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"Fire and Ice" is a short poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It was first published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine [1] and was later published in Frost's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning book New Hampshire. "Fire and Ice" is one of Frost ...
Nevertheless, the last line of his poem "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" famously reads, "I have wasted my life." [4] Technically, Wright was an innovator, especially in the use of his titles, first lines, and last lines, which he used to great dramatic effect in defense of the lives of the disenfranchised.
"A point of life between my Parents' dust," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle 1833 "Thou look'st upon me, and dost fondly think," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Nun's Well, Brigham 1833
It is one of novelist David Mitchell's favorite pieces of writing. [10] The poem's final line has been hailed as one of the greatest lines in modern poetry. [2] [1] [3] [6] Although there were degrees of polarization about the line's abrasiveness, it has been credited as influential in the development of deep image and modernist poetry. [11]
[25] The poem was first set to be published on April 28, 1849 in the journal Flag of our Union, which Poe said was a "paper for which sheer necessity compels me to write." Fearing its publication there would consign it "to the tomb of the Capulets," he sent it to Nathaniel Parker Willis for publication in the Home Journal on the same day as ...
1950 (best known date) Collected Poems 1988: Spring: 1950-05-19: The Less Deceived: Spring Warning: 1940–04 (best known date) Collected Poems 1988: A Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb: 1943-06 (best known date) Collected Poems 2003: Story: 1941-02-13: Collected Poems 2003: Strangers: 1950-05-20: Collected Poems 1988: Street Lamps: 1939-09 (best ...
" Weave in, weave in, my hardy life," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXII. From Noon to Starry Night) ; The Patriotic Poems II (Poems of After-War) What Am I After All " What am I after all but a child, pleas’d with the sound of my own" Leaves of Grass (Book XXIV. Autumn Rivulets) What Best I See in Thee" What best I see in thee," The Patriotic Poems ...
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...