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From 1845 onward, the poem bore the current title. Manuscript title: "The Affliction of Mary—of—" "Where art thou, my beloved Son," Poems founded on the Affections: 1807 The Forsaken 1804 "The peace which other seek they find;" Poems founded on the Affections: 1842 Repentance. 1804 A Pastoral Ballad "The fields which with covetous spirit we ...
Browning's poem inspired singer-songwriter Clifford T Ward in his sentimental 1973 song "Home Thoughts from Abroad", which also makes reference to other romantic poets John Keats and William Wordsworth. [5] In 1995, Browning's "Home Thoughts from Abroad" was voted 46th in a BBC poll to find the United Kingdom's favourite poems. [6]
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2 ] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
The poem contains other allusions to Hindu scripture, such as the appearance of the sacred river Ganges called by its traditional name in the line "Ganga was sunken", and it can be read as an allegory similar to themes found in the Vedas where drought or sterility is caused by an evil force. In this reading the poet takes the role of a priest ...
The poem follows the life of a Turco-Mongol conqueror historically known as Tamerlane. The name is a Latinized version of "Timur Lenk", the 14th-century warlord who founded the Timurid Empire, though the poem is not a historical depiction of his life. Tamerlane ignores the young love he has for a peasant in order to achieve power.
The lines relating to the "Peace" refer to the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. [2] The poem is dedicated to Lord Lansdowne, who was then in high reputation and influence among the Tories. [2] Johnson remarks that this poem was written after the model of Denham's Cooper's Hill, with, perhaps, an eye on Waller's poem On St. James's Park. [2]
The assembled horde go down by Bridewell (the women's prison) between 11:00 am and 12:00 pm, when the women prisoners are being whipped, and go "To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams/ Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames" (II 259-260 [13]). At the time, the River Fleet was the city's sewer outlet, where all of the gutters of ...
Other writers use the poem as a form, much like a sonnet, and create their own words for it as in "Strunklemiss" by Shay K. Azoulay [54] or the poem "Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly" recited by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1979 book which contains numerous other references and homages to Carroll's work.