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Sonnet 77 is the midpoint in the sequence of 154 sonnets. The fact that it is about a mirror may be relevant to its placing. Edmund Spenser mentions mirrors at the midpoint of his sequence, Amoretti, Sonnet 45 of 89: "Leaue lady in your glasse of christall clene, / Your goodly selfe for euermore to vew". [7]
" Brave, brave were the soldiers (high named to-day) who lived through" Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV. Sands at Seventy) The Calming Thought of All " That coursing on, whate’er men's speculations," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV. Sands at Seventy) The Centenarian's Story " Give me your hand old Revolutionary," Leaves of Grass (Book XXI. Drum-Taps ...
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. " A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning " is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death. Based ...
Sonnet 90. To linger out a purpos’d overthrow. Compar’d with loss of thee will not seem so. Sonnet 90 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word "Amen". It is recorded only at folios 81 verso – 83 recto [1] of the tenth-century [2] Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry.
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. " Dulce et Decorum Est " is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. Its Latin title is from a verse written by the Roman poet Horace: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. [3]
Full text. The Tyger (1794) at Wikisource. " The Tyger " is a poem by the English poet William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection and rising to prominence in the romantic period. The poem is one of the most anthologised in the English literary canon, [1] and has been the subject of both literary criticism and ...
African-American literature scholar Mary Jane Lupton Burr compared Angelou's poem with Frost's, something she claimed the poetry critics who gave "On the Pulse of Morning" negative reviews did not do. Angelou "rewrote" Frost's poem, from the perspective of personified nature that appeared in both poems. Frost praised American colonization, but Angelou attacked it. The cost of the creation of ...