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The poem explores the memory of the speaker and their experiences in a faraway city they spent time in as a child. The narrator reminisces about the place through their childhood eyes, although we see conflict between this and their adult perception of her homeland. The narrator pictures in their mind the country or city where (s)he was born. [2]
Groucho Marx claimed "My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty Days Hath September...', because it actually means something." [ 10 ] On the other hand, the unhelpfulness of such an involved mnemonic has been mocked, as in the early-20th-century parody "Thirty days hath September / But all the rest I can't remember."
In 1938, just days after Kristallnacht, two German Jewish brothers emigrate to Shanghai to escape mounting antisemitism in Germany. One of the brothers, Otto, is a rabbinical student who desires to keep his Jewish traditions.
They include poetry, health advice, astrological information, calendars, and religious instructions. [3] The latter provide the bulk of the material in the Kalender, [ 3 ] and were designed to provide instruction in Christian belief and practice for lay people.
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The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems. There was also a section of prose pieces, which could have been studied in schools ...
The speaker in the poem concludes by stating that the blooming English buttercups will be brighter than the "gaudy melon-flower" seen growing in Italy. [2] The poem is in two stanzas. The first stanza has an irregular metre consisting of alternating trimeter, tetrameter and pentameter lines and a final trimeter line, with an ABABCCDD rhyming ...
The following is the list of 244 poems attributed to Philip Larkin. Untitled poems are identified by their first lines and marked with an ellipsis.Completion dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format, and are tagged "(best known date)" if the date is not definitive.