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The speaker of the poem is the character Aedh, who appears in Yeats's work alongside two other archetypal characters of the poet's myth: Michael Robartes and Red Hanrahan. The three characters, according to Yeats, represent the "principles of the mind;" whereas Robartes is intellectually powerful and Hanrahan represents Romantic primitivism ...
Lux Aurumque ("Light and Gold", sometimes "Light of Gold") is a choral composition in one movement by Eric Whitacre.It is a Christmas piece based on a Latin poem of the same name, which translates as "Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly to the new born babe". [1]
These included poems about the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, a poem that sympathetically describes St. Joseph's crisis of faith, about the traumatic but purgatorial sense of loss experienced by St. Mary Magdalen after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and about attending the Tridentine Mass on Christmas Day. [38]
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The poem's theme is linked to the Book of Revelation (3:12 and 21:2) describing a Second Coming, wherein Jesus establishes a New Jerusalem. Churches in general, and the Church of England in particular, have long used Jerusalem as a metaphor for Heaven, a place of universal love and peace. [a]
The poem is used by: Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929). George Orwell in ch. 21 of his novel Burmese Days (1934). Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves (1931). Wilbur Daniel Steele in his short story How Beautiful with Shoes. Madeleine L'Engle in her novel The Small Rain (1945). Louis Zukofsky includes the poem in A Test ...
THE WIND AT DAWN And the wind, the wind went out to meet with the sun At the dawn when the night was done, And he racked the clouds in lofty disdain As they flocked in his airy train. And the earth was grey, and grey was the sky, In the hour when the stars must die; And the moon had fled with her sad, wan light, For her kingdom was gone with night.
T. S. Eliot in 1920, in a photo taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell. In 1925, Eliot became a poetry editor at the London publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer, Ltd., [4]: pp.50–51 after a career in banking, and subsequent to the success of his earlier poems, including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), "Gerontion" (1920) and "The Waste Land" (1922). [5]