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You might also enjoy our pick of the best morning poems, our poems for night-time, and our poems about the sun and sunsets.
What wonderful paean to sunsets would you add to our list?įor more classic poetry, we recommend The Oxford Book of English Verse – perhaps the best poetry anthology on the market (we offer our pick of the best poetry anthologies here). That concludes our pick of ten of the greatest evening poems. ‘The Fury of Sunsets’ is a wonderfully raw and angry poem, containing the wonderful lines ‘All day I’ve built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.’ Who hasn’t felt like that some evenings? But Sexton’s work is distinct from Plath’s, and hers is a distinctive voice. Sexton (1928-74) was an American confessional poet, a contemporary of Sylvia Plath she also, like Plath, took her own life. It’s a good description: Larkin’s likening of the evening to approaching death, and the comparison of both to a silken bedsheet or piece of clothing, make for a memorable poem – and that’s to say nothing of the questions with which the poem ends. This short, unrhymed poem by Philip Larkin was called a ‘belated Imagist’ piece by the noted Larkin critic and biographer James Booth. We have analysed this beautiful evening poem here. It seems a rather straightforward poem, but, as with that other Frost poem, its simplicity is only on the surface, and is belied here by several things, including the sophisticated rhyme pattern Frost employs. This is one of the most perennially popular evening poems, so had to be included here!įrost called this poem ‘my best bid for remembrance’.
One of Frost’s best-loved poems if not the best-loved (the rival would be ‘The Road Not Taken’), ‘Stopping by Woods’, like Hardy’s ‘The Darkling Thrush’, takes a wintry evening as its setting but goes further into the woods than Hardy did (who was merely leaning ‘upon a coppice gate’). Robert Frost, ‘ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’. With visions, alien to long streets, of Cytharea
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The poem is short enough to be reproduced in full here:Īlluring, Earth seducing, with high conceits
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Hulme wrote as an illustration of what he thought modern English poetry should be, following the French vers libre (or free verse) model.įew poets before Hulme had thought to compare the red sunset to the naked flesh of a mistress of King Charles II, but the unusual simile only makes his poem all the more arresting and his description of the evening sunset – as seen by a London-dweller – even more visceral and vivid. However, Housman seems to have borrowed the phrase from Shakespeare’s Macbeth (‘The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day / Is crept into the bosom of the sea’) – but what he does with the phrase is quite arresting and memorable here.Īlong with his more famous poem ‘Autumn’, this was one of the first two poems T. The last line of the poem gave Colin Dexter the title of his final Inspector Morse novel, The Remorseful Day in the books, Housman is Morse’s favourite poet. Okay, so the first two stanzas of this poem address the morning and daytime, but it’s for the sublime final stanza that we’ve included this poem here.
Housman, ‘ How clear, how lovely bright’. The poem’s speaker leans upon a woodland gate and views the land around him as a symbol of the events of the nineteenth century, the ‘Century’s corpse outleant’ the speaker is made a part of the scene, not just a detached observer, as ‘outleant’ echoes the speaker’s own action at the start of the poem (‘I leant upon a coppice gate’).Ī thrush appears, and sings so joyfully that the speaker is convinced that the bird knows something he does not – that the thrush singing in the twilight knows of brighter days to come.Ħ. This classic Hardy poem captures the mood of a winter evening as the sun, ‘the weakening eye of day’, sets below the horizon and gives way to dusk on New Year’s Eve.
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