Having read most of them and understanding that when translated to English at the end of each poem they all were coming to the same conclusion and had the same sense of peace once you read each one. It shows how diversity can become one in poetry and we can share and understand each other completely. These "gates" are selections of different points of spiritual life and they represent something different. It was Gavaskar The real master Just like a wall We couldn't out Gavaskar at all Not at all You know the West Indies couldn't out Gavaskar at all. A. E. Housman [ edit ] Alfred Lord Tennyson's Poetry". 5 December 2004. Archived from the original on 5 December 2004 . Retrieved 16 April 2019. In Kyoto” by Basho, translated by Jane Hirshfield. Reprinted with the permission of Jane Hirshfield.

Honestly, when I saw the words "spiritual poetry",I didn't know what to expect. When I think of myself, I consider myself to be a spiritual person. When I bean to read the different poems, it made me feel as though I was reading some of my own thoughts and emotions. Honestly, I find some of the poems very intriguing. Some of the words and verses used were very deep. That morning the soldier, his eyes fierylike blood in a wound, his purpose brutalas if facing a battle, hurried with his answeras if to the Sphinx. The first stanza is also quoted in full by Count Bronowsky in Paul Scott's Raj Quartet novel The Day of the Scorpion.drags him down all his life." This poem make me thing about the young men of today's society. The ones going down the wrong path of life, but refuse to change because in their mind, that is all they know. Even they hit the bottom, like going to jail or prison, or even losing loved ones or everything they have, they will continue down the wrong path. Too scared and too ashamed to take say yes to the right path. Plenty have sighed about the biscuit-tin jingoism of this work, which urged the soldiers of the Empire to “Play up, play up and play the game!” but it didn’t do the author any harm: he went on to become Controller of Propaganda in World War I. The longing for deepened connection may also be expressed as deftly and lightly as in this haiku by Basho:

But, no, I’ve been asked to choose, to recommend. The poems I suggest here are this moment’s choices, not “the best spiritual poems” (a phrase weighing nothing in so intimate and personal a context). The “gates” are an equally personal selection of entrance points into spiritual life. Some of the poems are well known, others less so. Each stands representative of many others. Each also, for me, plunges into the heart of the matter at hand, bearing witness in some essential way. Here, I am alone with you." This poem reminds me of myself. At the end of the night, when all of my children are asleep and the outside world is quiet, I feel like I'm the only one awake in the world. It's just me and God and I take this time to talk to Him; because in my reality, He's all that I've got. It didn’t take much for this sort of thing to grow into the patriotic drum-roll that made Henry Newbolt’s 1897 poem Vitai Lampada such an immediate and enduring hit.

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On a Branch” by Issa, translated by Jane Hirshfield.Reprinted with the permission of Jane Hirshfield. The amnesiacwho tunes into a new neighborhood,having misplaced the past,having thrown out someone else'scredit cards and monogrammed watch,would understand. When Alfred Mynn died in 1861, William Jeffrey Prowse penned a poem in his memory. The first six stanzas compare Mynn with his contemporaries and the poem closes with these lines: This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.