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The word weed in line 6 is an expression common in Shakespeare's works used to mean garments or dress. It occurs in that sense in many plays, including in The Two Gentleman of Verona , when the character Julia wants to dress herself as a young man, she says "fit me with such weeds/As may beseem some well reputed page."
The poem has been set to music by Aaron Copland as the twelfth song of his song cycle Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson. John Adams set the poem to music as the second movement of his choral symphony Harmonium. It has also been set to music by Natalie Merchant (on Retrospective: 1995–2005).
"The Man He Killed" as it appeared in a 1910 edition of Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses "The Man He Killed" is a poem written by Thomas Hardy. Written in 1902, it was first published in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 8 1902. [1] The first book publication was in his Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (London: Macmillan, 1909). [2]
American humorist Garrison Keillor wrote a variation of the poem for the Introduction to his The Book of Guys (1993), which suggested that Cory's wife was the reason he killed himself. [ 7 ] The character Ben Nicholson, played by Paul Lambert misquotes the poem in the episode "The Case of the Envious Editor" of the CBS television series Perry ...
Literary critic Jonathan Yardley offers this praise: "The Country Husband' is close to a perfect short story. In the brief space of perhaps 10,000 words Cheever creates characters whom we see in full; he portrays the exterior and interior lives of Francis Weed with astonishing complexity and subtlety; he gets the suburban ambiance exactly right; he depicts with heartbreaking accuracy the ...
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The clear example of vengeance in the poem is the first line of “Avenge, O Lord,” which could be a reference to Luke 18:7, a Bible verse that speaks about vengeance, or to Revelation 6:9-10, a verse depicting the souls of martyrs crying out “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who ...