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The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
The poem opens [4] in a way that suggests reflection—the speaker remembers (and, is so, older now) the night his mother was stung by a scorpion, which bit the mother because of its predatory impulse, while hiding beneath a bag of rice to escape from the rain. The speaker specifically remembers this night due to this event namely, the mother ...
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement is a poem written by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796. Like his earlier poem The Eolian Harp , it discusses Coleridge's understanding of nature and his married life, which was suffering from problems that developed after the previous poem.
The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.
Poetry influences children, too, not only to learn to read but it can also make them feel more resilient because it often contains themes of strength, perseverance, and the ability to overcome ...
First appearance in Posthumous Poems, 1824. The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley before his death in 1822. [1] The work was left unfinished. Shelley wrote the poem at Casa Magni in Lerici, Italy in the early summer of 1822. [1] He modelled the poem, written in terza rima, on Petrarch's Trionfi and Dante's Divine ...
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 in audio on Poetry Foundation
Poems of the Imagination (1820); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1827 and 1832); Poems of the Imagination (1836) 1820 Ode to Lycoris. May 1817 1817 "An age hath been when Earth was proud" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1820 To the Same (Lycoris) 1817 "Enough of climbing toil!--Ambition treads" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1820 The ...