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Twitter user Ronnie Joyce came across the poem above on the wall of a bar in London, England. While at first the text seems dreary and depressing, the poem actually has a really beautiful message.
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt; Better wear out than rust out; Beware of Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan War, Virgil in the Aeneid) [9] Big fish eat little fish; Birds of a feather ...
The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come together" [6] "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks" means that it is pointless to worry about things that will never happen. [7]
The poem may also have been inspired by the legends of the Wandering Jew, who was forced to wander the earth until Judgement Day for a terrible crime, found in Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, M. G. Lewis' The Monk (a 1796 novel Coleridge reviewed), and the legend of the Flying Dutchman.
The poem encourages us not to miss the world’s deliciousness: “Quiet’s cool flesh—/let’s sniff and eat it./There are ways/to make of the moment/a topiary/so the pleasure’s in/walking ...
The poem is settled in the rose, to the point that the poem’s tone is one of sweet, suffering melancholy, a tone that is reaching for the sublime. In the 1890s, says Stephen Coote, Yeats was concerned for the "spiritual regeneration of his people": he felt that a spiritual posture of awe, a posture taken before those things that were ...
It will help if I can keep him out of the wrong pigeon-holes". 19-20 He then quoted in full one poem, "The Fabulists" (1914-1918), [Note 1] which he said showed Kipling's integrity of purpose and which he thought would have more effect in the essay than in the body of the book. 21-22
Or "such is life". Indicates that a circumstance, whether good or bad, is an inherent aspect of living. sic vos non vobis mellificates apes: Thus you not for yourselves make honey, bees. Part of a verse written by Virgil after the poet Bathyllus plagiarized his work. sidere mens eadem mutato: Though the constellations change, the mind is universal