Like the poems that immediately precede it, the poem offers the immortality of art as a way to escape time and death.
She had always tried to stay ahead of events, and the poem had offered more than a hint of change to come.
Simpson's best poems in this mode offer the quiet, disconcerting intensity of a good Hopper painting.
The title seems to refer, though not explicitly, to the passionate Portuguese music, a model for the emotionally exposed writing these poems will offer.
These poems offer, then, not care for the self but care of the other.
The poems offer a carnivalesque display of characters.
During periods of personal grief/sorrow, when feeling very alone, this poem has offered me comfort and refuge.
The poem offers an ironic comment on the lives of working class women.
The poems offer a welcome access into the many layers of meaning, music and magic.
Insisting on an answer to this sort of question is usually a mistake: Phillips's best poems offer impressions, not epigrams.
