book reviews

Reviews of the best poetry books, collections and anthologies; discover poems and up-and-coming poets across all cultures, genres and themes.

My thoughts after reading A Brief History of the Future
In the vast books, choose a book, read a book, this is a very predestined thing. So, for every book I can take down from the huge shelf, there must be a reason to take it. So what is my reason for taking down A Brief History of the Future?
By xinghan4 years ago in Poets
"Ordinary World" after reading
The book "Ordinary World" has brought me a lot. I was going to bring them to me, list them all, but I don't think so. For a thousand people reading Hamlet, there are a thousand Hamlets. One thousand people read "Ordinary world", there are one thousand kinds of ordinary world. What gives you a big shock may not give another person a shock.
By xinghan4 years ago in Poets
After reading the Analects of Confucius
Feel the transcendence and limitation of the ancients. Confucius's many words all and is very anxious that saint, but there are also a lot of theory is not adapt to the current age, need to re-examine, his desire for the restoration of rites, for example, is clearly inappropriate, today the collapse of the old order and transition period for the formation of new order will produce so-called ceremony music bad phenomenon is normal, if so will open the back of history,
By xinghan4 years ago in Poets
"Ordinary World" after reading
People would rather worry about the eating, drinking and minutias of a crappy movie actor than understand the turbulent inner world of an average person.
By xinghan4 years ago in Poets
"Robinson Crusoe" after reading
A few days of leisure time, in a hurry to browse the Robinson Crusoe, not to mention accuracy, let's use the way of notes here for a simple sentiment and review it;
By xinghan4 years ago in Poets
How do we return to hope?
A cloud the moment before rain. The seed of action in the second before movement. A pregnant pause before the unacknowledged is said aloud – or not, and forgotten as a new decision is made by someone else. How do we return to ourselves in the moments we want to embody our desires, longing for change, and ideas in a time when we look around at the world and feel powerless? By reading poems, of course!
By Joe Nasta | Seattle foodie poet4 years ago in Poets
Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls
Chaucer was and still is one of the greatest influences in the literary world. Some see Chaucer as the father of literature possibly because of the way he wrote poetry not ordinarily but with words that were glossed over to make it even sound poetic. He was mostly known for the Canterbury Tales. “The Parliament of Fowls” starts off as Nature telling the birds to decide who to love because it is almost spring and the birds need to procreate and produce offspring before they all become extinct. Chaucer’s views on class are exposed in Parliament of Fowls by having Nature choosing to speak to the eagle first, the eagle can be expressed as a representation of noble society and the birds that are chosen last are the smaller and weaker species, which represents the lower classes. But, how does Chaucer’s use of language contribute to lines from 365 to 378 create meaning within the context as a whole?
By Ada Zuba4 years ago in Poets
Harry Potter
Harry Potter A boy too young to know his fame Getting caught up in a crazy game Finding out about his parents’ lives
By Lea Rue4 years ago in Poets
Harry Potter: Boy to Man
Boy to Man I was a boy I was fifteen when I realized what it was to be a man Everyone kept telling me I was almost a man
By Lea Rue4 years ago in Poets
A Woman Scorned
Wrongly attributed to Shakespeare, the idiom "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned was adapted from the lines of a 1697 play by William Congreve, The Mourning Bride. The actual quote is, "Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,/ Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd" (Congreve 3.2). Gaspara Stampa is a scorned woman with a rocky relationship with her lover.
By Miss Ghoul4 years ago in Poets
Hermione Granger
Hermione Granger The brave The smart The talented These all make the greatest witch of her age Hermione Granger The way she
By Lea Rue4 years ago in Poets
Break Out / Rock Bottom / Accountable X line / Double Minded Sistah
Break Out! Finally, broke out that hen pen, ready to win! They said I was a joke, while I was choking- I retreated, after giving myself the Heimlich_
By Olishua_ Honie4444 years ago in Poets