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In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, [1] now officially titled "Desiderata." [2] Psychiatrist Merrill Moore distributed more than 1,000 unattributed copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II. [1] After Ehrmann died in 1945, his widow published the work in 1948 in The Poems of Max Ehrmann. The 1948 ...
Sexual dreams were a common Renaissance topic and Booth suggests that Shakespeare is playing on this usage. He cites Spenser 's The Faerie Queene 1.1.47-49, Jonson 's The Dream, Herrick 's The Vine, Othello 3.3.416-432, and Gascoigne 's Supposes, 1.2.133 as contemporary works that contain sexual dreams. [ 10 ]
It appears, however, that the Fair Youth's return yielded a happier series of poems, in which Shakespeare describes the return of his muse and speaks of the youth with "a lighter heart, and once more exalts his virtues, truth and constancy" [3] For historians like Massey, the sonnet is mainly an honest expression of happiness and joy at the ...
Honored as the first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, the 22-year-old Harvard University graduate has been playing with words since her childhood days in Los Angeles where she was raised by a ...
Having first referred to a child's coming of age, the poem describes a number of (particularly fatal) misfortunes which may then befall one: a youth's premature death, famine, warfare and infirmity, the deprivations of a traveller, death at the gallows or on the pyre and self-destructive behaviour through intemperate drinking.
Illustration by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. First published as number 208 in the verse collection Hesperides (1648), the poem extols the notion of carpe diem, a philosophy that recognizes the brevity of life and the need to live for and in the moment.
These sentiments now confront a horrible and merciless reality and deep regret for lost youth. The ephemeral happiness is embodied in Nerina (a character perhaps based on the same inspiration as Silvia, Teresa Fattorini). Nerina and Silvia are both dreams, evanescent phantasms; life for Leopardi is an illusion, the only reality being death.
In this poem, it is the Filipino youth who are the protagonists, whose "prodigious genius" making use of that education to build the future, was the "bella esperanza de la patria mía" (beautiful hope of the motherland). Spain, with "pious and wise hand" offered a "crown's resplendent band, offers to the sons of this Indian land."