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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 in audio on Poetry Foundation
Other poems apparently alluding to the "midnight poem" include Elizabeth Bishop's "Insomnia" – whose first line fits the meter used in the Greek fragment, and which shares setting and tone with it – and H.D.'s "Night", which is thematically linked with the poem, also concerned with the passage of time and isolation. [39]
AFTER MIDNIGHT: The first word of each theme answer can be placed AFTER the word MIDNIGHT to form a new phrase: MIDNIGHT MASS, MIDNIGHT SNACK, and MIDNIGHT OIL.
Soon after, the poem was published in a small work containing his other poems Frost at Midnight and Fears in Solitude under the title France: An Ode to sound more neutral. [3] The poems were published in order with Fears in Solitude first and Frost at Midnight last to position the public poem, France: An Ode, in between two conversation poems. [4]
First instance of the poem, within Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in German Second instance of the poem, within Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in German. Zarathustra's roundelay (German: Zarathustra's Rundgesang), [1] also called the Midnight Song (Mitternachts-Lied [2]) or Once More (German: Noch ein Mal), [3] is a poem in the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The Raven and Other Poems, Wiley and Putnam, New York, 1845. Poe first brought "The Raven" to his friend and former employer George Rex Graham of Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia. Graham declined the poem, which may not have been in its final version, though he gave Poe $15 (equivalent to $491 in 2023) as charity. [31]
These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech. The first verse of Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky " illustrates this nonsense technique, despite Humpty Dumpty 's later clear explanation of some of the unclear words within it:
The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St ...