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Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember". She also wrote the words of two Christmas carols well known in Britain: " In the Bleak Midwinter ", later set by Gustav Holst , Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold ...
Taking up this relatively short episode, Sri Aurobindo develops it into an epic poem of nearly 24000 lines with 12 Books and 49 Cantos. Thus, the original tale of conjugal fidelity is changed into a story of human liberation from Ignorance, Unconsciousness and Death through the divine grace descending on Earth in the form of Savitri.
This poem marks the introduction into an English context of the classical pastoral, a mode of poetry that assumes an aristocratic audience with a certain kind of attitude to the land and peasants. The explorations of love found in the sonnets of William Shakespeare and the poetry of Walter Raleigh and others also implies a courtly audience.
The framing device is the narrator having a dream. In this dream or vision he is speaking to the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. The poem itself is divided up into three separate sections: the first part (lines 1–27), the second part (lines 28–121) and the third part (lines 122–156). [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 October 2024. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Poem by Walt Whitman on the death of Abraham Lincoln "Oh Captain, My Captain" redirects here. For the Grimm episode, see Oh Captain, My Captain (Grimm). For the Shameless episode, see O Captain, My Captain (Shameless). O Captain! My Captain ...
An aerial photograph marks different data and information about the covered area and the airplane's position and condition. [2] These details are measured and noted by the data panel which includes different devices and instruments for the specific measurements. [2] Figure 8 shows the general format of a vertical aerial photograph.
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 ...
The digressions can be divided into four groups, namely the Scyld narrative at the start; [40] many descriptions of the Geats, including the Swedish–Geatish wars, [41] the "Lay of the Last Survivor" [42] in the style of another Old English poem, "The Wanderer", and Beowulf's dealings with the Geats such as his verbal contest with Unferth and ...