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The poem begins with a priamel – a rhetorical structure where a list of alternatives are contrasted with a final, different idea. [12] The first stanza opens with a list of things which some people believe are the most beautiful in the world: "some say an army of horsemen, others say foot soldiers, still others say a fleet". [13]
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free" is a sonnet by William Wordsworth written at Calais in August 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807, appearing as the nineteenth poem in a section entitled 'Miscellaneous sonnets'.
Instead, the man's role is to act as a "contrast figure", [15] designed to highlight Sappho's love for the girl by juxtaposing the strength of Sappho's emotional reaction with his impassivity. [16] For instance, John Winkler argues that "'That man' in poem 31 is like the military armament in poem 16, an introductory set-up to be dismissed". [17]
Powerful poem is a PSA for homeless girls
"Southern belle" (from French belle 'beautiful') is a colloquialism for a debutante or other fashionable young woman in the planter class of the Antebellum South, particularly as a romantic counterpart to the Southern gentleman. [1]
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To a Highland Girl (at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond) (V) 1803 "Sweet Highland Girl, a very shower" Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803 1807 Glen Almain; or, The Narrow Glen (VI) 1803 "In this still place, remote from men," Poems of the Imagination (1815 and 1820); Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803
Cape Town, with its glorious sea vistas and flat-topped Table Mountain, has long been known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and now, with the new Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art ...