Friday, May 2, 2025

Roger Zelazny Poetry Month Overview

Here's the Final List:

1. For a Breath I TarryA Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
2. The Last Defender of CamelotSir Galahad by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Eye of CatA Blessing by Luci Tapahonso
4. GodsonBecause I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
5. Creatures of Light and DarknessThe Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
6. The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His MouthThe Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
7. Divine MadnessTo His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
8. Comes Now the PowerStill I Rise by Maya Angelou
9. Damnation AlleyInvictus by William Ernest Henley
10. Nine Princes in AmberUlysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
11. A Rose for EcclesiastesEcclesiastes 
12. Lord of LightThe Upanishads
13. And Call Me Conrad (This Immortal)Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
14. Jack of ShadowsKubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
15. The Guns of AvalonLa Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
16. The Changing LandThe Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe
17. Home is the HangmanThe Tyger by William Blake
18. 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai – Death poem by Bashō
19. He Who ShapesThe Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
20. Isle of the DeadWhen You Are Old by W.B. Yeats
21. The Graveyard HeartLove After Love by Derek Walcott
22. The Force That Through the Circuit Drives the CurrentThe Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower by Dylan Thomas
23. RoadmarksRoads by Edward Thomas
24. Doorways in the SandWhen I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman
25. PermafrostWhat Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St. Vincent Millay
26. Deus IraeGod’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
27. The Courts of ChaosCorrespondences by Charles Baudelaire
28. DonnerjackThe Distance That the Dead Have Gone by Emily Dickinson
29. Love is an Imaginary NumberParadise Lost by John Milton
30. A Night in the Lonesome OctoberUlalume by Edgar Allan Poe

Overall, it wound up being more difficult than I expected, but I broadened my horizons as part of the process and I'm happy for having done it.