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Literary devices Poetic tradition

X	Poem	Poet	Era	Themes	Summary	Links
1	Sonnet 73	William Shakespeare	Early Modern (1609)	Love, aging, mortality	A meditation on the speaker's aging body and the inevitability of death.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
2	Sonnet 141	William Shakespeare	Early Modern	Love, deception, betrayal	A playful exploration of the speaker's conflicting feelings about their beloved.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
3	Batter My Heart (Holy Sonnet 14)	John Donne	Early Modern	Love, religion, mortality	A passionate plea to God to break the speaker's heart so that they can be truly united with Him.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
4	Song: Go And Catch A Falling Star	John Donne	Early Modern	Love, desire, impossibility	A witty and paradoxical poem about the impossibility of capturing love.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
5	To The Memory Of Mr. Oldham	John Dryden	Restoration	Poetry, death, mortality	A tribute to a young poet who died prematurely.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
6	An extract from Canto 3 - Rape Of The Lock	Alexander Pope	Augustan	Satire, social commentary, manners	A satirical take on the frivolous world of high society.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
7	The Chimney Sweeper	William Blake	Romantic	Childhood, innocence, exploitation	A poem about the plight of chimney sweeps, who were often very young and abused.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
8	Ode To A Nightingale	John Keats	Romantic	Love, beauty, mortality	A speaker's passionate plea to a nightingale to sing forever.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
9	A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	William Wordsworth	Romantic	Childhood, innocence, loss	A poem about the speaker's childhood innocence and how it was lost as they grew older.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
10	To A Snowdrop	William Wordsworth	Romantic	Nature, beauty, transience	A poem about the beauty and fragility of a snowdrop.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
11	Remember	Christina Rossetti	Victorian	Death, grief, loss	A poem about a speaker's grief over the death of a loved one.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
12	Among School Children	William Butler Yeats	Modern	Memory, childhood, aging	A speaker's reflections on their own childhood and the passage of time.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
13	Spring And Fall (To A Young Child)	Gerard Manley Hopkins	Modern	Nature, loss, mortality	A poem about the speaker's realization that even the beauty of spring is fleeting.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
14	Design	Robert Frost	Modern	Nature, death, inevitability	A poem about the speaker's reflections on the seemingly random and cruel nature of the world.	Poets.org LitCharts
15	Suicide In The Trenches	Siegfried Sassoon	Modern	War, death, suffering	A poem about the horrors of war and the impact it had on soldiers' mental health.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
16	Morning At The Window	T.S. Eliot	Modern	Memory, nostalgia, loss	A poem about a speaker's reflections on their childhood and the passage of time.	Poets.org LitCharts
17	Money	Philip Larkin	Modern	Materialism, consumerism, alienation	A poem about the speaker's disillusionment with the pursuit of wealth and material possessions.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
18	The Cathedral Builders	John Ormond	Modern	Spirituality, faith, labor	A poem about the cathedral builders and their dedication to their work.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
19	An Introduction	Kamala Das	Postcolonial	Identity, gender, sexuality	A poem about a speaker's journey towards self-acceptance.	Poetry Foundation Poem Analysis
20	An Unknown Girl	Moniza Alvi	Postcolonial	Identity, migration, displacement	A poem about a speaker's reflections on an unknown girl from the past.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
21	Phenomenal Woman	Maya Angelou	Postmodern	Identity, self-worth, empowerment	A poem about a speaker's celebration of their own womanhood.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts
22	The Fisherman Mourned By His Wife	Patrick Fernando	Contemporary	Love, loss, grief	A poem about a fisherman's wife mourning his death.	Poem Analysis LitCharts
23	Animal Crackers	Richard De Zoysa	Contemporary	Childhood, nostalgia, imagination	A poem about a speaker's childhood memories of playing with animal crackers.	Poem Analysis LitCharts
24	Explosion	Vivimarie Vanderpoorten	Contemporary	Violence, war, trauma	A poem about the speaker's experiences of violence and trauma.	Poetry Foundation LitCharts