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 Preface to the poem suggests that the poem was not supposed to be printed, that it was a fragmentary work that he was unable to complete, and that the work itself was provided to him through involuntary inspiration.

" The review then concluded, " His ' psychological curiosity ', as he terms it, depends in no slight degree on the establishment of the previous fact which we have mentioned: but the poem itself is below criticism.

The trouble with all these approaches is that they tend finally to lead away from the poem itself.

" 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.

" In describing the merits of the poem and its fragmentary state, he claimed, " The poem stands for itself: beautiful, sensuous and enigmatic.

Loki greets Eldir ( and the poem itself begins ) with a demand that Eldir tell him what the gods are discussing over their ale inside the hall.

One final poem is inserted by the author as a sort of epilogue which suggests that life itself is but a dream.

This section has been interpreted to mean that for the entire passage of the poem, Aeneas who symbolizes pietas ( reason ) in a moment becomes furor ( fury ), thus destroying what is essentially the primary theme of the poem itself.

" I knew not what it meant, then: I know not what it means, now ; but I wrote it down: and, sometime afterwards, the rest of the stanza occurred to me, that being its last line: and so by degrees, at odd moments during the next year or two, the rest of the poem pieced itself together, that being its last stanza.

A poem by Baldric of Dol might even be describing the Bayeux Tapestry itself.

" When a poem rhymes ," Heaney wrote, " when a form generates itself, when a metre provokes consciousness into new postures, it is already on the side of life.

The poem itself implies that the writer lived under Augustus or Tiberius, and that he was a citizen of and resident in Rome.

The poem itself starts with the wife of Njörðr, bidding Skírnir to ask of Freyr why he is so sad.

Other popular scenarios for bondage in art was that of Angelica from the fifteenth century epic poem Orlando Innamorato, which is itself a continuation of the romantic epic saga Orlando Furioso, which is similar to that of Andromeda in that the heroine is offered as a sacrifice to the sea gods ; and the damsel in distress theme.

The book is a long and detailed examination of one short translation of a minor French poem, and through that an examination of the mysteries of translation ( and indeed more generally, language and consciousness ) itself.

In his famous poem " The Old Vicarage, Grantchester " he heaped praise on his own village, but not on the shire town of Cambridge itself, or on the other villages around.

In it, Sidney partially nativised the key features of his Italian model, Petrarch: variation of emotion from poem to poem, with the attendant sense of an ongoing, but partly obscure, narrative ; the philosophical trappings ; the musings on the act of poetic creation itself.

The poem itself was written in 31, the year of Messalla's consulship.

But the preface to the Franciade is a very fine piece of verse, far superior ( it is in alexandrines ) to the poem itself.

During this period, which has become known as baseball's dead-ball era, Cub infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance were made famous as a double-play combination by Franklin P. Adams ' poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

" He continued by describing the power of the poem: " For none of the things which we have seen – dome, river, chasm, fountain, caves of ice, or floating hair – nor any combination of them holds the secret key to that sense of an incommunicable witchery which pervades the poem.

The stanza forms of the poem is a combination of elements from Petrarchan sonnets and Shakespearean sonnets.

Formally, the poem can be understood as the combination of two sonnets, though the spacing of the stanzas is irregular.

The poem is the epitaph of a man, identified only by a combination of letters and numbers somewhat like an American Social Security number (" JS / 07 / M / 378 "), who is described entirely in external terms: from the point of view of government organizations such as the fictional " Bureau of Statistics.

Among the Betsileo, for instance, oral histories are retold through a form of musical performance called the rija, which in its current form may represent a combination of the original, single-verse rija and an epic poem called the isa.

Tinker is perhaps best known for the " Tinker to Evers to Chance " double play combination in the poem " Baseball's Sad Lexicon ," written by the New York Evening Mail newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams in July 1910.

Lovecraft's famous early poem " Nemesis "( 1917 ) was also influenced by a combination of " Ulalume " and Algernon Swinburne's " Hertha ".

During his time on the Evening Mail, Adams wrote what remains his best known work, the poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon, a tribute to the Chicago Cubs double play combination of " Tinker to Evers to Chance ".

Milton was Blake's longest published poem to date, and was printed in Blake's characteristic combination of etched text and illustration supplemented by watercolour.

The Adams poem has made them perhaps the most famed double-play combination in history.

The opera has great appeal because of its combination of fairy tale and folk music ; it is very close in feel to a Czech tone poem.

From the time of Matsuo Bashō ( 1644 – 1694 ), the hokku began to appear as an independent poem, and was also incorporated in haibun ( in combination with prose ), and haiga ( in combination with a painting ).

The poem consisted of only two words, the word `` Wait '', repeated over and over at irregular intervals and with different inflections, and then the word `` Now ''!!

Finn Coren also created a different musical setting for the poem on his album The Blake Project: Spring.

An Old English poem such as Beowulf is very different from modern poetry.

There is a very different interpretation of the encounter with Circe in John Gower's long didactic poem Confessio Amantis ( 1380 ).

Despite the different subject matter between this poem and the Works and Days, most scholars, with some notable exceptions ( like Evelyn-White ), believe that the two works were written by the same man.

The poem is different in style and form from other poems composed by Coleridge.

The rhythm of the poem, like its themes and images, is different from other poems Coleridge wrote during the time, and it is organised in a structure similar to 18th-century odes.

The Preface and the poem are different in their locations, as the Preface discusses Coleridge's England while the poem discusses ancient China, but both discuss the role of the poem and his abilities.

In 1966, Virginia Radley considered Wordsworth and his sister as an important influence to Coleridge writing a great poem: " Almost daily social intercourse with this remarkable brother and sister seemed to provide the catalyst to greatness, for it is during this period that Coleridge conceived his greatest poems, ' Christabel ,' ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' poems so distinctive and so different from his others that many generations of readers know Coleridge solely through them.

This poem was shortly followed by another, slightly different, version, entitled the " Rede Of The Wiccae ", which was published in Green Egg magazine by Lady Gwen Thompson.

The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger, of the supernatural or of serenity, depending on the mood of each of the different parts of the poem.

* Bilingual homophonous poetry, where the poem makes sense in two different languages at the same time, thus constituting two simultaneous homophonous poems.

The heroine of the poem is given different family names in different versions of her story.

The original Hindi version of the song Jana Gana Mana, translated by Ali and based on the poem by Tagore, was a little different.

According to them, trobar means " inventing a trope ", the trope being a poem where the words are used with a meaning different from their common signification, i. e. metaphor and metonymy.

The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius appears to follow a different version of the same myth: in the poem, when the Argonauts arrive near Lake Tritonis, Euphemus accepts the clod of earth from Triton who first introduces himself as Eurypylus but later reveals his true divine identity.

A different tradition, attested in a lost poem of Stesichorus makes Penthesilea the slayer of Hector, seen as a son of Apollo.

" Vran " appears in an old poem in the Book of Taliesin, while Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr and Prydydd y Moch mention Brân fab Llŷr several times in their poetry, under different spellings.

Also, Robert Browning uses the term " Tertium Quid " in his long narrative poem " The Ring and the Book " to describe a speaker with a third point of view who has a different, more balanced, opinion on the 1698 Roman murder case his poem discusses, different from the opinions of " Half Rome " and " The Other Half Rome " who strongly sympathize with, or strongly do not sympathize with, the accused.