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2. Complaints (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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   The poem is concerned with the state of contemporary literature, but also mourns the death of the poet Richard Willes in about 1579. [7] It was suggested by William Warburton in the 18th century that the lines from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream on the nine Muses mourning the death/ of Learning, first deceas'd in beggary refer to this ...

3. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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   The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy, and features abrupt and unannounced changes of narrator, location, and time, conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures. It employs many allusions to the Western canon : Ovid 's Metamorphoses , the legend of the Fisher King , Dante 's Divine Comedy , Chaucer 's ...

4. Gerontion - Wikipedia

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   [7] [8] The poem is a monologue in free verse describing his household (a boy reading to him, a woman tending to the kitchen, and the Jewish landlord), and mentioning four others (three with European names and one Japanese) who seem to inhabit the same boarding house. The poem then moves to a more abstract meditation on a kind of spiritual malaise.

5. Weltende (Jakob van Hoddis) - Wikipedia

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   The title Weltende means the same as end of the world or end time, but van Hoddis used it ironically, because the proper meaning is natural catastrophe, which is actually the poem's subject matter. The main motif is the struggle between two opposing forces: the first nature and the so-called second nature , build up by mankind with the material ...

6. Time's Paces - Wikipedia

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   Time's Paces is a poem about the apparent speeding up of time as one gets older. It was written by Henry Twells (1823–1900) and published in his book Hymns and Other Stray Verses (1901). The poem was popularised by Guy Pentreath (1902–1985) in an amended version.

7. The Vanity of Human Wishes - Wikipedia

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   The Vanity of Human Wishes: The Tenth Satire of Juvenal Imitated is a poem by the English author Samuel Johnson. [1] It was written in late 1748 and published in 1749 (see 1749 in poetry ). [ 2 ] It was begun and completed while Johnson was busy writing A Dictionary of the English Language and it was the first published work to include Johnson ...