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The poem links Coleridge's surroundings under the lime tree to the Quantocks where the Wordsworths, Lamb, and Fricker were out walking. Although they are all separated, Coleridge connects to his distant friends by their mutual experience and appreciation of nature. As the poem ends, the friends share together the same view about completion and ...
In this interpretation the poem's ending lines justify the landscape in theological terms, and are also a theological statement of the body's sacred significance. The poem is thus an argument against Platonic and idealistic theologies in which the body is inherently fallen and inferior to the spirit. This interpretation is consistent with Auden ...
Phillis Wheatley broke barriers as the first American black woman poet to be published, opening the door for future black authors. James Weldon Johnson, author, politician, diplomat and one of the first African-American professors at New York University, wrote of Wheatley that "she is not a great American poet—and in her day there were no great American poets—but she is an important ...
O-Zone's song Dragostea din Tei (love from the linden) is titled after the tree. Trevor Hall’s song: The Lime Tree was named for the tree and is based on Ovid's narration of Baucis and Philemon and the poem Under der linden by Walter von der Vogelweide.
Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. John Keats dedicated this poem to the late poet Thomas Chatterton. The poem begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter (also known as heroic couplets).
Other poems in the series received praise, with George Watson, in 1966, claiming that To William Wordsworth "is the last pure example that Coleridge's poetry affords of the conversation poem [...] the poem is extravagant in its very being." [80] Also, Holmes describes The Eolian Harp as a "beautiful Conversation Poem". [81]
"Farewell, sweet Love! yet blame you not my truth;" 1806 1806, September 27 To William Wordsworth. Composed on the night after his recitation of a poem on the growth of an individual mind. "Friend of the wise! and Teacher of the Good!" 1807, January 1817 Sibylline Leaves An Angel Visitant. "Within these circling hollies woodbine-clad—" 1801? 1836
The speaker of the poem describes the gruesome effects of the gas on the man, and concludes that anyone who sees the reality of war at first hand would not repeat mendacious platitudes such as dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: "How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country". Owen himself was a soldier who served on the front line ...