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Other works whose titles come from lines in the poem includes Walker Percy’s novel The Second Coming (1980), [1] Robert B. Parker's novel The Widening Gyre (1983), and multiple songs in Moby's album Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt (2018). [24]
In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "rebuffed the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine epiphany. Hopkins called "The Windhover" "the best thing [he] ever wrote". [2]
"The Wind" shows great inventiveness in its choice of metaphors and similes, while employing extreme metrical complexity. [9] It is one of the classic examples [10] [11] of the use of what has been called "a guessing game technique" [12] or "riddling", [13] a technique known in Welsh as dyfalu, comprising the stringing together of imaginative and hyperbolic similes and metaphors.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder; Absolute power corrupts absolutely (John Dalberg-Acton, 1887) [6] Accidents will happen (in the best-regulated families) Actions speak louder than words; Adversity makes strange bedfellows; All good things come to him who waits; All good things must come to an end; All hands on deck/to the pump
The lyrics of the song use imagery from the story; the line "Just like a flame, love burned brightly, then became an empty smoke dream that has gone. Gone with the wind", for example, evokes the inferno that consumed Tara. This song is not related to any of the well-known music featured in the 1939 film adaptation of the book. [3]
The poem was written in 1880 by Roberts before she had met Elgar, though they were married in the year after the song was written. Roberts offered the poem to Edward when they were engaged, and such was the quality of the work that he put into it—the independent brilliant piano part, the voice in turn subtle and heroic—that it won the first prize of £5 in a competition organised by the ...
"Hasten Down the Wind" is a song written and recorded by Warren Zevon and featured on his eponymous major-label debut album. The song was later covered by Linda Ronstadt , who would use the song as the title track for her seventh solo LP .
"Where there's a whip there's a will": Orcs driving a Hobbit across the plains of Rohan. Scraperboard illustration by Alexander Korotich, 1995 . The author J. R. R. Tolkien uses many proverbs in The Lord of the Rings to create a feeling that the world of Middle-earth is both familiar and solid, and to give a sense of the different cultures of the Hobbits, Men, Elves, and Dwarves who populate it.