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Poem 68 is a complex elegy written by Catullus, who lived in the 1st century BCE during the time of the Roman Republic.This poem addresses common themes of Catullus' poetry such as friendship, poetic activity, love and betrayal, and grief for his brother.
The poem opens with the possible bonds of friendship, and then kinship, between the parents. Then, it moves to bonds formed by two people learning and getting to know each other. From these abstractions, it comes to concreteness with the picture of red earth in the rain, drawing a parallel with the lover's journey from aloneness to union.
A / LAKE / A / LANE / A / LINE / A / LONE - bpNichol. The bpNichol Chapbook Award, [34] a prize for poetry publications between 10 and 48 pages, was established in 1986 by Phoenix Community Works Foundation. This annual award for excellence in Canadian Poetry in English is now administered by Meet the Presses collective.
The 13th line has a mid-line reversal ("hear this"): × / × / / × × / × / For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred: (104.13) This is a metrical variation that is more commonly encountered at the beginning of the line, and there is one definite (line 10) and several potential (lines 3, 4, 9, 11, and 14) examples of initial reversals in ...
[4] The first version of the poem was sent in a letter to Southey and was only 56 lines. The 1800 edition, the first published edition, was 76 lines long. [5] The poem was also revised and published under another name in Southey's Annual Anthology. A later revised edition was included in Sibylline Leaves, Coleridge's 1817 collection of poems. [6]
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Poe was married at the time, yet his friendship with Osgood was very public. This four-line poem, written with an almost juvenile tone, compares the woman's beautiful thoughts with her beautiful eyes. The poem, which consists of four lines, was published in the Broadway Journal on April 26, 1845. [28]