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Poems about starting over capture the transformative journey of beginning anew. These verses often express the courage to leave behind the past, embrace change, and embark on a fresh chapter in life.
Poets use evocative language to convey the emotions of hope, uncertainty, and the growth potential of starting over. These poems may reflect the sense of liberation and freedom accompanying letting go of old burdens and embracing new opportunities.
Through their powerful words, poems about starting over inspire readers to embrace resilience, adaptability.
‘Home Body’ reminds us that everything we need for fulfilment already resides within us. Instead of seeking validation or happiness externally, the poem encourages us to look inward.
i dive into the well of my body
and end up in another world
everything i need
already exists in me
‘Penelope’ by Carol Ann Duffy depicts how Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, changes while she waits for him to come back from the Trojan War. She becomes a new, happier person.
At first, I looked along the road
hoping to see him saunter home
among the olive trees,
a whistle for the dog
who mourned him with his warm head on my knees.
‘The Map-Woman’ by Duffy explores the deep imprint of past and place on personal identity, depicted through a metaphor of a female body.
A woman's skin was a map of the town
where she'd grown from a child.
When she went out, she covered it up
with a dress, with a shawl, with a hat,
‘The Wild Iris’ by Louise Glück is told from the perspective of a flower. It comprehends death differently than humanity does and shares its understanding.
At the end of my suffering
there was a door.
‘Mr Bleaney’ by Philip Larkin, written in 1955, relays the journey of a speaker as they settle into their new home and new life.
That how we live measures our own nature,
And at his age having no more to show
Than one hired box should make him pretty sure
He warranted no better, I don't know.
‘Refusal’ by Maya Angelou is a powerful love poem that speaks of one person’s dedication to another, as they find each other in every life.
Beloved,
In what other lives or lands
Have I known your lips
Your Hands
‘Divorce’ by Jackie Kay is about parent-child relationships and how children are impacted by adults’ issues. The speaker is a teenager who is struggling to contend with her parent’s relationship with one another.
I did not promise
to stay with you till death do us part, or
anything like that,
‘Elegy V’ by John Donne is addressed to the poet’s lover. He asks her to accept him when he returns, despite the fact that he’s going to look and act differently.
Here take my picture; though I bid farewell
Thine, in my heart, where my soul dwells, shall dwell.
'Tis like me now, but I dead, 'twill be more
When we are shadows both, than 'twas before.
‘Holy Sonnet II’ by John Donne is the second in a series of religious sonnets that Donne is well-known for. This poem is directed to God and explores a speaker’s concerns about their fate.
As due by many titles I resign
Myself to thee, O God. First I was made
By Thee; and for Thee, and when I was decay’d
Thy blood bought that, the which before was Thine.
‘Sonnet 35’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning contains the speaker’s worries about life changes as she embarks on a new life with her lover.
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me? Shall I never miss
Home-talk and blessing and the common kiss
That comes to each in turn, nor count it strange,
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