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  2. Lark - Wikipedia

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    These meanings of daybreak and religious reference can be combined, as in Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion, into a "spiritual daybreak" [20] to signify "passage from Earth to Heaven and from Heaven to Earth". [21] With Renaissance painters such as Domenico Ghirlandaio, the lark symbolizes Christ, with reference to John 16:16. [22]

  3. The Lark Ascending - Wikipedia

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    George Meredith in 1893 by G. F. Watts "The Lark Ascending" is a poem of 122 lines by the English poet George Meredith about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon called it matchless of its kind, "a sustained lyric which never for a moment falls short of the effect aimed at, soars up and up with the song it imitates, and unites inspired spontaneity with a demonstration of effortless ...

  4. To a Skylark - Wikipedia

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    First page of the original manuscript to "To a Skylark" 1820 publication in the Prometheus Unbound collection. 1820 cover of Prometheus Unbound, C. and J. Ollier, London. "To a Skylark" is a poem completed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June 1820 and published accompanying his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound by Charles and James Ollier in London.

  5. Ode to a Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    [32] With these views in mind, the poem recalls Keats's earlier view of pleasure and an optimistic view of poetry found within his earlier poems, especially Sleep and Poetry, and rejects them. [33] This loss of pleasure and incorporation of death imagery lends the poem a dark air, which connects "Ode to a Nightingale" with Keats' other poems ...

  6. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work.

  7. Gelett Burgess - Wikipedia

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    Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist.. He was an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, and association with The Crowd literary group.

  8. Poetic diction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...

  9. The Singing, Springing Lark - Wikipedia

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    The oldest wants diamonds, the second pearls, and the youngest a singing, springing lark (or a rose in some versions). The man is able to find diamonds and pearls, but he fails to find a lark. On his journey home, the man sees a lark in a tall tree, and orders his servant to catch it.