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However, by prefacing the phrase with “one would have to” (be versed in country things), Frost keeps his narrator from sounding like a chastising know-it-all. Frost allows for the “strong impulse (and a traditional poetic one all the way back through pastoral poetry) to believe that the birds are responsively grieving at the spectacle of ...
My Country : Australian Poetry and Short Stories, Two Hundred Years edited by Leonie Kramer, Lansdowne, 1985 [13] The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse edited by Les Murray, Oxford University Press, 1986 [14] Two Centuries of Australian Poetry edited by Mark O’Connor, Oxford University Press, 1988 [15]
Holograph manuscript of Gray's "Stanzas Wrote in a Country Church-Yard". The poem most likely originated in the poetry that Gray composed in 1742. William Mason, in Memoirs, discussed his friend Gray and the origins of Elegy: "I am inclined to believe that the Elegy in a Country Church-yard was begun, if not concluded, at this time [August 1742] also: Though I am aware that as it stands at ...
“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle, and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” — George William Curtis
Mackellar's notebook with first two verses "My Country" is a poem written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 about her love of the Australian landscape. . After travelling through Europe extensively with her father during her teenage years, she started writing the poem in London in 1904 [1] and re-wrote it several times before her return to S
"The Never-Never Country" (1901) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson. [1] It is also known by the title "The Never-Never Land". It was originally published in the writer's collection Joe Wilson and His Mates and subsequently reprinted in several of the author's other collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
"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 ...
Haiku (俳句, listen ⓘ) is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 morae (called on in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; [ 1 ] that include a kireji , or "cutting word"; [ 2 ] and a kigo , or seasonal reference.