Most modern poetry anthologies publish it on a single page, but you can still see the wing shape if you turn the book sideways. The type was set sideways on two pages, creating the shape of wings. I’ll get to a few ideas for making that happen in the next post, but for now, here is one of George Herbert’s most creative and beautiful poems, “Easter Wings.”īecause “Easter Wings” is a shape poem, and I’m not sure that the formatting will be preserved on different devices, take a look at the image above to see how the poem was presented when originally published in The Temple, a 1633 collection of Herbert’s poetry. It’s so much easier then, which is why poetry should be part of every family’s week. Springtime puts me into a poetic frame of mind, so by the time April arrives - it’s Poetry Month, you know - I have a stack of poetry by my chair and favorite lines running through my head. Most of the poems that have stuck with me were poems I learned when young.
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