Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of Aug. 8th
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It is the 220th day of the year, leaving 145 days remaining in 2022.
She wrote her stories in lyrical verse, about love and war and nature and death. Her technical style was traditional; her poetry was not. They were subtle and crisp, tightly written. They were passionate and romantic.
Her poems uplifted the voices of women. They supported the balance and harmony of nature.
Her poem, There Will Come Soft Rains later inspired Ray Bradbury's short story of the same name , It was written during World War I about how nature would prevail despite man's atrocities.
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plums in tremulous white,
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on low fence-wire;
And not one will know of war; not one
Will care at last when it is done.
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Her first collection of poetry, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published in 1907. In 1915, her third collection, Rivers to the Sea, was published to critical acclaim. It included the poem, I Shall Not Care.
Two years later, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
She died in 1933 in New York.
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