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  2. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent - Wikipedia

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    However, the references to light and darkness in the poem make it virtually certain that Milton's blindness was at least a secondary theme. The sonnet is in the Petrarchan form, with the rhyme scheme a b b a a b b a c d e c d e but adheres to the Miltonic conception of the form, with a greater usage of enjambment .

  3. Do not go gentle into that good night - Wikipedia

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    Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. [7]

  4. The Lamplighter (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus "when I am stronger" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would ...

  5. Dark Night of the Soul - Wikipedia

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    In darkness and secure, By the secret ladder, disguised —oh, happy chance!— In darkness and in concealment, My house being now at rest. In the happy night, In secret, when none saw me, Nor I beheld aught, Without light or guide, save that which burned in my heart. This light guided me More surely than the light of noonday

  6. There's a certain Slant of light - Wikipedia

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    The poem is sometimes formatted without stanza breaks or em-dashes, though it has both in Dickinson's original manuscript. [2] The poem's metrical pattern resembles ballad meter, however, only the final stanza fully follows the meter of a trochaic ballad. [1] The other stanzas are more irregular in observance of ballad meter.

  7. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont - Wikipedia

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    An example of regeneration is the lines “grow/ A hundredfold” and “Mother with Infant.” Several symbolic references to the Reformation era Protestant view of the Papacy appear in this poem. In stating "O'er all th' Italian fields where still doth sway/ The triple tyrant", a reference is made to the triple-crown Papal Tiara , which was a ...

  8. The Tyger - Wikipedia

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    "The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection and rising to prominence in the romantic period. The poem is one of the most anthologised in the English literary canon , [ 1 ] and has been the subject of both literary criticism and many adaptations, including various ...

  9. Night (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Night" is a poem in the illuminated 1789 collection Songs of Innocence by William Blake, later incorporated into the larger compilation Songs of Innocence and of Experience. "Night" speaks about the coming of evil when darkness arrives, as angels protect and keep the sheep from the impending dangers.