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The speaker of the poem is arguably separated from her lover and/or husband, Wulf, both symbolically and materially ('Wulf is on iege, ic on oþerre' [Wulf is on an island, I on another]), and this separation is seemingly maintained by threat of violence ('willað hy hine aþecgan' [they will want to ?seize him]), possibly by her own people ('Leodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife' [it is to ...
First edition (publ. Knopf) The Cinnamon Peeler is a lyric poem by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje.The poem is about love, but also about writing. The speaker of the poem travels through vastly different temporalities, wishing for different outcomes in a subjunctive past, and settling on the hope given to him as he is in dialogue with his memory.
The poem does not have a deep, hidden, symbolic meaning. Rather, it is simply pleasurable to read, say, and hear. Critical terminology becomes useful when one attempts to account for why the language is pleasurable, and how Byron achieved this effect. The lines are not simply rhythmic: the rhythm is regular within a line, and is the same for ...
Tennyson spent some time as a guest at Curragh Chase and wrote the poem to show his close friendship with the de Vere family. [1] Despite this, the poem is a scathing rebuke. The speaker tells that Lady Clara has rebuffed a young, but low-born man who loved her, and he committed suicide after her rejection.
The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society (1764) is a philosophical poem by novelist Oliver Goldsmith. In heroic verse of an Augustan style it discusses the causes of happiness and unhappiness in nations. It was the work which first made Goldsmith's name, and is still considered a classic of mid-18th-century poetry.
The speaker in the poem concludes by stating that the blooming English buttercups will be brighter than the "gaudy melon-flower" seen growing in Italy. [2] The poem is in two stanzas. The first stanza has an irregular metre consisting of alternating trimeter, tetrameter and pentameter lines and a final trimeter line, with an ABABCCDD rhyming ...
“At this hearing / I stand before my fellow members of the Tortured Poets Department / With a summary of my findings,” the poem begins. “A debrief, a detailed rewinding / For the purpose of ...
The speaker of the poem questions the sun's motives and yearns for the sun to go away so that he and his lover can stay in bed. Donne is tapping into human emotion in personifying the sun, and he is exhibiting how beings behave when they are in love with one another. The speaker in the poem believes that, for him and his lover, time is the enemy.