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The poem begins with an octave where the speaker states that love does not possess the power to heal or save things, and concludes with a sestet of the speaker saying that even though she may face hardships, she would not trade love for food or peace. This poem is often lauded as one of her most successful works in the Fatal Interview sequence.
Lyric poems. A Dialogue Between the Resolvèd Soul and Created Pleasure. On a Drop of Dew. The Coronet. Eyes and Tears. Bermudas. Clorinda and Damon. Two Songs at the Marriage of the Lord Fauconberg and the Lady Mary Cromwell. A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body.
The poem is an ode, and its subject is the pursuit of the human soul by God's love - a theme also found in the devotional poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan. Moody and Lovett point out that Thompson's use of free and varied line lengths and irregular rhythms reflect the panicked retreat of the soul, while the structured, often recurring refrain suggests the inexorable pursuit as it ...
The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. [ 1] But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic compositions”, [ 2] at least as a vehicle for love poetry, and he wrote ...
An Arundel Tomb. The monument in Chichester Cathedral. "An Arundel Tomb" is a poem by Philip Larkin, written and published in 1956, and subsequently included in his 1964 collection The Whitsun Weddings. It describes the poet's response to seeing a pair of recumbent medieval tomb effigies with their hands joined in Chichester Cathedral.
Dover Beach. " Dover Beach " is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. [ 1] It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems; however, surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849. The most likely date is 1851.
Acephalous line: a line lacking the first element. Line: a unit into which a poem is divided. Line break: the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line. Metre (or meter): the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Metres are influenced by syllables and their "weight".
Roy Croft. Roy Croft (sometimes, Ray Croft) is a pseudonym frequently given credit for writing a poem titled "Love" that begins "I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." [ 1] The poem, which is commonly used in Christian wedding speeches and readings, is quoted frequently.