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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| American literature | 11/19/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: ) i was having a little difficulty with this question and I would really appreciate your help The ... A: How a writer expresses himself [or herself] is "style." The definition of "style" from William ... | ||
| need poetry help ASAP | 11/18/2009 | Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian |
| Q: I have a couple of questions actually... My first is Why is William Carlos Williams' poem "The Red ... A: "Stiff life" in poetry functions the same way it does in painting: the images are usually inanimate ... | ||
| Poem | 11/7/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: I am sorry that you didn't even get a 'thank you' from a previous responder. Please don't spend a ... A: John: I believe you are remembering the famous poem by Edgar A. Guest. Here is the complete poem. ... | ||
| childrens poem | 11/6/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: CAn't remember poem my nana used to resite. Begins like, "Come little leaves said the wind one day" A: Teresa: The poet is George Cooper and the poem appears in many anthologies. I started to type the ... | ||
| poem | 10/27/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: my mom use to recite a poem and i would like to remeber the words to the poem the poem was little ... A: You haven't given me much to go on, but you are most likely thinking of this poem: The poet is ... | ||
| identification of a poem | 10/23/2009 | Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian |
| Q: I would like to identify a poem I learned in Junior High School. What I remember of the verses is: ... A: This might be what you are looking for: http://www.scvsc.org/newsletter/JAN%2006%20MO.pdf ... | ||
| birth and death | 10/19/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: for 35 years I have searched for this for my epitaph. Need it soon. goes something like this: They ... A: It's not really an epitaph, although some people MAY have used it as such. There has been an ... | ||
| finding Walt Whitman poem | 10/6/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: I try to find the text of the poem by Walt Whitman called "Joy Shipmate Joy." When I search the ... A: Ana If you want everything that he has written then you need to buy a "Complete Works" not ... | ||
| name of a poem | 10/2/2009 | Theresa Harvard Johnson |
| Q: I think it is writen by Robert Louis Stevenson, but can't seem to find it anywhere. It reads "We ... A: Greetings Monica, From the references I was able to find on the web, this poem is entitled, "The ... | ||
| Poem syntax | 10/1/2009 | Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc |
| Q: Van Scoyoc, I'm a young Mexican writer who is trying to translate Mexican Poetry to English. I'd be ... A: I do indeed speak Spanish...but not like I used to. My fluency has been eroded over the years by not ... | ||
| world book encyclopedia poetry | 9/30/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: I am looking for a poem that my 3yr old daughter learned in 1987 after hearing my read it to her ... A: Becky, That's "The Shiny Little House" by Nancy M Hayes. The full text is below. I hope that ... | ||
| poetry | 9/24/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: I'd like to know the author and title of this poem. A long time I have lived with you- and now we ... A: Chris, The poem is recorded as "author unknown" and either appears with no title or "Native Spirit ... | ||
| Can you identify this extract from a poem, it is driving me mad | 9/21/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: Naught man can do what have I left undone. The Poet is saying that what he has left undone could ... A: Paul, It's a misquote from Robert Browning's 'The Patriot'. Misquotes are always hard to locate. ... | ||
| poem identification | 9/17/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: Can you identify the poem, quoted by my mother over the years "Oh why do you walk in the fields in ... A: Margaret, This is a very short poem by Frances Cornford called "To a Fat Lady Seen From the ... | ||
| Badly remembered quote | 9/13/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: Since high school days (fifty years ago) I have recalled, badly, a few lines of poetry that involved ... A: Douglas, That sounds to me like Excelsior by Longfellow. The words "onwards and upwards" are not ... | ||
| I Need Help Finding a Poem | 9/6/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: I have been searching for this Christmas poem for some time now. I do not remember the title, or the ... A: The poem is "The Story of the Holly Sprig," written by Arthur Upson. It was published about the ... | ||
| Need Help Finding a Poem | 9/6/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: I've been looking for this Christmas poem fro some time now. I can't remember the author or the ... A: Amanda, The poem you are looking for is below this message! I hope that helps, CL Washbrook The ... | ||
| trying to identify a poem | 8/25/2009 | Theresa Harvard Johnson |
| Q: I know a few lines of a poem I believe is by T.S.Eliot but I am unable to find the whole poem. I'm ... A: Greetings Donna, These lines are a part of series of poems called, Four Quartets. This particular ... | ||
| poetry | 8/21/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: Please can you tell me the author and full text, if any more, of a poem my mother used to tell me: ... A: The author is the poetess, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, renown for her short poems of "morality." This ... | ||
| "Nature" Poetry | 8/7/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: When we study history of 18th or 19th century English poetry, we surely witness growth of a love of ... A: Raj, Nature has always been a dominant part of poetry. It dominates the Haikus of the Japanese ... | ||
| Safely Home Poem | 8/4/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: Ted, I have a copy of thr first two and last two satnzas that my sister Beverly claims to have ... A: Cheryl: I had this question in May, 2003 and I found several versions of the poem. The author is ... | ||
| Can youplease identify these poems? | 8/2/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: I'm having problems identifying the poems from which the following extracts come and wondered if you ... A: Helen, I do not know the specific book you are speaking of; children's compilations are ten a penny ... | ||
| Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat | 8/2/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: My mom who would have been 90 this month, use to quote poems to me from memory. One was "Little ... A: My mother passed away six years ago this month. She was almost 93. I know how much these treasures ... | ||
| Who wrote this line of poetry? | 7/30/2009 | Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian |
| Q: My uncle recently quoted to me two lines of Emily Dickinson: "But internal differences/ Where the ... A: Here is the poem "Farewell To A Friend" by Li Bai translated by Ezra Pound: Blue mountains to the ... | ||
| poem structure | 7/28/2009 | Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc |
| Q: Firstly thank you for at least being here. I am at present trying to get into uni. I am 52 and an ex ... A: Greetings Godfrey and thank you for your question. It is indeed a good one. There is no flow chart ... | ||
| Poetry | 7/21/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: From what poetry book of D.H. Lawrence does this first line come from: I never seen a wild thing so ... A: This short poem by D. H. Lawrence is called "Self Pity." It was published in 1929, the year before ... | ||
| In Goya's Greatest Scenes | 7/16/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: What are the other hyperboles in this section on Ferlinghetti's poem? I can only see "fifty lane ... A: You left out one very important hyperbolic phrase: concrete continent. There may be too many roads ... | ||
| In Goya's Greatest Scenes | 7/16/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: in my English IV class last year, we were studying the Beats and came across Ferlinghetti's "In ... A: Chelsea, First off; the hyperbole in that piece; "plagued by legionaries" "demented roosters" ... | ||
| In Goya's Greatest Scenes | 7/16/2009 | Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian |
| Q: in my English IV class last year, we were studying the Beats and came across Ferlinghetti's "In ... A: My article on Ferlinghetti's "In Goya's Greatest Scenes" focuses on the extended hyperbole engaged ... | ||
| Complete this poem please | 7/13/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: I can only remember.."The hands of time are wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just ... A: The poem has been attributed to several people, but the most likely author is Robert H. Smith. It ... | ||
| find a poem | 7/10/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: the only words I remember from this poem are " when you were a tadpole and I was a" I remember this ... A: Laura: I hope that you will evaluate my response to your question. Thank you. Ted Nesbitt The ... | ||
| unidentified prose | 7/9/2009 | Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian |
| Q: My mother-in-law has alzheimers and continually qoutes a piece of prose that she learned as a ... A: Actually, your quotations are from two poems: "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and ... | ||
| possible William Wordsworth poem | 7/1/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: Can you please identify these partial lyrics? Not in entire forgetfulness...Our life's star hath had ... A: Don, It is Ode:Intimations of Immortality. This is considered Wordsworth's greatest achievement ... | ||
| Old school poem | 6/19/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: My mother used to recite a poem she learned at school (she would have been 96 years old now) I ... A: After a couple of hours of trying various words in my searches, I dropped your title and started ... | ||
| Find the peom "I am not what you see..." | 6/19/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: A nursing home social worker and I are trying to find a poem we remember that may have a line "I am ... A: Sally, Apologies for the late response - for some unknown reason, AllExperts reactivated my page ... | ||
| old children's morality poem re: love,chores, and Mother | 6/9/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: I remember just this one line: "I love you Mother said little Nell, I love you more than tongue can ... A: My own mother, now deceased, loved this poem as well. There are many different versions of it, and ... | ||
| Author of poem, "Safely Home" | 6/4/2009 | Linda Sue Grimes -- Classic Poetry Commentarian |
| Q: I would like to know the author of this poem which begins, "I am home in heaven, dear ones; Oh so ... A: Apparently, the quest for the name of the author of this verse has been ongoing for years, and no ... | ||
| Thank you for your answer regarding the poem Dreams By Edgar A Guest. | 6/1/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: ). I find this site little confusing or may be being new to this site i do not know how to use it ... A: I am glad that I was able to find the poem and type it for you. When messsages are sent from us ... | ||
| Trying to find out the author of a poem | 5/26/2009 | Ted Nesbitt |
| Q: I'm looking for the name of the author of a poem. the poem reads : One broken dream is not the end ... A: The poet is, indeed, Edgar A. Guest. Many internet websites list the poet as "anonymous" or give ... | ||
| Finding the poet of a poem | 5/26/2009 | Clare Washbrook |
| Q: I'm looking for the name of the author of a poem. the poem reads : One broken dream is not the end ... A: Shikha, This is always attributed as anonymous. No-one knows who wrote it. These inspirational ... | ||
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Ted Nesbitt
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Expertise
I am a reference librarian and a former advanced placement English teacher. I can help identify poems, and I can define literary terms. In the area of literary criticism or analyses of specific poems, my experience and interests are these: Shakespeare, 18th- and 19th-century English literature, and American literature. I prefer short, specific questions on particular authors, poems, terms, or literary movements. I will not edit lengthy submissions or write students` assignments.
Experience
Masters degree in English.
Highly rated volunteer at the grammar and writing section of Allexperts.com for more than two years.
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