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The poem was an influence on the early work of Edgar Allan Poe. His first major poem, "Tamerlane", particularly emulates both the manner and style of The Giaour. [2] Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz translated the work into Polish. [3] Mickiewicz wrote in November 1822: "I think I shall translate The Giaour."
"Remorse for Intemperate Speech" is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It appeared in his 1933 volume of poems The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Yeats wrote this poem in August 1931. The contents speaks about the fanatic feelings and the capacity for hatred a person can feel in the dark part of the heart.
Byzantium" is a sequel to "Sailing to Byzantium" (from The Tower), meant to better explain the ideas of the earlier poem. An important insight on Yeats's concern of death lay in the poem "Byzantium" which further exploits the contrast of the physical and spiritual form and the final stanza concludes by differentiating the two.
A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" is a poem written by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, [1] first published in his 1938 collection New Poems. The poem begins with the lines: The poem begins with the lines:
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Ego Dominus Tuus, Latin for "I am your lord", sometimes translated as "I am your master", is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.It was published in the 1918 book Per Amica Silentia Lunae, where it introduced some of Yeats's essays, and collected with other poems in The Wild Swans at Coole (1919).
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The poem abounds in rhetorical devices to add to its effect; such are the frequent employment of alliteration, [p] of strange and harsh compounds, [q] and the repetition of words of agitated movement and feeling (e.g. rapidus three times, citatus four times, citus twice, rabidus three times, rabies once).