Thom Gunn

November 13, 2026

Thom Gunn is an English poet who belongs to the mid twentieth-century school of poets called The Movements Poets. Gunn was born in Kent, England, but moved frequently as a child in the wake of...

Postmodern & Other Poetry

The Missing by Thom Gunn | Summary and Analysis

By Kedar N. Sharma -

November 13, 2026

The poem The Missing has been taken from Gunn’s award-winning ‘The Man with Night Sweats‘. This poem, like all the others, responds to the real AIDS crisis in the 1960s and 70s in America. Gunn,...

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