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The Graveyard School is an indefinite literary grouping that binds together a wide variety of authors; what makes a poem a "graveyard" poem remains open to critical dispute. At its narrowest, the term "Graveyard School" refers to four poems: Thomas Gray's " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ", Thomas Parnell's "Night-Piece on Death", Robert ...
Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain. 1791–1794 "A traveller on the skirt of Sarum's Plain" Juvenile Pieces ; Poems Written in Youth; Distinct Class (with Descriptive sketches) (1836–); Poems of Early and Late Years: 1798 Female Vagrant 1791–1794 " 'By Derwent's side my father dwelt—a man"
The clod in this poem represents innocence. Its view of love is, according to Joseph Heffner, full of "childlike innocence." The choice of a clod of clay to represent this innocent view of love is significant because it is soft, and this view point is easily squished by life, or in this poem the foot of a cow. [ 2 ]
The Proletarian poetry is a genre of political poetry developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that endeavored to portray class-conscious perspectives of the working-class. [64] Connected through their mutual political message that may be either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist , the poems are often aesthetically disparate.
Stichic: a poem composed of lines of the same approximate meter and length, not broken into stanzas. Syllabic: a poem whose meter is determined by the total number of syllables per line, rather than the number of stresses. Tanka: a Japanese form of five lines with 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables—31 in all.
Songs of Experience is a collection of 26 poems forming the second part of Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry). Some of the poems, such as "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found", were moved by Blake to Songs of Innocence and were frequently moved between the two books. [note 1]
[2] [3] The song describes the Christian doctrine of grace and justification by faith articulated in Paul's Letter to the Romans in Romans 5:1-2 and 14-16. [4] The last line of the refrain, "Grace that is greater than all our sin!", and also the second line of the first verse, "Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt!", both reflect Romans 5 ...
In accentual verse, often used in English, a dactyl is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables—the opposite is the anapaest (two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable). [ 2 ] An example of dactylic meter is the first line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's epic poem Evangeline (1847), which is in dactylic hexameter :