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A BBC Radio 4 play The Wench Is Dead dramatised by Guy Meredith was broadcast in 1992 starring John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis, with Garard Green as Col. Deniston, Joanna Myers as Christine Greenaway, Peter Penry-Jones as Waggy Greenaway, and Kate Binchy as Sister MacLean. The play was directed by Ned Chaillet. [5]
The poem's epigraph is a famous quotation from Christopher Marlowe's play The Jew of Malta: "Thou hast committed - / Fornication: but that was in another country, / And besides, the wench is dead." The poem is one of the two main Boston poems written by Eliot, the other being "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". It shows upper class society ...
A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4] A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5]
The title derives from a line in the poem "XVI – (How clear, how lovely bright)", from More Poems, by A. E. Housman, a favourite poet of Dexter and Morse: "Ensanguining the skies How heavily it dies Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground Falls the remorseful day."
Metaphors can be paraphrased, and implicit meaning in a poem can be made explicit. Even if there are aspects of a poem that are not paraphrasable, such as sound and form, no one expects a paraphrase to contain a poem's exact meaning. However, a paraphrase cannot replicate the same beauty as the poem it is based on. [6]
Critical Essays (1946) is a collection of wartime pieces by George Orwell. It covers a variety of topics in English literature, and also includes some pioneering studies of popular culture . It was acclaimed by critics, and Orwell himself thought it one of his most important books.
In Poe’s famous poem, the black bird is largely understood to represent death and loneliness, and Verna’s appearance at the end of all of the Usher kids' lives is the kiss of death. But her ...
Song of the Dead; Obit for Obie (expanded into novel The Deep End) Whistler's Murder; 1947. A Voice Behind Him; Don't Look Behind You; Miss Darkness; 1948. I'll Cut Your Throat Again, Kathleen; The Dead Ringer (expanded into novel The Dead Ringer) Four Letter Word (a/p/a "The Greatest Poem Ever Written") The Four Blind Men