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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]
"Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred") [2] is a poem by Langston Hughes. These eleven lines ask, "What happens to a dream deferred?", providing reference to the African-American experience. It was published as part of a longer volume-length poem suite in 1951 called Montage of a Dream Deferred , but is often excerpted from the larger work.
Emetics make us sick through vomit ("sicken"), so that we might avoid ailments ("shun sickness"). The second quatrain applies the principles of the first: "being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness, / To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;" "ne'er" firstly means never, as in the poet is never sated by the youth's sweetness.
"The Wind" shows great inventiveness in its choice of metaphors and similes, while employing extreme metrical complexity. [9] It is one of the classic examples [10] [11] of the use of what has been called "a guessing game technique" [12] or "riddling", [13] a technique known in Welsh as dyfalu, comprising the stringing together of imaginative and hyperbolic similes and metaphors.
Unbeaten by the wind Bested by neither snow nor summer heat Strong of body Free of desire Never angry Always smiling quietly Dining daily on four cups of brown rice Some miso and a few vegetables Observing all things Leaving myself out of account But remembering well Living in a small, thatched-roof house In the meadow beneath a canopy of pines
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? “The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919 , first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer . [ 1 ]
Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz are tied for second, with three each. Sunset Boulevard , A Streetcar Named Desire , The Graduate , and Jerry Maguire each have two quotes. Rick Blaine ( Casablanca ) is the character with the most quotes (four); Dorothy Gale ( The Wizard of Oz ), Harry Callahan ( Dirty Harry and Sudden Impact ), James ...
The poet's attitude—towards the wind has changed: in the first canto the wind has been an "enchanter" (3), now the wind has become an "incantation" (65). And there is another contrast between the two last cantos: in the fourth canto the poet had articulated himself in singular: "a leaf" (43, 53), "a cloud" (44, 53), "A wave" (45, 53) and "One ...