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“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe ...
"To Autumn" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's "1819 odes". Although personal problems left him little time to devote to poetry in 1819, he composed "To Autumn" after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. The work marks the end of his poetic career, as he needed to earn money and could no longer devote himself to the ...
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He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And comes that other fall we name the fall. He says the highway dust is over all. The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing. The question that he frames in all but words
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 By a Retired Mariner, H. H. (A Friend of the Author) 1833 "From early youth I ploughed the restless Main," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man ((supposed to be written by a friend) 1833
John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...
Gopal Sukhu relates this poem to "demotion and exile," he claims that this poem depicts the exile’s landscape, which is the wilderness; he notes that the season is autumn, and that sadness that is peculiar to autumn is associated with this work. [32] From "Nine Changes," "be grieved by autumn" becomes a motif of traditional Chinese literature ...
"Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") is a poem by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), one of the best known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine's first collection, Poèmes saturniens, published in 1866 (see 1866 in poetry). The poem forms part of the "Paysages tristes" ("Sad landscapes") section of the collection. [1]