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  2. Sonnet 27 - Wikipedia

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    In Sonnet 27 the weary poet cannot find rest — not day or night. He goes to bed weary after working hard, which is the "toil" of line one, and the "travail" of line two. As soon as he lies down, another journey begins in his thoughts ("To work my mind") — the destination is the young man, who is far from where the poet is ("from far where I abide"

  3. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - Wikipedia

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    MACBETH. She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,

  4. One Word is Too Often Profaned - Wikipedia

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    Shelley uses the sentence I can give not what men call love which shows that he himself is not averse to the use of the word love but because it has been misused often by men everywhere to describe ordinary and worldly feelings, he will not use this word for Jane. The metrical feet used in the poem are a mixture of anapests and iambs. The first ...

  5. Cultural references to Macbeth - Wikipedia

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    Twenty-first-century cinema has re-interpreted Macbeth, relocating "Scotland" elsewhere: Maqbool to Mumbai, Scotland, PA to Pennsylvania, Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth to Melbourne, and Allison L. LiCalsi's 2001 Macbeth: The Comedy to a location only differentiated from the reality of New Jersey, where it was filmed, through signifiers such as tartan, Scottish flags and bagpipes. [28]

  6. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Full Poem and History - AOL

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    'Twas the Night Before Christmas History. The poem, originally titled A Visit or A Visit From St. Nicholas, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in a Troy, New York newspaper called ...

  7. Do not go gentle into that good night - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that the poem was written for Thomas's dying father, although he did not die until just before Christmas in 1952. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It has no title other than its first line, "Do not go gentle into that good night", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, "Rage, rage against the dying ...

  8. Macbeth (Strauss) - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth, Op. 23, is a symphonic poem written by Richard Strauss between 1886 and 1888. [1] The work was his first tone poem, which Strauss described as "a completely new path" for him compositionally. [ 2 ]

  9. Darraðarljóð - Wikipedia

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    Stanza 9 of the song has been translated: Now awful it is to be without, as blood-red rack races overhead; is the welkin gory with warriors' blood as we valkyries war-songs chanted. [2] The poem may have influenced the concept of the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. [3]