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First page from the 1816 collection The Prisoner of Chillon. "Darkness" is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816 on the theme of an apocalyptic end of the world which was published as part of the 1816 The Prisoner of Chillon collection.
The poem argued that a poet should not be excessive or irresponsible in behaviour and contains a sense of assurance that is not found within the original four stanzas. Instead, there is a search for such a feeling but the poem ends without certainty, which relates the ode to Coleridge's poem Dejection: An Ode. [36]
Dark Romanticism is a literary sub-genre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothic fiction , it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic movement ever since its 18th-century beginnings.
G. K. Chesterton, in his poem "The Logical Vegetarian", uses "I am silent on a bally peak in Darien" to mock vegetarian grandiosity. [24] In the second volume of Richard Dawkins's autobiography, Brief Candle in the Dark, he alludes to the poem in chapter three, "Lore of the Jungle", when he describes going mountain climbing in Panama (p. 43).
Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Neoclassical ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.
In the earlier poem, a young chimney sweeper recounts a dream by one of his fellows, in which an angel rescues the boys from coffins and takes them to a sunny meadow; in the later poem, an apparently adult speaker encounters a child chimney sweeper abandoned in the snow while his parents are at church or possibly even suffered death where ...
What we learned by rereading Joan Didion's ruthlessly honest "Goodbye to All That," the quintessential essay about leaving New York.
"In a Station of the Metro" is an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in April 1913 [1] in the literary magazine Poetry. [2] In the poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912; he suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an "equation".