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A Treatise on Stars is a 2020 poetry collection by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, published by New Directions Publishing. [1] Her fourteenth book of poems, it was nominated for several awards and won the Bollingen Prize in 2021.
Bing Xin uses the images of natural elements like water, fire, "sand" [12] and "rocks". [12] She perceives the beauty of nature and positively describes natural elements with terms like "blossoming" [13] and "beautiful". [14] Celestial objects like the moon, the sun and the stars are wrote in poems with words like "clouds", "sky" and "earth". [15]
Running at 392 lines in its unabridged version, the work alternates iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. This is an old pattern in Romanian poetry, previously observed in Dosoftei's preamble to Erofili, [17] and is described by critic Alex Ștefănescu as "lapidary, enunciative, solemn in its simplicity."
The Ideal Love is often the purest form of love in that the love is pure because it is pure love; there is no game, or flaws to it. The Ideal Love is simply love, purely innocent and true love. Johnson states that "The Lilly who delights in love is another manifestation of the 'sweet flower' offered to the Rose lover in the first poem on his ...
The rose always was, and is, and will be forever on the "Rood of Time. The poem is settled in the rose, to the point that the poem’s tone is one of sweet, suffering melancholy, a tone that is reaching for the sublime. In the 1890s, says Stephen Coote, Yeats was concerned for the "spiritual regeneration of his people": he felt that a spiritual ...
"Roses Are Red" is a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day , and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [ 2 ]
The first two stanzas of the poem are written in a loose anapestic trimeter and rhyme acbc. [2] The third stanza begins in the same way, but the last two lines of this stanza make a sharp break with the form of the preceding stanzas. These concluding lines are written in tetrameter rather than trimeter, and they fail to maintain the acbc rhyme ...
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