The Classic Poem

'The Classic Poem' is a space for practical criticism of published, non-Singaporean poems that have been quite widely read, or even for revisiting poems are so timeless and classic that pretty much everybody knows them. What do you think Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' really means? What's so unusual about John Donne's 'A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day, being the shortest day?'. Or even, what kind of subversive subtext lies under 'Prometheus Unbound'?

Tell us all about it!

Gerard Manley Hopkins's 'Spring and Fall'
Vol. 1 No. 1 Oct 2001

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