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The poem begins with a moment of quiet introspection, which is reflected in the soft sounds of w's and th's, as well as double ll's. In the second stanza, harder sounds — like k and qu — begin to break the whisper. As the narrator's thought is disrupted by the horse in the third stanza, a hard g is used. [5]
The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel, 1871 "Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
A young poet encounters a cowboy in a local bar and is struck by his thin, worn appearance from years of hard work. Sensing the cowboy has words of inspiration to share, the poet approaches the cowboy, who responds that the only good things in life are "faster horses, younger women, older whiskey and more money."
Like many of Muldoon's recent collections, Horse Latitudes contains a long poem – in this case a sonnet sequence ostensibly describing battle scenes through time and place. The collection also features several other characteristic features of Muldoon's work, such as fixed poetic forms and deft technique combined with a seemingly casual ...
The Old Whim Horse is a poem by Australian writer and poet Edward Dyson. It was first published in The Bulletin magazine on 30 July 1892, [ 1 ] and later in the poet's collection Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines (1896).
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
To a Butterfly (first poem) 1802, 14 March "Stay near me---do not take thy flight!" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. 1807 The Emigrant Mother 1802, 16 and 17 March "Once in a lonely hamlet I sojourned" Poems founded on the Affection 1807 My heart leaps up when I behold: 1802, 26 March "My heart leaps up when I behold"
The ocean said to me once; The livid lightnings flashed in the clouds; And you love me; Love walked alone; I walked in a desert; There came whisperings in the winds; I was in the darkness; Tradition, thou art for suckling children; Many red devils ran from my heart "Think as I think," said a man; Once there was a man; I stood musing in a black ...