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Imagery as Meaning in Poetry

The Willow Windle, Or "Ballad for the Willow Wives" being a folk song from County Withydingle, with its cultural context and appropriate historical notes

"As in the planting of a new discovered country" - an attempt at a rondeau

full-groan

Autumn is here - an acrostic poem

Natural Highlights - a haiku

The Tenant Farmer's Wife to Her Children During an Autumn Storm - a narrative poem

Friendship - a sonnet

A Castaway - a sonnet

Addiction - a villanelle (and a little context)

Wild Blue Sailors - to the Chicory, a blank verse poem.

The Augustinian Farmer to His Son in Wartime - a poem

A Modern in the Garden of Eden

"And the wheeling world remembers..." - Sipping Beauty: Considering 'The Barrel-Organ' by Alfred Noyes