The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

The collection of poems was published 25 May 1816, and Coleridge included " A Fragment " as a subtitle to the 54 line version of the poem to defend against criticism of the poem's incomplete nature.

While they changed the poem's starting line In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree to In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A pleasure-dome erect, they delivered an atmospheric video that interwove contemporary mid-80's youth culture with elements of a fictitious Xanadu themepark.

) The journeymen were referred to as " fellows " or " fellows of the craft ", which accords with the Regius poem's injunction ( line 51 ) that masons should " calle other felows by cuthe ".

Kenneth and Miriam Allott, referring to " Dover Bitch " as " an irreverent jeu d ' esprit ", nonetheless see, particularly in the line " a sort of mournful cosmic last resort ", an extension of the original poem's main theme.

Many authors have borrowed the phrase " World enough and time " from the poem's opening line to use in their book titles.

A poem by Christopher Knowles is read over the musical soprano saxophone and bass clarinet line and in the poem's meanderings, it mentions such " TV personalities " as David Cassidy.

Many of the poem's clauses carry over into the following line ; this enjambment emphasizes Ulysses ' restlessness and dissatisfaction.

" Ulysses " is found lacking in narrative action ; the hero's goal is vague, and by the poem's famous last line, it is not clear for what he is " striving ", or to what he refuses to yield.

The poem's ending line has been used as a motto by schools and other organisations.

The first line exemplifies the poem's consistent iambic pentameter scansion:

In the voice of the poem's elderly narrator, the poem contains the line, " And the Jew squats on the window sill, the owner my building / Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp.

The word gyre in the poem's first line may be used in a sense drawn from Yeats's book A Vision, which sets out a theory of history and metaphysics Yeats claimed to have received from spirits.

The poem's title forewarns the reader of the pessimistic tone Southwell uses to describe life, as in in the line " Life is but losse, where death is deemed gaine.

It focuses on the objective representation of an object, in line with the Imagist philosophy that was only ten years old at the time of the poem's publication.

* The Talking Heads song " Sax and Violins " features a variation of the poem's opening line: " Mom and Pop, they will fuck you up, for sure.

In the 1996 science fiction novel The Truth Machine, the protagonist repeats the poem's opening line in his mind, to exploit a software bug in the book's otherwise infallible lie detector.

If Abingdon was not the one who encouraged the poem's composition, he at least enjoyed having the celebrated poet in his household.

The poem's use of original names and disorganised use of action can also be attributed to an opium induced state of mind.

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

The style obtained for the poem's author, even among the ancients, the title of " obscure "; one modern scholar says the Alexandra " may be the most illegible piece of classical literature, one which nobody can read without a proper commentary and which even then makes very difficult reading.

1991, 53 ) In addition, the stylistic qualities of poetry can be seen as an accompaniment to Pilkington ’ s poetic effects in understanding a poem's meaning.

According to Gould, " the message would be clear enough to the poem's Christian audience: only God can contribute enough power to overcome enemies to whom the poem has elsewhere given a Scriptural history.

In a 1993 lecture on Merriman's life and work, Seamus Heaney declared, " Perhaps I can convey the ongoing reality of the poem's life more simply by recollecting a Saturday evening last August when I had the privilege of unveiling a memorial to Brian Merriman on the shore of Lough Graney in Co. Clare, where the opening scene of ' The Midnight Court ' is set.

Among proposed explanations for this anomaly, a Scandinavian inspiration for the Anglo-Saxon text offers one possible solution to this problem, and has similarly been considered as an explanation for its difficult language, but this theory, as with most others on the poem's prehistory, can only be regarded as hypothetical given lack of substantive corroborating evidence.

Unusually for a Middle English romance, the poem's author can be named.

This poem's simplistic racist views can be serious and point to Kipling's history of satirical writing, suggesting that " The White Man's Burden " is in fact meant to parody imperialist attitudes.

As is true with many medieval English adaptations of French Arthuriana, the poem's artistic achievement can only be described as average, though some critics have tried to rehabilitate it, claiming it is a parody.

*" Casey at the Bat " Web site with biographical details on Thayer, Hopper, Mike " King " Kelly and chronology of the poem's publication.

This period of his life, coupled with the reality of an impoverished childhood, plays a major role in the meaning behind the poem ; it is also the prime reason for this poem's existence.

Coleridge attributed the poem's origins to one of his stays at Ash Farm, possibly the one that happened in October 1797: " This fragment with a good deal more, not recoverable, composed, in a sort of Reverie brought on by two grains of Opium taken to check a dysentry, at a Farm House between Porlock & Linton, a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church, in the fall of the year, 1797 ".

However, not everyone was happy with the idea of the poem's being published, as Coleridge's wife, who was not with him, wrote to Thomas Poole, " Oh!

While incomplete and subtitled a " fragment ", its language is highly stylised with a strong emphasis on sound devices that change between the poem's original two stanzas.

The poem's self-proclaimed fragmentary nature combined with Coleridge's warning about the poem in the preface turns Kubla Khan into an " anti-poem ", a work that lacks structure, order, and leaves the reader confused instead of enlightened.

' Amazing Grace ' was not the original title of this hymn: it was originally written as a poem entitled ' Faith's Review and Expectation ' and appears in Book I of the Olney Hymns with the poem's title and ' hymn 41 '.

The title was chosen late in the poem's gestation ; it refers to the youngest of the three Parcae ( the minor Roman deities also called The Fates ), though for some readers the connection with that mythological figure is tenuous and problematic.

In the poem, this has been transformed into an abbreviated " and " and given an apostrophe, with every " and " in the poem's additional lines then being written " an ' " as if to match.

This ties in well with the poem's many allusions to the tumultuous state of political affairs in Rome and its civil strife.

The amount of time it takes to read " The Fish " coincides with the length of time a fish could live outside of water ; likewise, the duration of the long bus ride in " The Moose " coincides with the poem's long first sentence as well as the twenty-some stanzas it takes before the passengers on the bus ( and the reader ) actually encounters the moose.

With the compositional approach he took from the Third Symphony onward, Sibelius sought to overcome the distinction between symphony and tone poem to fuse their most basic principles — the symphony's traditional claims of weight, musical abstraction, gravitas and formal dialogue with seminal works of the past ; and the tone poem's structural innovation and spontaneity, identifiable poetic content and inventive sonority.

The full meaning of the poem's text is evident only to those well acquainted with Hungarian history.

Poetry analysis is the process of investigating a poem's form, content, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others ' understanding and appreciation of the work.

The poem's obscure record may have had something to do with Crowley's radical politics, and the prophetic / apocalyptic aspects of his edition.

In an 1894 study, J. J. Jusserand was primarily concerned with what he saw as the poem's psychological and sociopolitical content — as distinct from the aesthetic or literary — in a dichotomy common to all modern humanistic studies.

The poem's publication began Proctor's long association with Dickens's periodicals ; in all, Procter published 73 poems in Household Words and 7 poems in All the Year Round, most of which were collected into her first two volumes of poetry, both entitled Legends and Lyrics.

The poem's text, as it has survived, is in a very corrupt state ; it ends so abruptly with the request of Medea to accompany Jason on his homeward voyage, that it is assumed by most modern scholars that it was never finished.

" Lucretius on Creation and Evolution offers a bold and sophisticated attempt to come to terms with Lucretius ' arguments on evolution in the spirit of the poem's most ambitious commentators.

The poem's voice is that of the River Dart, which Oswald adapted from three years of recorded conversations and research with people who inhabit the communities along the river.