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Michael: the protagonist of the poem, he is strong and hardworking—with a strong love of his land. He is the husband of Isabel and father of Luke, his beloved son. He is eighty years old at the start of the poem. Isabel: the wife of Michael, she is a prodigious woman. She spends her time spinning wool and flax, and is the mother of Luke.
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Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, by John William Waterhouse "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" is a 1648 poem by the English Cavalier poet Robert Herrick. The poem is in the genre of carpe diem, Latin for "seize the day".
"It is a beauteous evening" is the only "personal" sonnet he wrote at this time; others written in 1802 were political in nature and "Dedicated to Liberty" in the 1807 collection. The simile "quiet as a nun / Breathless with adoration" is often cited as an example of how a poet achieves effects.
Michael Joseph Alexander (21 May 1941 – 5 November 2023) was a British translator, poet, academic and broadcaster. He held the Berry Chair of English Literature at the University of St Andrews until his retirement in 2003. He is best known for his translations of Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poems into modern English verse. [1]
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Pentreath saw the poem Time's Paces attached to a clock case in the north transept of Chester Cathedral where it is to be seen today. [1] Recently the poem was even set to music. [2] Pentreath quoted his version of the poem in his last sermon at Wrekin College, Shropshire where he was headmaster till 1952. [3] His version then entered the ...
John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...