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Title Poet Poem Criticism Type Tags
Judith Oster: On "Two Tramps in Mudtime" Two Tramps in Mudtime Poem Criticism respect; love; relationships; anti-socialist; sacrifice; rights; sympathy
Poem "Birches" Birches Poem Criticism love; boyhood; metaphor; joy
Floyd C. Watkins: On "Birches" Robert Frost Birches Poem Criticism love; fear; divinity; transcendence
Joseph Brodsky: On "Home Burial" Robert Frost Home Burial Poem Criticism love; Wonderful; Hunter; Prey; Drama
J. D. McClatchy: On "One Art" Elizabeth Bishop One Art Poem Criticism loss; grief; control; love; At The Fishhouses; emphasis
Susan McCabe: On "One Art" Elizabeth Bishop One Art Poem Criticism loss; disaster; J.D. McClatchy; Freud; autobiographical; Rhyme; James Merrill; personal; mourning; Jacques Lacan; love; Lorrie Goldensohn; Villanelle; Adrienne Rich
Grace Akers on Poem Criticism love; family; feminism; appreciation; observation
Susan Stanford Friedman: On "Twenty-One Love Poems" Adrienne Rich Twenty-One Love Poems Poem Criticism alienation; violence; Transformation; love
Alyssa Mahoney on Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich Trying to Talk With a Man Poem Criticism desert; past; deprivation; salvation; essentials; suicide; love; notes; external; internal