the poetry that inspired harry styles' music (explained by a literature graduate)

in this collection of poetry dogs are not cute fluffy little pets that love you no matter what here the term dog actually usually refers to a dismissive or harsh woman kind of a femme fatale kind of figure

so basically these lines from acts 3 scene 3 of othello are shocking because iago is basically telling othello that another man is professing love for his wife in his sleep while sleeping next to iago in the army barracks

this is a notoriously complex poem it is densely packed with allusions to shakespeare greek mythology the western literary canon hinduism buddhism basically you need to have read an awful lot to even understand what the hell is going on

the most important message from roomies collection of poetry is kindness. his poetry features a lot of imagery and symbolism of the natural world

bukowski has a poem and a whole collection called what matters most is how you walk through the fire and fire is actually a really prevalent motif in bukowski's poetry

we also have the book women and this is about people sort of drifting through relationships and just being pretty cruel to each other to be honest and i think that essence is very much captured in the song woman