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"Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read slowly, at a rate of two words per second, to match with the cadence, or rhythm of a foot soldier marching.
In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "rebuffed the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine epiphany. Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote". [2]
Carr was one of nine siblings. Her father was an attorney that taught in his younger days. He used to read to her and her siblings on winter evenings. The poems her father read to her made her enjoy the rhythm and music in poetry. After her father died, she found a poem she was struggling to write as a child.
Do not shut/lock the stable door after the horse has bolted; Do not spend it all in one place; Do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar; Do not throw pearls to swine; Do not teach your Grandmother to suck eggs; Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater; Do not try to walk before you can crawl; Do not upset the apple-cart
"The Wind" is cast in a form closely associated with Dafydd, the poem in which a messenger or llatai, usually a bird or animal, is sent to the poet's lover. [17] It is a good example of how Dafydd's works in this form can include a close and warmly-appreciative description of a llatai , even when, as is often the case in Dafydd's poems, he is ...
When the wind is blowing in the South It brings the food over the fish's mouth, When the wind is blowing in the West, That is when the fishing's best! In western European seas, this description of wind direction is an excellent illustration of how the weather events of an active low pressure area [12] present themselves. With the approach of a ...
The poem is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantastical experience in which a silver trout he had caught and laid on the floor turned into a "glimmering girl" who called him by his name, then vanished; he became infatuated with her, and remains devoted to finding her again.
"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 ...