Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill's "In Memory of Jane Fraser" appears traditional and timeless, reminiscent of 1800s poetry, despite its creation in 1994. The poem employs old-fashioned structure, slow rhythm, and...

The first couplet of the poem, Genesis, is a variation on the meter that Hill will use throughout the poem. The end lines of each stanza are all rhymes of "ing" (where most lines have "ing" in...

Geoffrey Hill's poem "September Song" is an elegiac poem about the poet's grief over the loss of a friend. He has structured the poem around alternating patterns of trochees and iambs, which adds to...