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The speaker in poems 2 and 4 is presumed to be Sulpicia. In poem 3, there is also ambiguity about the speaker who addresses Cerinthus, whether it is the god Apollo or the poet. The cycle of poems is constructed in a symmetrical way. [2] In the first poem, Sulpicia adorns herself for Mars, in the last she adorns herself for Juno.
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"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death.
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"The Husband's Message" is an anonymous Old English poem, 53 lines long [1] and found only on folio 123 of the Exeter Book.The poem is cast as the private address of an unknown first-person speaker to a wife, challenging the reader to discover the speaker's identity and the nature of the conversation, the mystery of which is enhanced by a burn-hole at the beginning of the poem.
First edition (publ. Knopf) The Cinnamon Peeler is an erotic poem by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje.The poem is about love, but also about writing. The speaker of the poem travels through vastly different temporalities, wishing for different outcomes in a subjunctive past, and settling on the hope given to him as he is in dialogue with his memory.
An expanded collection of the same name, with eleven additional poems, appeared in 1921. This was published in the US under the title Saturday Market. The title poem in the collection, "The Farmer's Bride", had initially appeared in The Nation in 1912. The poem is a poignant lament by an inarticulate farmer about his love for his young wife and ...
Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author.