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The poem has been noted as a cautionary tale for over-reliance on technology. [1] [4] Writing for ThoughtCo, Richard Nordquist described the poem as "an exercise in homophonous humor". [1] In Public Relations Writing, Donald and Jill Treadwell wrote that the poem has "humor that hits home for most professional writers". [4]
Some pages visually resemble a scrapbook in which passages are spliced and replaced, with some being blurry or otherwise hard to read. Other poems make literary references to Euripides, Monty Python, Martin Heidegger, Joseph Conrad, Marilyn Monroe, John Ashbery, and others.
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [1] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poem lapsed into public domain in 2019. [2]
In 1930 Davies edited the poetry anthology Jewels of Song for Cape, choosing works by over 120 poets, including William Blake, Thomas Campion, Shakespeare, Tennyson and W. B. Yeats. Of his own poems he added only "The Kingfisher" and "Leisure". The collection reappeared as An Anthology of Short Poems in 1938.
William McGonagall's parents, Charles and Margaret, were Irish. His Irish surname is a variation on Mag Congail, a popular name in County Donegal. [3] [4] Throughout his adult life he claimed to have been born in Edinburgh, giving his year of birth variously as 1825 [1] or 1830, [5] but his entry in the 1841 Census gives his place of birth, like his parents', as "Ireland". [6]
However it is doubtful that Nadine Stair ever existed. Just how Nadine Stair came to attributed as the author is unknown. Nonetheless, what is known, is that Sandar Martz produced an anthology of poems dealing with women and aging. [6] In this anthology she attributes Don Herold's poem, with some modifications, to a certain Nadine Stair.
The actor Paul Bettany, in his contribution to the poetry collection Poems That Make Grown Men Cry (2014), said of Patten's work: "Reading Brian Patten's poetry does that trick that art should do, which is to sort of adhere you to the surface of the planet, just long enough that you don't go spinning off into the loneliness of space - 'Somebody ...