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The word within a word, unable to speak a word, Swaddled with darkness. James Longenbach argues that these lines show that Gerontion is unable to extract the spiritual meaning of the Biblical text because he is unable to understand words in a spiritual sense: "Gerontion's words have no metaphysical buttressing, and his language is studded with ...
The poem was initially published in The Irish Times on 8 September 1913, under the title "Romance in Ireland (On reading much of the correspondence against the Art Gallery)". It was later included in the pamphlet Nine Poems and the collection Responsibilities (both 1914) as "Romantic Ireland". The poem has been known by its current title only ...
Live to fight another day (This saying comes from an English proverbial rhyme, "He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day") Loose lips sink ships; Look before you leap; Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591) Love of money is the root of all evil [16] Love makes the world go around
In 1971, Les Crane used a spoken-word recording of the poem as the lead track of his album Desiderata. [20] His producers had assumed that the poem was too old to be copyrighted, but the publicity surrounding the record led to clarification of Ehrmann's authorship and the eventual payment of royalties.
The poem was first performed at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955. [14] Ginsberg had not originally intended the poem for performance. The reading was conceived by Wally Hedrick—a painter and co-founder of the Six—who approached Ginsberg in mid-1955 and asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery.
Inflation got high for years in the 1970s and '80s because inflation expectations were "unanchored," historians think. One way the anchor gets loose is when people keep talking about how bad ...
The poem is written in rhymed stanzas and gives the account of a crewman who was washed overboard during a storm. The poem is based on George Anson 's Voyage around the World after Cowper read an account [ 1 ] which told of one of the men being washed overboard and the horror that his shipmates felt as they watched him without being able to ...
To be sure, headline inflation has come down over the past year. In October, the U.S. consumer price index saw an annual increase of 3.2%, down from its peak 9.1% increase in June 2022.