P. B. Shelley and the Motivführung Principle in English Poetry
In honor of the 200th anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death, The Chained Muse is proud to present a month-long celebration of life...
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By Dean Robbins
- Jul 6
- 1 min
"Roots" & Other Poems
Roots An iron fence holds back the cluster of daisies from falling over the stone wall, though I have never known daisies to fall when...
Translation
- Jul 5
- 2 min
Al Poco Giorno e al gran cerchio d'ombra by Dante Alighieri
To the short day and the great arc of shadow I've come, alas, walking over the pale hills Where all the colors have vanished from the...
By Dave Earnhardt
- Jul 1
- 4 min
Ode to Icarus
Oh, Icarus, son of sons, orphan father of civilized man, you’ve a right to take heart at least in that dream analysis begun with you,...
By Johnny Payne
- Jul 1
- 7 min
The Endless Vitality of “Ode to the West Wind”
In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the poet's death, The Chained Muse is proud to present a month-long celebration of Percy...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jun 28
- 8 min
Beyond the Lines: Keats' "Ode on Indolence"
Throughout the ages, scholars, academics, and scientists have wondered, “What is creativity?” In the spring of 1819, John Keats...
By Daniel Leach
- Jun 23
- 1 min
Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach
The branch seems to float In sky’s image in water— Both are reflections. The desolation, To one with a quiet soul, Is like a refuge. Like...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
- Jun 23
- 5 min
Listening to "Dry Salvages"
T.S. Eliot protested at the critics’ tendency to interpret literary works through the lens of the writer’s biography, but hypocritically,...
By Jeffrey Essmann
- Jun 23
- 2 min
Three Stages Squared
After Christina Rossetti’s "Three Stages" 1. I fastened all my wishes on a star, Although the physics that it satisfied Presumed the...
By Craig Dobson
- Jun 22
- 2 min
Late Imperial Woes
I anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great...
By Rowland Hughes
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Falling Through Water & Mountain Stream
Falling Through Water Your eyes face a fading light, searching the sway of a young man whose footprints are shadows on a dark sea. You...