Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2 ] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
The poem demonstrates most of the controversial themes for which Swinburne became notorious. It conflates the cruel yet libidinous pagan goddess figure of Dolores, the Lady of Pain with Mary, Mother of Jesus and associates the poem itself, through its parenthetical titular text (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs, i.e.,
And all that mighty heart is lying still! William Wordsworth : Poems, in Two Volumes : Sonnet 14 " Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 " is a Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London and the River Thames , viewed from Westminster Bridge in the early morning.
Night is a poem that describes two contrasting places: Earth, where nature runs wild, and Heaven, where predation and violence are nonexistent. It is influenced by a passage from the Old Testament: Isaiah 11:6-8 "The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a ...
A Desultory poem, written on the Christmas Eve of 1794 "This is the time, when most divine to hear," 1794-6 1796 [Note 9] Monody on the Death of Chatterton. "O what a wonder seems the fear of death," 1790-1834 1794 The Destiny of Nations. A Vision "Auspicious Reverence! Hush all meaner song," 1796 1817 Ver Perpetuum. Fragment from an ...
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
The poem is most often read as the poet/narrator's admission of having experienced depression and a vivid description of what that experience feels like. In this particular reading of the poem, "the night" is the depression itself, and the narrator describes how he views the world around him in this state of mind.
The poem describes the speaker – a woman, as the adjective "μόνα" ("alone") in the final line is feminine – lying alone at night. Clay suggests that this was intended to allude to, and contrast with, the myth of Selene and her mortal lover Endymion , who were reunited each night. [ 10 ]