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The poem can also be read as one of Stevens's many commentaries on the relation of imagination to reality: the poet's previously written line about the belle undressing (the imagination's formulation) contrasts with the actual scene portrayed in the first part of the poem. To the imagination the color of a tree is easily transformed.
The golden line according to Anne Mahoney's Overview of Latin Syntax, (note that one of her examples of the golden line is a line with a noun in the genitive instead of an adjective) Uni-Koeln.de , an article suggesting that the golden line is from Greek Hellenistic poetry, J.D. Reed, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 106 (1995) 94–95
An anthology of prose and poetry, Glass Jars Among Trees, which she co-edited with Alan Finlay, was published by Jacana Media in 2003. She received the 2009 Dalro Award for poetry. Her debut collection of short stories, The Thin Line, was published by Modjaji Books in 2010. [1] It was long-listed for the Wole Soyinka Award in 2012.
Some forms are strictly defined, with required line counts and rhyming patterns, such as the sonnet (mostly made of a 14-line poem with a defined rhyme scheme) or limerick (usually a 5-line free rhyme poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme). Such poems exhibit closed form, meaning they have strict rules regarding their structure and length. [7]
The title comes from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from the collection Barrack-Room Ballads, in which Kipling describes foot soldiers as "the thin red line of 'eroes". Kipling's poem is based on the 1854 action of British soldiers during the Crimean War called The Thin Red Line (Battle of Balaclava).
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [ 1 ] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry .
A line from the poem inspired the title and themes in Stops of Various Quills, an 1895 poetry collection by William Dean Howells. [31] Similarly, it is from a line in "Lycidas" that Thomas Wolfe took the name of his novel Look Homeward, Angel: Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth: And, O ye Dolphins', waft the hapless youth. (163–164)
The poem is transmitted in several differing versions: in the Egerton manuscript, [4] in the Devonshire manuscript [5] beneath the line "Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus" (from Horace's Ode III 26), and in print in Tottel's Miscellany (1557) under the title "The louer sheweth how he is forsaken of such as he somtime enioyed". [6