"Trees, and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer" is a compilation of early 20th-century poems where nature, faith, and what it means to be human are all explored. The poems show both beauty and sadness in life. The poems focus on the simple things but reach for bigger ideas, especially in poems such as "Trees," where nature is called divine, and represented through a tree. Other poems are about love, saying goodbye, and how time passes, usually with a feeling of missing something and seeing the beauty in life. Kilmer mixes personal thoughts with ideas everyone can relate to, allowing readers to explore their inward thoughts alongside the world around them through words. These poems revere nature and try to understand the poet's place within that world, making this collection a landing place for those seeking beauty and meaning in poetry.
Trees, and Other Poems
By Joyce Kilmer
Experience a world where nature and deep feeling intertwine, exploring love, loss, and spirituality through lyrical verse.
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About the AuthorAlfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.
Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.
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