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  2. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem is also connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic. In the weeks preceding Yeats′s writing of the poem, his pregnant wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, caught the virus and was very close to death, but she survived. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women, who in some areas had a death rate of up to 70%.

  3. Volta (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The turn in poetry has gone by many names. In "The Poem in Countermotion", the final chapter of How Does a Poem Mean?, John Ciardi speaks thus of the "fulcrum" in relation to the non-sonnet poem "O western wind" (O Western Wind/when wilt thou blow/The small rain down can rain//Christ! my love were in my arms/and I in my bed again): 'The first two lines are a cry of anguish to the western wind ...

  4. To a Mouse - Wikipedia

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    Publication date. November, 1785. " To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785 " [1][2] is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785. It was included in the Kilmarnock volume [3] and all of the poet's later editions, such as the Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (Edinburgh Edition).

  5. Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    Sonnets using this scheme are known as Shakespearean sonnets, or English sonnets, or Elizabethan sonnets. Often, at the end of the third quatrain occurs the volta ("turn"), where the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a turn of thought. [27] The exceptions are sonnets 99, 126, and 145. Number 99 has fifteen lines.

  6. Leda and the Swan - Wikipedia

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    Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda, a Spartan queen. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of ...

  7. Ode on a Grecian Urn - Wikipedia

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    Ode on a Grecian Urn. Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by Keats. " Ode on a Grecian Urn " is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819[1] (see 1820 in poetry). The poem is one of the "Great Odes of 1819", which also include "Ode on Indolence ...

  8. The Raven - Wikipedia

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    —Edgar Allan Poe "Not the least obeisance made he" (7:3), as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1884) "The Raven" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by the remains of a fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at [his] chamber door" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". The tapping is repeated ...

  9. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude - Wikipedia

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    1816 first edition title page. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written from 10 September to 14 December in 1815 in Bishopsgate, near Windsor Great Park and first published in 1816. The poem was without a title when Shelley passed it along to his contemporary and friend Thomas Love Peacock.