Requiem and Ale: Poems Traditional and Modern

By Mr Sagar Singh

This book is meant to remember and forget: the love and the sadness, the dead and the alive. So it is appropriately titled, after a poem in this collection, 'Requiem', and another with light and wry a touch, 'Ale'. It is a collection of the most memorable poems you will ever read: quaint and medieval, Gothic and baroque, modern and lilting, lyrical. A most delightful collection of sonnets, Shakespearean, petrarchan, and others; ottava rima (stanzas that use an eight-line rhyme sequence, with eleven or ten syllables in each line); modernist poems of the sort that T.S. Eliot wrote, on the one hand, and William Butler Yeats, on the other. All poems, even those in free verse, are in meter, with "free verse" in T.S. Eliot's sense of the term. As an "extra" there are numerous haikus, as well, and a poem or two in blank verse. A collection that brings to mind the contrast of death and life that we sometimes sense in our minds: Requiem and Ale.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BSZWQCWZ
• ISBN13: 9798375055923
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"