10 Poetry Books to Read at National Poetry Day

Featuring the theme ‘Change’, National Poetry Day 2018 will take place on Thursday 4 October. By exploring activity nationwide, thousands of amazing events across the UK in schools, libraries, bookshops and hospitals, on buses, trains and boats all celebrating poetry’s power to bring people together.
National Poetry Day is an annual celebration that inspires people throughout the UK to enjoy, discover and share poems. To Celebrate the beauty of poetry, we find out 10 poetry book that still encourage people to enlight their mind.
1. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost: A all time favorite classic poetry by Robert Frost, this poem deals with that big noble question of “How to make a difference in the world?” which intend to find the meaning of this universal question.
2. “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Another Classic where Shelley paints for us the image of the ruins of a statue of ancient Egyptian king Ozymandias, who is today commonly known as Ramesses II.
3. “The Book of Nightmares” by Galway Kinnell: Fierce and forceful, rich and ravishing, alchemical and academic, Kinnell’s poems might be even better than his Collected, which won the Pulitzer and the National Book Award.
4. “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair” by Pablo Neruda: A collection of modern love poem which deals with the ultimate desires of love with the color of its liberal philosophy.
5. “Ariel” by Sylvia Plath: Plath’s poems are deeply felt, deeply menacing dreams, roiling and crystalline and absolutely essential to understand the meaning of living.
6. “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman: Whitman is one of those enduring American icons who seem to sum up and rebel against our way of life all at once especially with these lovely, celebratory, triumphant poems.
7. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats: Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” offers a sort of antidote to the inescapable and destructive force of time.
8. “Dance Dance Revolution” by Cathy Park Hong: In this collection of book, each poem is an interview from the bleak near-future, during a tour of a fictional city called the Desert.
9. “The Morning of the Poem” by James Schuyler: The Pulitzer winner book is in this collection is widely considered one of the best long postmodern poems of all time.
10. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The poem is the longest major poem by this English poet which relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.
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