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Robert Seymour Bridges OM (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was a British poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life.
Adil Jehangir Jussawalla (born 8 April 1940, Mumbai) is an Indian poet, [1] [2] magazine editor and translator. [3] He has written two books of poetry, Land's End and Missing Person.
Good-Bye to All That is an autobiography by Robert Graves which first appeared in 1929, when the author was 34 years old. "It was my bitter leave-taking of England," he wrote in a prologue to the revised second edition of 1957, "where I had recently broken a good many conventions". [1]
The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.
"A Man's a Man for A' That" is a song by Scottish poet Robert Burns, famous for its expression of egalitarianism. The song made its first appearance in a letter Burns wrote to George Thomson in January 1795. It was subsequently published anonymously in the August edition of the Glasgow Magazine, a radical monthly. [1]
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The ballad is told first from the man's perspective, and then from the woman's. In the first part, the sailor explains to his lover that he must leave for the seas, and that sailors must endure the dangers of the waters, but he will remain true to her. He asks her to pray for him and to keep loving him.
In other countries, leaving without saying goodbye is known as a "French exit," "Polish exit," or "leaving the English way." Regardless of the term's birthplace, the Irish exit continues to raise ...