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Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian

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Please be aware that my field of expertise is "Classic Poetry." I do not study and write about Hallmark-Card type verse, doggerel, or pornographic versification.

I assist students/readers in understanding the poems most widely studied in high school and college English classes, for example, Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death," A. E. Housman's "Loveliest of trees," Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," W. B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Rabindranath Tagore's "The Journey," Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays," Dana Gioia’s "Words." I direct students/readers to online poetry analyses and/or research sources.

I do not dispense advice on creative writing issues, such as critiquing poems or offering ideas for poems.

Experience in the area

2003 - present AllExperts volunteer 2007 - present Feature Writer for Poetry at Suite101.com

Education/Credentials

1967 Miami University, B.A. Major in German 1971 Ball State University M.A. in German/English 1984 Ball State University M.A. English 1987 Ball state University Ph.D. American, British, World Literature, Rhetoric and Composition

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2009-11-18 need poetry help ASAP:

Dear Tiketa, "Stiff life" in poetry functions the same way it does in painting: the images are usually inanimate objects such as fruit in bowl or flowers in a vase. Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow"

2009-10-23 identification of a poem:

Dear Gordon, This might be what you are looking for: http://www.scvsc.org/newsletter/JAN%2006%20MO.pdf Capturing a Snapping Schned by R. Myers Somebody said that it couldn’t be done But I

2009-07-30 Who wrote this line of poetry?:

Dear Rhona, Here is the poem "Farewell To A Friend" by Li Bai translated by Ezra Pound: Blue mountains to the north of the walls, White river winding about them; Here we must make separation And

2009-07-16 In Goya's Greatest Scenes:

Dear Chelsea, My article on Ferlinghetti's "In Goya's Greatest Scenes" focuses on the extended hyperbole engaged in the poem. I think it might help you understand the nature of hyperbole. The article

2009-07-09 unidentified prose:

Dear Elaine, Actually, your quotations are from two poems: "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and "Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant: "Life is real! Life is earnest! / And the grave

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