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National Poetry Month Poem #26: The Man from Snowy River, by Andrew Barton Pattersonn

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The poem was written at a time in the 1880s and 1890s when Australia was developing a distinct identity as a nation. Though Australia was still a set of independent colonies under the final authority of Britain, and had not yet trod the path of nationhood, there was a distinct feeling that Australians needed to be united and become as one. Australians from all walks of life, be they from the country or the city (Clancy of the Overflow), looked to the bush for their mythology and heroic characters. They saw in the Man from Snowy River a hero whose bravery, adaptability and risk-taking could epitomise a new nation in the south. This new nation emerged as the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.

A. B. "Banjo" Paterson and "The Man From Snowy River" poem are commemorated on the Australian 10 dollar note. The full text of the poem is printed several times in microprint as one of the note's security devices.

National Poetry Month Poem #24: I Carry Your Heart, by ee cummings

In which my wife reads a poem.

Poetry and the Gods, by H.P. Lovecraft (with National Poetry Month Poem #23: Sky Lotus, by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (Also featuring Shakespeare, Milton, and Keats))

A woman finds solace in her poetry, and then more than solace.

 

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National Poetry Month Poem #22: The Beast Below, by Steven Moffat

In which Tycho's geek is showing.

National Poetry Month Poem #21: Invictus, by William Earnest Henley

In which my wife reads a poem.

National Poetry Month Poem #20: Casey at the Bat, by Earnest, Lawrence Thayer

In which Thayer demonstrates that sports are stupid.

National Poetry Month Poem #19: Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein

My wife reads a poem by one of our favorite childhood authors.

National Poetry Month Poem #18: Memory, a Prose Poem, by H.P. Lovecraft

The second of the two Lovecraft poems for the month. I like this one more than the other.

National Poetry Month Poem #17, I Died For Beauty, by Emily Dickinson

The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe (National Poetry Month Poem #16)

This is your regularly scheduled Weird Tale, but it's also a poem, so please enjoy one of the most famous poems ever written.

 

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