Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher
Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter,
So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly
Singing about her head, as she rode by.
Robert Graves (1925)
- This one is probably a hit with students (short and sweet) but it was the first time I really felt the difference between poetry and prose. If I has to choose, this one would be my favourite poem. ST Coleridge said poetry is the 'best words in the best order' and I think it should be able to capture a little of the intangible emotion in between language and emotion! This one has no clear metre and some attempts to rhyme, but the imagery here is the important feature. Very beautiful parallelism and a sense of poignancy captured in stark simplicity. An instance where an image conveys and emotion - I recommend using this to get thoughts started on imagery!
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