Mark Scrivener Poetry: Poems and their Backgrounds

SLEEP In this poem sleep is personified. Personification in poetry seems a natural function of the i...

  THE TRAVELLING TALES Though some of the original collectors of folk tales, like the brothers Grim...

WHITE ROSE This small poem is based around the metrical foot known as a choriamb. That is one stressed syllable follow...

THE JESTER AND THE KING The following short verse play is a folk comedy based on an old folk tale. It is written in a for...