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"Journey of the Magi" is a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed for a series of 38 pamphlets by several authors collectively titled the Ariel Poems and released by the British publishing house Faber and Gwyer (later Faber and Faber).
Poems based on Homer's works were the only influenced by traditional classic Greek works that he included in his Poems 1905–1915. He based several poems on Homer's Iliad, but "Ithaca" is the only one he drew from the Odyssey. [4] The poem describes Odysseus's journey home after the end of the Trojan War. Cavafy describes Odysseus seeing ...
Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...
The poem describes the journey of a "gallant knight" in search of the legendary El Dorado.The knight spends much of his life on this quest.In his old age, he finally meets a "pilgrim shadow" who points the way through "the Valley of Shadow".
Poems by Julius Caesar are mentioned by several sources in antiquity. [1] None are extant. Plutarch says that verse compositions were among the entertainments Caesar offered the Cilician pirates who captured him as a young man in 75 BC. [2] Pliny places "the divine Julius" on his list of serious men who wrote not-so-serious poems. [3]
The first poem that Eliot wrote, "The Journey of the Magi", was released as the eighth in the series in August 1927. [2] For the second, "A Song for Simeon", Eliot turned to an event at the end of Nativity narrative in the Gospel of Luke .
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Journey consists of a series of short essays, often autobiographical, along with two poems, and has been called one of Angelou's "wisdom books". [1] It is titled after a lyric in the African American spiritual, "On My Journey Now." [2] At the time of its publication, Angelou was already well respected and popular as a writer and poet.