William Walter
Poetry Bee Blog #26: Our Last Blog!
When talking about English literature, it is useful to group the authors together according to the time they lived. But sometimes authors...
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William Walter
- Apr 4
- 7 min
Poetry Bee Blog #24: Old and New
In this week’s blog we will be going over both the new and the old. Let’s first give age its honor and talk about the epic first. Perhaps...
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William Walter
- Mar 22
- 4 min
Poetry Blog #23: Victorian Poets
I have a textbook of Victorian Poetry that I used when I was in school. Can you guess what poet’s work takes up the bulk of the book—more...
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William Walter
- Mar 16
- 4 min
Poetry Blog #22: Catalexis and Feminine Endings
There is now about a month before poetry bee! Are you prepared? In poetry we have to learn a lot of fancy-sounding words, like catalexis,...
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William Walter
- Mar 8
- 3 min
Poetry Blog #21: Stanza Form and Caesura
I am about to go over some things that most of the students participating in the poetry bee have already been exposed to, especially the...
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William Walter
- Mar 1
- 3 min
Poetry Bee Blog #20 Carpe Diem and Other Subjects
How many of us let life go by! We waste our days, frittering away our time, efforts and resources on useless things. Then, when we...
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William Walter
- Feb 23
- 4 min
Poetry Blog #19 William Wordsworth
Our last poetry bee blog was about Coleridge. As I mentioned in that blog, one of Coleridge’s good friends was the poet William...
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William Walter
- Feb 17
- 3 min
Poetry Bee Blog #18: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For a time there were three poets living on the border of Scotland and England in the modern-day county of Cumbria at the beginning of...
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William Walter
- Feb 9
- 2 min
Poetry Bee Blog #17: William Cowper
You will probably be happy to know that this poetry bee blog is much shorter than the previous one; there will be a lot less information...
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William Walter
- Feb 3
- 4 min
Poetry Bee Blog #16 Walter Raleigh
The epithet or name “Renaissance Man” is used to describe anyone who shows talent in many disciplines. The word comes from the apparent...
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William Walter
- Jan 26
- 2 min
Poetry Bee Blog #15 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was a highly popular American poet and educator. Born in New Hampshire, he went to Bowdoin...
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William Walter
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Poetry Bee Blog #14 Thomas Traherne
We are continuing our series on clergymen poets with a poet named Thomas Traherne. Most likely you’ve never heard of him and you might...
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William Walter
- Jan 12
- 2 min
Poetry Blog #13: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley HopkinsLet’s get back on track here. In our past series of poetry bee installments, we have talked about sons of clergymen,...
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William Walter
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Poetry Bee Blog #12: Alfred Tennyson
In our past poetry bee blog, you learned that the Scottish poet James Thomson was the son of a clergyman who had aspirations of becoming...
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William Walter
- Dec 22, 2023
- 5 min
Poetry Bee Blog #11: James Thomson (Entry 2)
We are continuing our series of Poetry Bee installments on clergyman poets. In the previous installment you read how James Thomson, the...
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William Walter
- Dec 8, 2023
- 3 min
Poetry Bee Blog #10: James Thomson
We have often heard or even observed sons following in the footsteps of their fathers (and daughters in the footsteps of their mothers)...
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William Walter
- Dec 1, 2023
- 4 min
Poetry Bee Blog #9: George Herbert
I have already introduced to you the word metaphysical in talking about that group of poets who frequently used word play, paradoxes and...
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William Walter
- Nov 18, 2023
- 2 min
Poetry Bee Blog #8: Thomas Hardy
So far we have gone over two clergymen poets in our blogs. I have a couple more pastor/priest poets that I want to talk about, but I...
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William Walter
- Nov 10, 2023
- 3 min
Poetry Bee Blog #7: John Donne
In this blog you will be learning some hard words to pronounce, but I think they are words that you can all understand. They include...
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William Walter
- Nov 3, 2023
- 5 min
Poetry Bee Blog #6: Give 'Em Watts, Boys
As was said in the previous Poetry Bee blog, Isaac Watts was an “Independent” or “Dissenting” minister; that means that his ministry was...
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