In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

so that, while it usually is easy to recognize a poem by Hardy, it is difficult to date one.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

A poem by Dylan Thomas, a saxophone solo by Charles Parker, a painting by Jackson Pollock -- these are pure confabulations as ends in themselves.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

The whimsical poem " The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon " in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil tells how the Man in the Moon fell one night into " the windy Bay of Bel "; his fall is marked by the tolling of a bell in the Sea-ward Tower ( Tirith Aear ) of Dol Amroth ; and he recovers at an inn in the city.

His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.

The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

On the other hand, one might posit a poem which is composed by a literate scribe, who acquired literacy by way of learning Latin ( and absorbing Latinate culture and ways of thinking ), probably a monk and therefore profoundly Christian in outlook.

T. S. Eliot said: " It is difficult for us to read that essay without reflecting that if Poe plotted out his poem with such calculation, he might have taken a little more pains over it: the result hardly does credit to the method.

" The poem was long considered to be about two male hills in a quarrel over a female hill, but scholars now consider that Kagu and Mimihashi might be female hills in love with the same male hill, Unebi.

In that case, the tripod that Hesiod won might have been awarded for his rendition of Theogony, a poem that seems to presuppose the kind of aristocratic audience he would have met at Chalcis.

The phrase introduces the 1866 poem Hymn to Proserpine, which was Algernon Charles Swinburne's elaboration of what a philosophic pagan might have felt at the triumph of Christianity.

It was during this trip that Lönnrot formulated the idea that the poems might represent a wider continuity when poem entities were performed to him along with comments in normal speech connecting them.

When the Preface is dropped, the poem seems to compare the act of poetry with the might of Kubla Khan instead of the loss of inspiration causing the work to have a more complex depiction of the poetic power.

Norman Fruman, in 1971, argued: " To discuss ' Kubla Khan ' as one might any other great poem would be an exercise in futility.

David's popularity in Wales is shown by the Armes Prydein Fawr c. 930, a popular prophetic poem in which the poet prophesied that in the future, when all might seem lost, the Cymry ( the Welsh people ) would unite behind the standard of David to defeat the English ; A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant (" And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi ").

The ceremony might include the singing of hymns or performance of a popular song, a Bible reading, or a poem.

However, these arguments may be anachronistic — half-finished lines might equally, to Roman readers, have been a clear indication of an unfinished poem and have added nothing whatsoever to the dramatic effect.

As for the probability — to be sure that might admit some question — but I told her that in my judgment the poem had moral, and that too openly obtruded on the reader, It ought to have no more moral than the story of the merchant sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well and throwing the shells aside, and the Genii starting up and saying he must kill the merchant, because a date shell had put out the eye of the Genii's son.

Unwinese might also be traceable to Lewis Carroll's 1871 poem, Jabberwocky.

In 1975, she wrote a poem about not being able to touch the hand of her friend with whom she might have been walking through life.

A razo normally introduced the poem it explained ; it might, however, share some of the characteristics of a vida.

Some scholars consider this a clue that the poem might have been performed as ritual drama.

Erato is also invoked at the start of book 7 of Virgil's Aeneid, which marks the beginning of the second half or ' Iliadic ' section of the poem: Calliope ( epic ), even Melpomene ( tragedy ) or Clio ( history ) might seem more appropriate.

Some scholars have proposed that the author took the list from a now-lost Old Welsh poem which listed Arthur's twelve great victories, based on the fact that some of the names appear to rhyme and the suggestion that the odd description of Arthur bearing the image of the Virgin Mary on his shoulders at Guinnion might contain a confusion of the Welsh word iscuit ( shield ) for iscuid ( shoulders ).

Or, as the ideal character of the poem, Piers might be seen as a kind of alter-ego for the poet that was more important to his early readers than the obviously authorial narrator and his apparent self-disclosures as Will.

There is a possibility that another exceptional and fearless rider, Charlie McKeahnie, might have been the inspiration for the poem.

