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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 ...
Dane-geld" is a poem by British writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It relates to the unwisdom of paying " Danegeld ", or what is nowadays called blackmail and protection money . The most famous lines are "once you have paid him the Danegeld/ You never get rid of the Dane."
The poem was first published as now known on 23 November 1925, in Eliot's Poems: 1909–1925. [9] Eliot was known to collect poems and fragments of poems to produce new works. This is clear to see in his poems The Hollow Men and " Ash-Wednesday " where he incorporated previously published poems to become sections of a larger work.
Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman.Though it was first published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing, rewriting, and expanding Leaves of Grass [1] until his death in 1892.
In February 1916, when Pound was 30, the poet Carl Sandburg paid tribute to him in Poetry magazine. Pound "stains darkly and touches softly", he wrote: Pound by E. O. Hoppé on the cover of Pavannes and Divisions (1918) All talk on modern poetry, by people who know, ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere.
House Speaker Mike Johnson informed Republicans at a closed-door meeting Saturday that Donald Trump favored moving his agenda as one sweeping package, according to sources in attendance — a key ...
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Collected Poems 1988: An Arundel Tomb: 1956-02-20: The Whitsun Weddings: And now the leaves suddenly lose strength... 1961-11-03: Collected Poems 1988: And the wave sings because it is moving... 1946-09-14: Collected Poems 1988: Annus Mirabilis: 1967-06-16: High Windows: Ape Experiment Room: 1965-02-24: Collected Poems 1988: Arrival: 1950 (best ...