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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'.
Print shows Maud Muller, John Greenleaf Whittier's heroine in the poem of the same name, leaning on her hay rake, gazing into the distance. Behind her, an ox cart, and in the distance, the village "Maud Muller" is a poem from 1856 written by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892). It is about a beautiful maid named Maud Muller.
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 ...
The World Is Sweet: Poems (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2000, ISBN 978-0747547501; paperback ISBN 978-0747551157) New Baby, illustrated by David Axtell (Macmillan Children's Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0333766323) Hot Like Fire and Other Poems (Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0747556473; paperback ISBN 978-0747599739)
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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]
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