What is a good poem about absence?

Another fine poem about absence, this time from the English poet Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). 5. Emily Dickinson, ‘Absence disembodies – so does Death’. This poem, which comprises a single quatrain reproduced in full above, is typical Emily Dickinson: enigmatic to the point of riddling. How does absence disembody, we might ask?

Who wrote the poem 'absence'?

This poem has often been attributed to John Donne, although we cannot be sure he was the author. Whether Donne or someone else wrote it, it’s a fine poem, in which the speaker addresses ‘Absence’ directly – or, to use the more technical rhetorical word, apostrophises Absence (meaning to address someone who is absent). 3. Mary Robinson, ‘ Absence ’.

What is a Larkin poem about absence?

But we’ve opted for another Larkin poem about absence here. ‘Home Is So Sad’ (written in 1958) explores the notion of ‘home’ when that home is left empty, when the ‘heart’ is removed from it, when it has lost what even makes it a ‘home’ (rather than mere bricks and mortar).

What happens in absence?

Though absence reigns, and heartbeats slow, The warmth of love will always flow. Stars whisper at night, In their glow, shadows linger, What once danced is still. The cosmos holds empty sighs, A vastness draped in silence. In absence, time does pause, a breath held tight, Each tick, a whisper, echoes in the dark.

What is the theme of absence by Amy Lowell?

In ‘Absence’, Mew treats a theme we often find in her poetry: the loss or absence of a loved one. 7. Amy Lowell, ‘ Absence ’. Chilled by the wind from the open window. Empty and void, it sparkles white in the moonlight. Of wistaria blossoms. And tap against the wall. And cold, and empty