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Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. [7] The poem itself is a dramatic monologue by an elderly character. The use of pronouns such as "us" and "I" regarding the speaker and a member of the opposite sex as well as the general discourse in lines 53–58, in the opinion of Anthony David Moody, presents ...
Following Horace Davis, Stephen Booth notes the similarity of this poem in theme and imagery to Sonnet 120. Gerald Massey finds an analogue to lines 7–8 in The Faerie Queene , 2.1.20. In 1768, Edward Capell altered line ten by replacing the word "loss" with the word "cross".
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf How the heart feels a languid grief Laid on it for a covering, And how sleep seems a goodly thing In Autumn at the fall of the leaf? And how the swift beat of the brain Falters because it is in vain, In Autumn at the fall of the leaf
The Sun Rising (also known as The Sunne Rising) is a thirty-line poem (a great example of an inverted aubade) [1] with three stanzas published in 1633 [2] by the English poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern.
Thou by thy dial’s shady stealth mayst know Time’s thievish progress to eternity; Look, what thy memory cannot contain, Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find Those children nursed, delivered from thy brain, To take a new acquaintance of thy mind. These offices, so oft as thou wilt look, Shall profit thee, and much enrich thy book.
Rain opens with a quote from Antonio Porchia and Paterson regularly works off the work of other writers (often non-English language writers) such as Slavoj Žižek, Li Po, and César Vallejo. Rain contains 30 poems. Aside from the title poem some of the more famous poems included are: Two Trees; The Swing; Renku: My Last Thirty-Five Deaths; The ...
In line 3, "Why lov'st thou" means "why do you like". It is followed by "thou receiv'st" which activates a sexual tone, emphasized by "receiv'st with pleasure" in line 4. [ 6 ] The subject of the poem is having affairs; running around receiving pleasures, but with no intention of settling down.
[8] A. L. Rowse points out in both of these poems the speaker is unable to predict the future by using astrology, and can only predict the future through the object of their poem's eyes. [ 9 ] According to Frederick Fleays, lines 3-4 are possible references to plagues that occurred in 1592–1593, and the dearths that followed in 1594–1596 ...