flesh, yea Devil put thee out” ( Divine Meditations 17). The drama brings home to the poet the enormity of his ingratitude to his Redeemer, confronting him bodily with the irony of Christ’s self-humiliation for us. In Divine Meditations 11 Donne wonders why the sinner should not suffer Christ’s injuries in his own person: By this self-questioning he brings himself to understand that his suffering may itself be a blessing, since he shares the condition of a world in which our ultimate bliss must be won through well-endured hardship. The physical symptoms of his illness become the signs of his salvation: “So, in his purple wrapped receive me Lord, / By these his thorns give me his other crown.” The images that make him one with Christ in his suffering transform those pangs into reassurance. The assault against Death is stepped up in the final six lines. The speaker claims that Death has no power or control and is a slave to fate, chance, monarchs, and desperate men. Death only exists as a result of random accidents, governmental systems of law and justice, poison and war, and illness. Opium is made from flowers like the poppy, and charms are made from magic; both are just as efficient at lulling people to sleep as Death. Better still. How humiliating. How ridiculous it is to swell up with pride when undeserved when Death is humbled to a weakling. Line 13-14 One short sleep past, we wake eternally

Juno grew up in West Yorkshire, writing imaginary episodes of Doctor Who. She later turned her talent to journalism, interviewing luminaries such as Steps and Atomic Kitten before writing a weekly serial in a Brighton newspaper. In 2015, Juno announced her intention to undergo gender transition and live as a woman.As The Philadelphia Queer Youth Choir Sings Katy Perry’s “Firework”… - 5/5 - Absolutely beautiful. Always love David Levithan’s poetry <3 Donne’s love poetry expresses a variety of amorous experiences that are often startlingly unlike each other, or even contradictory in their implications. In “ The Anniversary” he is not just being inconsistent when he moves from a justification of frequent changes of partners to celebrate a mutual attachment that is simply not subject to time, alteration, appetite, or the sheer pull of other worldly enticements. Some of Donne’s finest love poems, such as “ A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” prescribe the condition of a mutual attachment that time and distance cannot diminish: A Sermon, Preached To The Kings M tie. At Whitehall, 24. Febr. 1625 (London: Printed for Thomas Jones, 1626). Jay Bernard, whose first poetry collection Surge was based on the New Cross fire archives and won the Ted Hughes award, said 100 Queer Poems was “coming at a critical, contradictory juncture: widespread hatred and distrust of trans people alongside huge efforts at representation and inclusion; general acceptance of cis gay and bisexual people yet rising intolerance post-Brexit; an increasingly vocal and visible intersex population, yet few legal rights or protections for them”. A Collection of Letters, Made by S r Tobie Mathews, Kt., edited by John Donne, Jr. (London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1660).

Smith, The Metaphysics of Love: Studies in Renaissance Love Poetry from Dante to Milton (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). Richard E. Hughes, The Progress of the Soul: The Interior Career of John Donne (New York: William Morrow, 1968). He accepted that he was a mistake. His first suicide attempt occurred the day before he started middle school.Since the dawn of time, we have been told in a litany of ways that we are 'less-than', 'out of the ordinary', 'abnormal', 'subnormal', or plain 'different'. We are none of these things. We are gloriously ourselves, and we show the world our glory during Pride."