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The poem remains abstract as the process of remembering becomes the drama. [20] About halfway through the sonnet, the speaker changes the tone. Instead ending with a joyous tone as if reminiscing about the dear friend produces restoration and gain, not loss.
The poem is a reminiscence of time spent with a former lover and a kiss beneath a plum tree remembered only because of the memory of a passing white cloud. The poem's first stanza was read voice-over in the Oscar-winning 2006 German film The Lives of Others ( Das Leben der Anderen ), by the character of Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler (played by ...
Leaves of Grass (Book XXXII. From Noon to Starry Night) ; The Patriotic Poems III (Poems of America) Facing West from California's Shores " Facing west from California's shores," Leaves of Grass (Book IV. Children of Adam.) 1860 Fanices at Navesink " Steaming the northern rapids—(an old St. Lawrence reminiscence," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV.
Kaisarion (Greek: Καισαρίων) is a Greek poem by Constantine P. Cavafy. It was written in December 1914, with the original title being "Of the Ptolemy Caesar." It was published four years later in 1918. The poem refers to the historical figure Kaisarion (also known as Ptolemy XV Caesar), the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
A Death-Scene; A Little While; Come hither child; Remembrance; Day Dream; F. De Samara to A. G. A. Hope (ballad); How Clear She Shines; Heavy hangs the raindrop; Lines
3. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” — Maya Angelou 4. “Life is pleasant, death is peaceful.
Poems. Privately printed at Yale University Press, New Haven, pp 109–116. The poem is translated in its entirety in this collection. A post-Pound publication. Spaeth, John Duncan (1921), Early English Poems, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 68– 71. The poem is explained as a dialogue between The Old Sailor and Youth, and ends at ...
The speaker of the poem describes the gruesome effects of the gas on the man, and concludes that anyone who sees the reality of war at first hand would not repeat mendacious platitudes such as dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: "How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country". Owen himself was a soldier who served on the front line ...