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[7] [8] The poem is a monologue in free verse describing his household (a boy reading to him, a woman tending to the kitchen, and the Jewish landlord), and mentioning four others (three with European names and one Japanese) who seem to inhabit the same boarding house. The poem then moves to a more abstract meditation on a kind of spiritual malaise.
However, a man of mature age may also prosper in terms of his material wealth and friends, and achieve happiness. The poet explains that the distribution of man's fortunes and misfortunes is in God's hands, including that of one's skills and talents: martial dexterity (throwing and shooting), cunning at board-games, scholarly wisdom and the ...
Mu'nis al-ahrar, left frontispiece, 1341.The clothing is Mongol, and the style corresponds to the Mongol Ilkhanid court of Iran. [1]The Free Man's Companion to the Niceties of Poems (Persian: Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar, often shortened to Mu'nis al-ahrar) is an anthology of poems written in 1340/41 by the Persian poet and anthologist from Isfahan, Jajarmi.
The poem ends with the couplet pointing out that though all men are aware that love in action may provide pleasure, it ends with a deep wretchedness; but still they can't resist. This sonnet is one of the most impersonal, in that only one other sonnet in the quarto collection (sonnet 94) excludes the characters of both the poet and the subject ...
Also known as "When I consider every thing that grows," Sonnet 15 is one of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. It is a contained within the Fair Youth sequence, considered traditionally to be from sonnet 1-126 "which recount[s] the speaker's idealized, sometimes painful love for a femininely beautiful, well-born male youth". [2]
An Essay on Man public domain audiobook at LibriVox; Essay on Man/Essay on Woman - UK Parliament Living Heritage; An introduction to the poem from a Hartwicke College professor; Pope—Essay on Man—complete text; Selected Poetry of Alexander Pope, Representative Poetry Online, hosted by University of Toronto Libraries
The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a prizewinning racehorse that escaped from its paddock and is living with the brumbies (wild horses) of the mountain ranges. Eventually the brumbies descend a seemingly impassable steep slope, at which point the assembled riders give up the pursuit, except the young ...
The poem is the base for the motto of Wynberg Allen School in Mussorie, India. It is also the name and motto for the Brampton, Ontario, Canada box lacrosse teams. In 1871 Mr. George Lee, a Brampton High School teacher introduced lacrosse to the town. He proposed the name "Excelsior", which he took from Longfellow's poem.