Friday, 25 August 2017

Poetry Friday: “Love’s Alchemy”

The first thing I’m drawn in by in Margaret Rabb’s “Love’s Alchemy” is the lusciousness of the language. Alliteration and rhymes abound, and the iambic pentameter of the sonnet form holds the sounds together. Then as I re-read, I see that at the poem’s center is the wife of the 17th century poet John Donne. […]

from
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/goodletters/2017/08/poetry-friday-loves-alchemy/

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