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Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre is a poetry anthology edited by August Derleth and published in 1947 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,634 copies. [1] It is a pioneering [ 2 ] anthology of odd poetry from the Middle Ages to the present, arranged chronologically.
The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive existence that was socially accepted at the time.
This prediction, and the strange behavior of nature at this time, stood in direct contrast with many of the feelings of the age. William Wordsworth often expresses in his writing a belief in the connection of God and nature which for much of the Romantic Era's poetry is typical.
It starts in a house at night where it is raining and a scorpion, in order to take some shelter, comes to the house. This poem is about how the scorpion stung the poet's mother and the mother's love for her children. [2] I remember the night my mother was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours of steady rain had driven him to crawl beneath a sack of ...
The complexity of "Night" is addressed in Hazard Adams' William Blake: A Reading of the Shorter Poems. Adams claims that the poem is complex because of the speaker's push to join the natural and supernatural world together. These are two concepts that "to [a] child have never been apart," but for an adult, are much more difficult to join.
There are many different reasons to analyze poetry. A teacher might analyze a poem in order to gain a more conscious understanding of how the poem achieves its effects, in order to communicate this to their students. A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4]
Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years,; Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces. (1845-) 1841 Matthew: 1799 Former title: Bore the lack of a title from 1800–1820 and the title of: "IF Nature, for a favourite child," from 1827–1832. "If Nature, for a favourite child," Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. 1800 The two April Mornings: 1799
"The Little Boy Lost" is a two stanza poem with eight total lines. It is written in ballad metre (essentially a loose common metre). [4] In the poem Blake uses internal rhyme in line 7 "The mire was deep, & the child did weep" with the words "weep" and "deep". This played a role in the simplicity of reading the poem.