Katherine Mansfield Poetry

Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand writer known for her essays and journalism. She’s considered one of the most important authors of the modernist movement in her country. Her work has been published in twenty-five languages. Her short stories and poems explored sexuality, existentialism, and her identity.

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The Meeting

‘The Meeting’ by Katherine Mansfield is a short and image-rich poem that depicts a speaker’s reaction to a permanent separation from her lover.

We started speaking,

Looked at each other, then turned away.

The tears kept rising to my eyes.

But I could not weep.

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