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Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. [7] The poem itself is a dramatic monologue by an elderly character. The use of pronouns such as "us" and "I" regarding the speaker and a member of the opposite sex as well as the general discourse in lines 53–58, in the opinion of Anthony David Moody, presents ...
Thou by thy dial’s shady stealth mayst know Time’s thievish progress to eternity; Look, what thy memory cannot contain, Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find Those children nursed, delivered from thy brain, To take a new acquaintance of thy mind. These offices, so oft as thou wilt look, Shall profit thee, and much enrich thy book.
Rain opens with a quote from Antonio Porchia and Paterson regularly works off the work of other writers (often non-English language writers) such as Slavoj Žižek, Li Po, and César Vallejo. Rain contains 30 poems. Aside from the title poem some of the more famous poems included are: Two Trees; The Swing; Renku: My Last Thirty-Five Deaths; The ...
Following Horace Davis, Stephen Booth notes the similarity of this poem in theme and imagery to Sonnet 120. Gerald Massey finds an analogue to lines 7–8 in The Faerie Queene , 2.1.20. In 1768, Edward Capell altered line ten by replacing the word "loss" with the word "cross".
Sonnet 31 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.It is a sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. Developing an idea introduced at the end of Sonnet 30, this poem figures the young man's superiority in terms of the possession of all the love the speaker has ever experienced.
The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31, is a song cycle written in 1943 by Benjamin Britten for tenor, solo horn and a string orchestra.Composed during the Second World War at the request of the horn player Dennis Brain, it is a setting of a selection of six poems by English poets on the subject of night, including both its calm and its sinister aspects.
Get ready for all of the NYT 'Connections’ hints and answers for #141 on Monday, October 30, 2023. ... Major cross-country storm to spread snow, rain along 2,600-mile swath. Weather. AccuWeather.
Sonnet 137 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.