He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest…
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: love poetry, mourning, requiem, W. H. Auden
-
Free association
A.K. Ramanujam ageing childhood conversational culture dark humor death defiance E. E. Cummings Edna St. Vincent Millay family fantasy free verse gender history humorous poems identity imagery loneliness loss love poetry lyric poetry Margaret Atwood marriage mystic mythology nature Ogden Nash Pablo Neruda philosophy poems about poetry poignant politics religion repetend rhyme rhythm social commentary song lyrics sonnet suicide translation unsettling W. H. Auden war