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Childs believes that the poem moves from Christmas Day in line 19 ("in the Juvescence of the year") to the Crucifixion in line 21 as it speaks of "depraved May" and "flowering Judas". He argues that Gerontion contemplates the "paradoxical recovery of freedom through slavery and grace through sin". [ 4 ]
The fifth line in the sonnet, "The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea", references the creation story of Genesis 1:2 (compare Milton's Paradise Lost 7:235, a poem Wordsworth knew virtually by heart), and a similar use of "broods" eventually appeared in "Intimations" in stanza VIII
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 ...
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1794, December 30 Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. "Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan," 1794 1796 To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem. "Thus far my scanty brain hath built the rhyme" 1794 1796 I. To the Honourable Mr. Erskine "When British Freedom for an happier land" 1794
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".
Over three days, rain amounts of 6 inches to 30 inches or more fell across a region from north Georgia through western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and into Virginia.
The speaker is proclaiming that he will no longer acknowledge the young lover in public. This is because he wants to avoid bringing further shame on the object of the poem via guilt by association, contrary to the reference cited. [7] Nor thou with public kindness honour me, / Unless thou take that honour from thy name: