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The poem's opening lines are renowned for their evocation of patriotic nostalgia: [3] Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there Browning makes sentimental references to the flora of an English springtime , including brushwood , elm trees and pear tree blossom and to the sound of birdsong from chaffinches , whitethroats , swallows and ...
Wordsworth's voice slowly disappears from the poems as they progress, and his voice is entirely absent from the fifth poem. His love operates on the subconscious level, and he relates to Lucy more as a spirit of nature than as a human being. [41] The poet's grief is private, and he is unable to fully explain its source. [42]
Susanna Rustin writing in The Financial Times is unimpressed: "I was disappointed by this first collection of short stories. As a title, Love of Fat Men was a curious choice, since maternity and pregnancy are the recurring subjects. Dunmore writes well of the intensity and ambivalence of relationships between children and parents.
Romantic poetry was attracted to nostalgia, and medievalism is another important characteristic of romantic poetry, especially in the works of John Keats, for example, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, and Coleridge. [citation needed] They were attracted to exotic, remote and obscure places, and so they were more attracted to Middle Ages than to their ...
The poems satisfy our nostalgia for the past, yet themselves have none. They are reports . . . of our world's old war between power and love, between those who efficiently and practically know and those who are "content to feel/ What others understand." And these reports of battles are, somehow, bewitching . . .
It also introduces two enduring themes in his work – his love of his native sea and nostalgia for his childhood. The poems in this sequence are nearly all written in lines of irregular length and irregular assonances and derive most obviously from the cancionero tradition. La amante (1925) and El alba del alhelí (1926) followed in quick ...
Marína is the name of a Slovak romantic poem by Andrej Sládkovič (Andrej Braxatoris) written in 1844 and published 2 years later in 1846 in Pest. It is his most significant poem, also translated to German, Polish, Hungarian and French. [1] Marína has 291 stanzas and 2900 lines. It is the longest love poem in the world. [2]
For his love he suffered this sentence. Similarly, where is the Queen Who ordered that Buridan Be thrown in a sack into the Seine? Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear! The queen white as a lily Who sang with a Siren's voice; Bertha Broadfoot, Beatrice, Aélis; Eremburga who ruled over the Maine, And Joan, the good woman from Lorraine