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The poem was reprinted under its full title "Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" for Wordsworth's collection Poems (1815). The reprinted version also contained an epigraph that, according to Henry Crabb Robinson, was added at Crabb's suggestion. [10] The epigraph was from "My Heart Leaps Up". [13]
The "self" serves as a human ideal; in contrast to the archetypal self in epic poetry, this self is one of the common people rather than a hero. [10] Nevertheless, Whitman locates heroism in every individual as an expression of the whole (the "leaf" among the "grass").
Doug Anderson (born 1943) is an American poet, fiction writer, and memoirist. [1] His most recent book is Horse Medicine (Barrow Street Books). He has written a memoir, Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery (W.W. Norton, 2009).
The poem recounts Crispin's voyage from Bordeaux to Yucatán to North Carolina, a voyage of hoped-for growth and self-discovery, representing according to one of Stevens's letters "the sort of life that millions of people live", [2] though Milton Bates reasonably interprets it as a fable of his own career up to 1921. [3]
Freya Stark alludes to the poem in the title of "A Peak in Darien" (London, 1976). Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire when the fictional poet John Shade mentions a newspaper headline that attributes a recent Boston Red Sox victory to "Chapman's Homer" (i.e. to a home run by a player named Chapman).
The section, "Power," contains poems about noted accomplishments of individual women, that she relates to all women. The poem, "Power," discusses Marie Curie's discovery of two elements, polonium and radium, which made her powerful but eventually led to her death. The eight poems in this section comment on the need for the nature of power to be ...
When her third book, Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010) was released, a reviewer writing in The Brooklyn Rail observed: "Unlike much contemporary poetry, Limón's work isn’t text-derivative or deconstructivist. She personalizes her homilies, stamping them with the authenticity of invention and self-discovery."
A "journey of self-discovery" refers to a travel, pilgrimage, [1] or series of events whereby a person attempts to determine how they feel, personally, about spiritual issues [2] or priorities, [3] [4] rather than following the opinions of family, friends, neighborhood [5] or peer pressure. The topic of self-discovery has been associated with ...