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Adds a block quotation. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status text text 1 quote The text to quote Content required char char The character being quoted Example Alice Content suggested sign sign 2 cite author The person being quoted Example Lewis Carroll Content suggested title title 3 The title of the poem being quoted Example Jabberwocky Content suggested ...
The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage" is often quoted. Lovelace wrote the poem while imprisoned in Gatehouse Prison adjoining Westminster Abbey due to his effort to have the Clergy Act 1640 annulled.
An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.
The poem does not have a deep, hidden, symbolic meaning. Rather, it is simply pleasurable to read, say, and hear. Critical terminology becomes useful when one attempts to account for why the language is pleasurable, and how Byron achieved this effect. The lines are not simply rhythmic: the rhythm is regular within a line, and is the same for ...
Show, don't tell is a narrative technique used in various kinds of texts to allow the reader to experience the story through actions, words, subtext, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than through the author's exposition, summarization, and description. [1]
"September 1913" functions also as an iconic example of Yeats's own fidelity to the literary traditions of the 19th century British Romantic poets. A devoted reader of both William Blake and Percy Shelley , Yeats's repetition of the phrase "Romantic Ireland" connects the politically motivated ideals of the Romantics "to an Irish national ...
In Bill Gates' new autobiography, "Source Code: My Beginnings" (published February 4 by Knopf), the computer pioneer and philanthropist writes of his formative years, and the experiences that led ...
While some writers prefer to set off two-line quotations as a block quotation for emphasis, it is not advisable for Wikipedia. Example: "Eliot began his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock with an unexpected simile: "Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table".