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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.
The poem is used by: Ernest Hemingway in his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929). George Orwell in ch. 21 of his novel Burmese Days (1934). Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves (1931). Wilbur Daniel Steele in his short story How Beautiful with Shoes. Madeleine L'Engle in her novel The Small Rain (1945). Louis Zukofsky includes the poem in A Test ...
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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 ...
The Mersey Sound is an anthology of poems by Liverpool poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri first published in 1967, when it launched the poets into "considerable acclaim and critical fame". [1] It went on to sell over 500,000 copies, becoming one of the bestselling poetry anthologies of all time.
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine? Shall will in others seem right gracious, And in my will no fair acceptance shine? The sea, all water, yet receives rain still, And in abundance addeth to his store; So thou, being rich in “Will,” add to thy “Will”
“It was at least 30 hours of rain,” he said. Some places got more than 25 inches. “All that rain comes down and it’s channeled into smaller streams to flow into bigger streams,” he said.
Clough published the poem without a title in 1862. [1] In The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, 1869, the poem was titled "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth". [1] There was probably no specific event in the poet's mind, although the failed revolutions of 1848 and 1849 may have been an inspiration. [1] [2]