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"Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") is a poem by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), one of the best known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine's first collection, Poèmes saturniens, published in 1866 (see 1866 in poetry). The poem forms part of the "Paysages tristes" ("Sad landscapes") section of the collection. [1]
This poem was inspired by "Long Autumn Night" by Wang Yong 王融 [1] of the 5th century. Gustav Mahler 's choral symphony Das Lied von der Erde , 2nd movement, was based on this Tang poem about a lonely young girl at her silk loom in a wealthy household.
Of all of Keats's poems, "To Autumn", with its catalogue of concrete images, [16] most closely describes a paradise as realized on earth while also focusing on archetypal symbols connected with the season. Within the poem, autumn represents growth, maturation and finally an approaching death. There is a fulfilling union between the ideal and ...
The long poem in the book which is titled "The Auroras of Autumn" is a 240-line poem divided into ten cantos of 24 lines each. It is considered one of Stevens' more challenging and "difficult" [ 3 ] works, and a 20th-century example of the English Romantic tradition. [ 4 ]
Autumn Journal is an autobiographical long poem in twenty-four sections by Louis MacNeice. It was written between August and December 1938, and published as a single volume by Faber and Faber in May 1939. Written in a discursive form, it sets out to record the author's state of mind as the approaching World War II seems more and more inevitable.
Sonnet 73, one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, focuses on the theme of old age.The sonnet addresses the Fair Youth.Each of the three quatrains contains a metaphor: Autumn, the passing of a day, and the dying out of a fire.
Haustlǫng (Old Norse: 'Autumn-long'; anglicized as Haustlöng) is a skaldic poem composed around the beginning of the 10th century by the Norwegian skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. [ 1 ] The poem has been preserved in the 13th-century Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson , who quotes two groups of stanzas from it and some verses to illustrate technical ...
A Song of Autumn" is a poem by Adam Lindsay Gordon set to music by Edward Elgar in 1892. The song was dedicated by Elgar to 'Miss Marshall'. [1] It was first published by Orsborn & Tuckwood, then by Ascherberg in 1892 before it was re-published in 1907 as one of the Seven Lieder, with English and German words (German words by Edward Sachs).