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"Binsey Poplars" is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), written in 1879. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem was inspired by the felling of a row of poplar trees near the village of Binsey , northwest of Oxford , England , and overlooking Port Meadow on the bank of the River Thames . [ 3 ]
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the leading English poets. His prosody – notably his concept of sprung rhythm – established him as an innovator, as did his praise of God through vivid use of imagery and nature.
A common form of the Rede is "An ye harm none, do what ye will" which was taken from a longer poem also titled the Wiccan Rede. The word "rede" derives from Middle English, meaning "advice" or "counsel", and being closely related to the German Rat or Scandinavian råd. "An'" is an archaic Middle English conjunction, meaning "if."
Twitter user Ronnie Joyce came across the poem above on the wall of a bar in London, England. While at first the text seems dreary and depressing, the poem actually has a really beautiful message.
The TTPD booklet poem ends with the “all’s fair in love and poetry” stanza that Swift previously released when she shared the TTPD cover earlier this year. The Tortured Poets Department is ...
"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
Image of the Bruce, the main focus of the poem A, fredome is a noble thing, part of the most-cited passage from Barbour's Brus.. The Brus, also known as The Bruce, is a long narrative poem, in Early Scots, of just under 14,000 octosyllabic lines composed by John Barbour which gives a historic and chivalric account of the actions of Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas in the Scottish Wars of ...
An AI-enabled chatbot for the European parcel delivery company DPD called itself “useless” and said the company it was built for was “the worst delivery firm in the world,” after a ...