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"Cold Iron" begins with Baron realizing that war (cold iron) is the gift or metal of man. The second stanza implies that the Baron believes force is how one gets what they want. The third stanza implies the foolishness of the Baron. The Baron rebels against the King, but is captured. However, the King shows him mercy.
Francis Grose's 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue defines cold iron as "A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing." This usage often appears as "cold steel" in modern parlance. Rudyard Kipling's poem "Cold Iron", found in his 1910 collection of stories Rewards and Fairies, used the term poetically to mean "weapon".
Coldiron or cold iron or cold Fe may refer to: Cold iron, historically believed to repel ghosts, fairies, and other supernatural creatures "Cold Iron" (poem), a 1910 poem by Rudyard Kipling; Cold Iron, 2018; Cold ironing, the process of providing shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth "Cold Irons Bound", a 1997 song by Bob Dylan
Gambanteinn, appears in two poems in the Poetic Edda. (Norse mythology) Gríðarvölr, a magical staff given to Thor by Gríðr so he could kill the giant Geirröd. (Norse mythology) Nehushtan, a staff of bronze made by Moses to erect so that the Israelites who saw it would be protected from dying from the bites of the "fiery serpents".
Anne Coldiron (who writes under the name A. E. B. Coldiron) is an American humanities scholar, ... Canon, Period, and the Poetry of Charles of Orleans: ...
John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
1913 Macmillan 'Dominions' edition. Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The title comes from the poem "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies" by Richard Corbet, [1] which was referred to by the children in the first story of Kipling's earlier book Puck of Pook's Hill.
Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope, these contractions are usually used to lower the number of syllables in a particular word in order to adhere to the meter of a composition. [1]