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The poem has been compared to passages from the philosophy of Thomas Carlyle, a longtime friend and confidante of Tennyson's. [2]British Nonconformist divine Robert Forman Horton wrote that while "some of the older theologians" suspected Tennyson of literal pantheism, "The Higher Pantheism" "does not say that the All (Pan) is God, but that the All is a shadow of God whom we are at present too ...
The pattern for the number of stresses in this poem is 3-3-4-4-4-3. Flow-er in the cran-nied wall, I pluck you out of the cran-nies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flow-er—but if I could un-der-stand. What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. The poem also follows an ABCCAB rhyme scheme.
An alternative meaning, however, is that a non-corporeal God cannot lift anything, but can raise it (a linguistic pedantry)—or to use the beliefs of Hindus (that there is one God, who can be manifest as several different beings) [citation needed] that whilst it is possible for God to do all things, it is not possible for all his incarnations ...
“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 ...
They meet the god, who is in the form of a sphere floating above a plane, in space. Yiyi is almost killed by the god, but the poems he has catch the god's interest. After reading a few of the poems, the god almost kills Yiyi again, but is again interested in him after he says that poetry is an unsurpassable art form.
Hyperion, a Fragment is an abandoned epic poem by 19th-century English Romantic poet John Keats. It was published in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). [1] It is based on the Titanomachia, and tells of the despair of the Titans after their fall to the Olympians. Keats wrote the poem from late 1818 until the spring of ...
"On Another's Sorrow" is a poem by the English poet William Blake. The poem discusses human and divine empathy and compassion. It was published as part of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1789 as the last song in the Songs of Innocence section. Blake argues that human sympathy is a valuable trait.
Answering a reader's question about the poem in 1879, Longfellow himself summarized that the poem was "a transcript of my thoughts and feelings at the time I wrote, and of the conviction therein expressed, that Life is something more than an idle dream." [13] Richard Henry Stoddard referred to the theme of the poem as a "lesson of endurance". [14]