" When the narrator is separated from Ruth, with whom he has fallen in love, he is free to explore other sexual ( and religious ) possibilities before deciding at the end of the poem to participate in the ritualistic order marriage represents.

Taken together, the Preface could connect with the first half of the poem to suggest that the poem is from the view of a dreaming narrator, or it could connect with the second half of the poem to show how a reader is to interpret the lines by connecting himself with the persona in a negative manner.

The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".

She is a figure of imaginary power within the poem who can inspire within the narrator his own ability to craft poetry.

Zeikowitz argues that the narrator of the poem seems entranced by the Knight's beauty, homoeroticising him in poetic form.

Rains made several audio recordings, narrating a few Bible stories for children on Capitol Records, and reciting Richard Strauss's setting for narrator and piano of Tennyson's poem Enoch Arden, with the piano solos played by Glenn Gould.

Earlier in the poem, the narrator says the face " lay in the sand ", referring to the shattered statue.

The narrator of the poem is possibly intended to be Taliesin himself.

He appeared on the television show The Equalizer in the 1987 episode " First Light " and as the narrator of director Richard Kwietniowski's short film Ballad of Reading Gaol ( 1988 ), based on the poem by Oscar Wilde.

The film ends with the narrator ’ s brief poem for the lovers: " And all of our hearts free to let all things base go / As taught by Juliet and her Tromeo ".

In the poem, Whitman emphasizes an all-powerful " I " which serves as narrator, who should not be limited to or confused with the person of the historical Walt Whitman.

There are several other quotes from the poem that makes it apparent that Whitman does not consider the narrator to represent a single individual.

** David Del Tredici's Wondrous the Merge for string quartet and narrator, based on a homoerotic poem by James Broughton, makes its controversial debut at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.

English composer Ernest Austin set the whole story as a huge narrative tone poem for solo organ, with optional 6-part choir and narrator, lasting approximately 2½ hours.

The main narrator of the poem in all the versions is named Will, with allegorical resonances clearly intended, and Langland ( or Longland ) is thought to be indicated as a surname through apparent puns ; e. g., at one point the narrator remarks: " I have lyved in londe ... my name is longe wille " ( B. XV. 152 ).

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.

* Le remède de fortune (" The Cure of Ill Fortune ") ( c. 1340s, before 1357 ) – The narrator is asked by his lady if the poem she has found is by him ; the narrator flees from her and comes to a garden where " Hope " consoles him and teaches him how to be a good lover ; he returns to his lady.

* Le voir dit (" A True Story ") ( c. 1362 – 65 ) – Often seen as Machaut's masterpiece, this poem is an early example of meta-fiction and tells of the sadness and separation of the narrator, from his lady and of the false rumors that are spread about him.

Carroll's first mention of a Bandersnatch, in the poem " Jabberwocky " ( which appears in Through the Looking-Glass ), is very brief: the narrator of the poem admonishes his son to " shun / The frumious Bandersnatch "— this particular portmanteau being a concise way of describing the creature's fuming and furious nature.

The poem is cast in the form of a lament by a person professing the paganism of classical antiquity and lamenting its passing, and expresses regret at the rise of Christianity.

( However, Pausanias 6. 18. 6 expresses doubt about his authorship of an epic poem on Alexander.

A fragment from Peterson's poem " Kuu " expresses the claim reestablishing the birthright of the Estonian language:

The poem expresses the regrets of someone who has lost his passionate feelings for his " old passion ", Cynara.

One definition of a hymn is "... a lyric poem, reverently and devotionally conceived, which is designed to be sung and which expresses the worshipper's attitude toward God or God's purposes in human life.

Wyatt is known to have written a poem inspired by the experience, which, though it stays clear of declaring the executions groundless, expresses grief and shock.

Stehle doesn't agree with Calame about the initiation-rituals, but cannot ignore the ' erotic ' language that the poem expresses.

" Mallarmé's poem Les fenêtres expresses all of these themes clearly.

The poem The Poetresses hasty Resolution, like many of Cavendish ’ s epistles, expresses excuses for any errors that may be found in the poet ’ s work and begs for praise.

Tchernichovsky particularly identified with the character of Saul, perhaps due to his own name, and the poem expresses considerable empathy to this King's tragic fate.

Often, the beginning of the third quatrain marks the volta (" turn "), or the line in which the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany.

* The Sea of Faith movement is so called as the name is taken from this poem, as the poet expresses regret that belief in a supernatural world is slowly slipping away ; the " sea of faith " is withdrawing like the ebbing tide.

The poem and its sentiments have since been parodied by many people often unhappy with the jingoism they feel it expresses or the propagandistic use it is put to.

This " political " element in the poem, Bewell points out, has also been suggested by Geoffrey Hartman, who expounded a view of " To Autumn " as " an ideological poem whose form expresses a national idea ".

Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that, though Lowell had significant technical skill, his poetry " rather expresses his wish, his ambition, than the uncontrollable interior impulse which is the authentic mark of a new poem ... and which is felt in the pervading tone, rather than in brilliant parts or lines.

His excellent poem, " Herbst ", expresses the sadness and melancholy he felt after his sojourn in the United States and his strenuous travels across the Atlantic to return to Europe.

As such, the envoi can be viewed as standing apart from the poem itself and expresses the poet's hope that the poem may bring them some benefit ( the beloved's favours, increased patronage, and so on ).

At the same time, the poem expresses the hope that its words will inspire and influence those who read or hear it.

*" Fuzzy-Wuzzy ", a Rudyard Kipling poem in which the narrator expresses pity and sympathy for the valiant but technologically inferior Hadendoa regiments that were " sloshed ... with Martinis "

Laughlin later wrote a poem about this, called Experience of Blood, in which he expresses his shock at the amount of blood in the human body.

This poem expresses his opposition towards the corrupt authoritarian government.

In the year of his death, 1087, a poem, " The Rime of King William ", inserted in the Peterborough Chronicle expresses English indignation at the forest laws.