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  2. The Giaour - Wikipedia

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    The poem was an influence on the early work of Edgar Allan Poe. His first major poem, "Tamerlane", particularly emulates both the manner and style of The Giaour. [2] Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz translated the work into Polish. [3] Mickiewicz wrote in November 1822: "I think I shall translate The Giaour."

  3. LA Who Am I to Love You - Wikipedia

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    Told from first person, the poem follows the narrator on a nostalgic, emotional recollection of her life. Humanizing the city of Los Angeles as a person, Del Rey pleads to "LA" if she can be someone of significance to them. The poem's main themes include remorse, guilt, fame, turbulent childhood, and deception. [8] [9]

  4. Remorse for Intemperate Speech - Wikipedia

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    "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It appeared in his 1933 volume of poems The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Yeats wrote this poem in August 1931. The contents speaks about the fanatic feelings and the capacity for hatred a person can feel in the dark part of the heart.

  5. The Winding Stair and Other Poems - Wikipedia

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    Byzantium" is a sequel to "Sailing to Byzantium" (from The Tower), meant to better explain the ideas of the earlier poem. An important insight on Yeats's concern of death lay in the poem "Byzantium" which further exploits the contrast of the physical and spiritual form and the final stanza concludes by differentiating the two.

  6. List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Wikipedia

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    A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...

  7. Albatross (metaphor) - Wikipedia

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    The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden (most often associated with guilt or shame) that feels like a curse. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).

  8. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    Poems of the Imagination (1815–1843); Miscellaneous Poems (1845–) 1798 Her eyes are Wild 1798 Former title: Bore the title of "The Mad Mother" from 1798–1805 "Her eyes are wild, her head is bare," Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–32); Poems founded on the Affections (1836–) 1798 Simon Lee 1798

  9. The Collar (George Herbert) - Wikipedia

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    "The Collar" is a poem by Welsh poet George Herbert published in 1633, and is a part of a collection of poems within Herbert's book The Temple. [1] The poem depicts a man who is experiencing a loss of faith and feelings of anger over the commitment he has made to God.