Dream Visions: Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess vs. de Machaut’s Fountain of Love
In his poem, the Book of the Duchess, Geoffrey Chaucer reworks some of the themes and events from Guillaume de Machaut’s Fountain…
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Here you can find poems, essays and other texts created by Omri Shabath.
The Sultan’s Mother in Trevet, Gower and Chaucer’s Stories
In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Man of Law tells the story of a Roman woman called Constance, who undergoes great travails…
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night in Anne Sexton and Don McLean’s Works
Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night is one of the most famous paintings in the history of art, inspiring and influencing multitudinous…
Feminism in Mary de Morgan’s “A Toy Princess”
Mary de Morgan’s “A Toy Princess” is a fairy tale that revolves around the social norms and expectations of women…
Ekphrastic Beheadings – Analysis of Alicia Ostriker’s “Caravaggio” Poem
In her poem, “Caravaggio: The Painting of Force and Violence” (2005), Alicia Ostriker offers a vivid ekphrastic account of the…
The Stellar Generation
Outside, I call and call to no reply,Afraid her courage ruled away to flyAnd land on ampler planet which she…
Intervention
We truly tried to tell him to forget,To stop this solo act and seek duet,That for our beaten buddy aid…
The Dulling Den
The Dulling Den obscures the inner eye,Negates the will to wonder where or why;Restrained I sat there, blind to cry…
Merry Mary
Her chaperone I call in times of lust,With codes we deal; remain discreet we must.I probe her first – she’s…
Psychomachia
“Forget her,” hissed the lustful nymph on left,“Of consorts keep not any bed bereft!Your wooing bears no certainty of fruit,While…
I Saw You Once
I saw you once, now fixed in me you nest,Where even Odalisque your grace can’t test.An endless sea of charms…
The Politician
A public servant? When it suits my needFor wealth or power, else I just mislead.Suspicions rise? I fiercely wave the…
A Valediction of Yesterday’s Dawn
The stubborn Winter overstretched his stay,Prolonged the abstinence of warmth and ray,When through a cloud you broke and beamed at…
Incitement
The pent-up hate erupts with one eventSo horrid, leaving hearts and souls all rent.Like gas that bursts from shaky fizzy…
Sunstroke Fantasies
Alone she fords the alley in her path;A man there lurking, armed with urge and wrath.He lewdly lunges, her virtue…