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"Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred") [2] is a poem by Langston Hughes. These eleven lines ask, "What happens to a dream deferred?", providing reference to the African-American experience. It was published as part of a longer volume-length poem suite in 1951 called Montage of a Dream Deferred , but is often excerpted from the larger work.
The poet's attitude—towards the wind has changed: in the first canto the wind has been an "enchanter" (3), now the wind has become an "incantation" (65). And there is another contrast between the two last cantos: in the fourth canto the poet had articulated himself in singular: "a leaf" (43, 53), "a cloud" (44, 53), "A wave" (45, 53) and "One ...
"The Wind" shows great inventiveness in its choice of metaphors and similes, while employing extreme metrical complexity. [9] It is one of the classic examples [10] [11] of the use of what has been called "a guessing game technique" [12] or "riddling", [13] a technique known in Welsh as dyfalu, comprising the stringing together of imaginative and hyperbolic similes and metaphors.
Sonnet 147 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
This quotation was voted the number one movie line of all time by the American Film Institute in 2005. [4] However, Marlon Brando was critical of Gable's delivery of the line, commenting—in the audio recordings distributed by Listen to Me Marlon (2015)—that "When an actor takes a little too long as he's walking to the door, you know he's gonna stop and turn around and say, 'Frankly, my ...
Late lunch makes day go faster; Learn a language, and you will avoid a war (Arab proverb) [5] Least said, soonest mended; Less is more; Let bygones be bygones; Let not the sun go down on your wrath; Let sleeping Aussies lie; Let sleeping dogs lie; Let the buyer beware; Let the cat out of the bag [15] Let the dead bury the dead (N.T.)
“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1]
In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "rebuffed the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine epiphany. Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote". [2]