William Wordsworth was a highly respected poet in the 1800s and his poem, Prelude, published in 1805, was an excellent example of what a dream of a new golden age might materialize as or look like.

Reflecting the traditional notion that the poem was written during Arnold's honeymoon ( see composition section ), one critic notes that " the speaker might be talking to his bride ".

< poem > Few thought he was even a starter.

In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.

In its relatively brief history the impi inspired anger, scorn ( During the Anglo-Zulu War, British commander Lord Chelmsford complained that they did not ' fight fair '), and even a grudging admiration by its opponents, epitomized in Kipling's poem " Fuzzy Wuzzy ":

The poem could have provided Coleridge with the idea of a dream poem that discusses fountains, sacredness, and even a woman singing a sorrowful song.

A single verse is not poetry unless it is a one-verse poem ; and even the finest line draws its life from its context.

'" What sets apart the poem from the others is its " verbal enactment of the creative process " which makes it " unique even among the three poems of high imagination.

In the same year as Radley, George Watson argued that " The case of ' Kubla Khan ' is perhaps the strangest of all – a poem that stands high even in English poetry as a work of ordered perfection is offered by the poet himself, nearly twenty years after its composition, as a fragment.

" Adam Sisman, in 2006, questioned the nature of the poem itself: " No one even knows whether it is complete ; Coleridge describes it as a ' fragment ,' but there is a case for doubting this.

For the other variations of shi poetry, generally either a four line ( quatrain, or jueju ) or else an eight line poem is normal ; either way with the even numbered lines rhyming.

Polyphemus is shown doing all of the things that a proper Roman suitor would do — trims his beard, composes a poem etc .— which encourage the reader / hearer to cheer for him, even though his courtship is doomed to fail.

Dante settled his score with Boniface in Part One of the Divine Comedy, the Inferno, by damning the pope even before his death in 1303 ( the poet set the time of the poem as being in the year 1300 ) in the pit of those whose sin was simony.

Traditionally tanka has had no concept of rhyme ( indeed, certain arrangements of rhymes, even accidental, were considered dire faults in a poem ), or even of line.

The theme of the poem is that nature will survive after humanity is gone, reflecting the theme of the story ; that even the vast cities of humanity will eventually be reclaimed by nature.

Similar comments were made even in Constantinople, where John Kyriotes Geometres penned a poem offering a punning comparison between the Bulgarian Emperor and a comet which appeared in 989.

Lemures is the more common literary term but even this is rare: it is used by the Augustan poets Horace and Ovid, the latter in his Fasti, the six-book calendar poem on Roman holidays and religious customs.

To see a great work of fiction or a great poem primarily as a psychological case study is often to miss its wider significance and perhaps even the essential aesthetic experience it should provide.

He wrote introductions for a few books such as a new edition of George Borrow's Wild Wales ; he gave radio talks on the BBC Third Programme ; he even tried his hand at an extended consideration of Coleridge's poem for a reprinting of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner featuring his own introduction and illustrations with a series of copper engravings.

and vii., as numbered by Kenyon in the editio princeps ) must be parts of a single ode ( for Lachon of Ceos ) – hence even today the poems can be found numbered differently, with Jebb for example one of those following Blass's lead and numbering the poems differently to Kenyon from poem 8 onwards ( Kenyon 9

So entirely did even his immediate circle ignore his religion that Eyvindr Skáldaspillir, his court poet, composed the poem Hákonarmál on his death, representing his reception by the Norse gods into Valhalla.

Diogenes Laertius, after quoting a famous epigram by Cleobulus ( one of ancient Greece's ' seven sages ') in which a maiden sculptured on a tomb is imagined to proclaim her eternal vigilance, quotes Simonides commenting on it in a poem of his own: Stone is broken even by mortal hands.

The following poem makes even more extreme use of word incompatibility by pairing a number of polar opposites such as morning / night, paralyzed / walking, dry / drowned, lie / true, in conjunction with lesser incompatibilities such as swords / shot and rubber / wall.