Sea Poppies
Discover this poem’s context and related poetry, articles, and media.
Poet H. D. 1886–1961
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist
Subjects Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Trees & Flowers, Nature
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Imagist
Biography
H.D.’s life and work recapitulate the central themes of literary modernism: the emergence from Victorian norms and certainties, the entry into an age characterized by rapid technological change and the violence of two great wars, and the development of literary modes which reflected the disintegration of traditional symbolic systems and the mythmaking quest for new meanings. H.D.’s oeuvre spans five decades of the twentieth . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Seas, Rivers, & Streams, Trees & Flowers, Nature
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
SCHOOL / PERIOD Imagist
Poetic Terms Free Verse, Imagist
If you disagree with this poem's categorization, make a suggestion.
Poem of the Day: Garden
