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"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
Among all lovely things my Love had been; I travell'd among unknown Men; Ode to Duty; POEMS, COMPOSED DURING A TOUR, CHIEFLY ON FOOT. 1. Beggars; 2. To a Sky-Lark; 3. With how sad Steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the Sky; 4. Alice Fell; 5. Resolution and Independence; SONNETS Prefatory Sonnet; PART THE FIRST—MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. 1. 2. 3.
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also sometimes called "Daffodils" [2]) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. [3] It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy , when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District . [ 4 ]
The repeated phrase "come near" has the feel of an incantation: the rose's proximity, so close, and yet leaving a space large enough for "the rose-breath to fill", contributes to the feeling of being on the verge of the divine (line 14). The lack of complete and utter communion with the rose gives the poem an air of sweet suffering that seems ...
However despite the troubled mood of the narrator, it is the "sweet love" remembered that keeps his spirts up. [9] Camille Paglia states that there is nothing in the poem that would provide a clue as to whether the poem is directed towards a man or a woman, but assumes, as many do, that Sonnet 29 was written about the young man. [10]
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. In the poem, the speaker narrates a night time ride to the cottage of his beloved Lucy , who always looks as "fresh as a rose in June". The speaker begins by saying that he has experienced "strange fits of passion" and will recount them only to another lover ("in the Lover's ear ...
[a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line. It is one of Sappho's most famous poems, describing her love for a young woman. Fragment 31 has been the subject of numerous translations and adaptations from ancient times to the present day.
The song was covered by Wings during their 1975–1976 Wings Over The World tour (available on the 1976 album Wings Over America). Denny Laine sang lead. In the version released on Wings Over America, during the first chorus line Laine (jokingly) substitutes John Denver's name for Richard Cory's, thus inciting a roar of laughter and applause from the audience.