Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The simile "quiet as a nun / Breathless with adoration" is often cited as an example of how a poet achieves effects. On the one hand "breathless" reinforces the placid evening scene Wordsworth is describing; on the other hand it suggests tremulous excitement, preparing the reader for the ensuing image of the eternal motion of the sea.
Brontë's love of the sea is expressed in this poem. In it, the sea is portrayed as "The Great Liberator". [2]The line "the long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing" and the footnote she wrote at the bottom of the poem reveals that Brontë "loved wild weather, as she loved the sea, and hard country and snow". [3]
Eulalia was a good girl, She had a beautiful body, a soul more beautiful still. The enemies of God wanted to overcome her, they wanted to make her serve the devil. She does not listen to the evil counsellors, (who want her) to deny God, who lives up in heaven. Not for gold, nor silver, nor jewels, not for the king's threats or entreaties,
The Sunlight on the Garden is a poem of four stanzas, each of six lines. It is a highly formal poem, and has been much admired as an example of MacNeice's poetic technique. All the lines are loose three-beat lines or trimeters, except for the fifth line of each stanza, which is a dimeter. The rhyme scheme is ABCBBA. The A rhyme in the first ...
The poem is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantastical experience in which a silver trout he had caught and laid on the floor turned into a "glimmering girl" who called him by his name, then vanished; he became infatuated with her, and remains devoted to finding her again.
His talk ‘A love poem for lonely prime numbers’ has over 2 million views. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] A collection of his own poetry, The Sunshine Kid, was published in 2015 by Burning Eye Books. [ 1 ] Baker received major national airplay on the BBC in 2015 when he wrote and performed a poem for Simon Mayo's Radio 2 show . [ 8 ]
Sign in to your AOL account to access your email and manage your account information.
The Good (the sun) provides the very foundation on which all other truth rests. Plato uses the image of the Sun to help define the true meaning of the Good. The Good "sheds light" on knowledge so that our minds can see true reality. Without the Good, we would only be able to see with our physical eyes and not the "mind's eye".