joyce kilmer

     

"I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree"

Trivia about joyce kilmer

  • In 1911 this "Trees" poet's first volume of verse, "Summer of Love" was published
  • "Martin" was one of the other poems in his 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems"
  • The Grolier Encyclopedia called his "Trees" "A work full of sentiment & confused simile"
  • This poet who wrote "Trees" was killed in action during WWI
  • 2 of his less famous lines are "A tree that looks at God all day, and lifts her leafy arms to pray"
  • "A tree whose hungry mouth is prest against the earth's sweet flowing breast" is one of his lines from "Trees"
  • Through efforts by the VFW, a memorial forest in N.C. is named for this "Trees" poet who was killed in WWI
  • In "Trees", he claimed that "poems are made by fools like me"
  • "Martin" is one of the other poems in his 1914 collection "Trees and Other Poems"
  • His "Trees" first appeared in Poetry Magazine in 1913

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