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"To Marguerite: Continued" is a poem by Matthew Arnold. It was first published in Empedocles on Etna , with the title, "To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis". In the 1857 edition, the poem is printed as a sequel to the poem "Isolation: To Marguerite." There, it first adopted the simplified title.
Empedocles on Etna is a dramatic poem or closet drama in two acts written by the Victorian poet-critic Matthew Arnold and first published, anonymously, in 1852. [1] [2] The poem describes the philosophic contemplations and suicidal ravings of the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles (c. 494 – c. 434 BC) and his legendary death in the fires of Mount Etna on Sicily.
Written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865, Thyrsis is a personal elegy that mourns the death of Matthew's friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Clough died in November 1861 at the age of 42. The poem's plot revolves around the main character Thyrsis, a shepherd in Virgil's seventh Eclogue, who loses a singing match against Corydon.
Grief in any form is one of life's biggest challenges, but losing one's mom is a particularly difficult journey. These loss of mother quotes help honor the beautiful connections mothers make with ...
One year after Tristram's death, Iseult takes her children out to play. She tells them a story that she heard as a child: the tale of the fateful encounter between the sorcerers Merlin and Vivian. As they ride into the forest of Broce-liande, Merlin lets down his guard around the beautiful Vivian. They arrive at a clearing and stop to rest.
Poems of 1912–1913 are an elegiac sequence written by Thomas Hardy in response to the death of his wife Emma, in November 1912. An unsentimental meditation upon a complex marriage, [ 1 ] the sequence's emotional honesty and direct style made its poems some of the most effective and best-loved lyrics in the English language.
Sondheim has said that the use of the poem in the song was one of two times he had ever borrowed from another writer in his work, the other being the time he used lines from William Shakespeare in the song "Fear No More" from The Frogs. [5] Sondheim first learned of the poem from the short story by Charles Gilbert on which Assassins is based. [14]
“Friends” co-creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane recalled their last conversations with series star Matthew Perry, who died on Oct. 28 at the age of 54, during an appearance on “Today ...