Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Cherish Life While You Can

Selected by Emma Chiu


Description:
         Life is sometimes sour, sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, but it's everyone's job to make their life extraordinary. This list of poems reveal poets' expertise over poetic themes about life lessons and even bits of their personal experience that are included in a fascinating way. The poems describe the obstacles that we would eventually go through and the necessity to live life the fullest while you are able to.

Synopsis
          I love how these poems are just put into wonderful words that construct poems that reveal a deeper meaning; each and every poet is trying to tell people to live and never regret. They all have a way to carry their point across, and really convince the reader about their view in life.These poems could turn peoples' lives into a whole new direction just by providing them with phrases that are concise yet abstract in such a beautiful way.


POETRY


"Frozen" by Natasha Head
"The Layers" by Stanley Kunitz
"Nothing Twice" by Wislawa Szymborska
"Carpe Diem" by Robert Frost
"A Song on the End of the World" by Czeslaw Milosz
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick
"My Life Closed Twice Before its Close" by Emily Dickinson
"I Tie My Hat--I Crease My Shawl" by Emily Dickinson
"Live Blindly and Upon the Hour" by Trumbull Stickney