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 a combination of different poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom.

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.

Book 1 ( at the head of the Odyssean section ) opens with a storm which Juno, Aeneas ' enemy throughout the poem, stirs up against the fleet.

When she opens it and sees the ring, joy conquers her, and out of happiness she chants this poem ( Arabic ):

The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a " carnal embrace " by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem ' The Couch of Eros ', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater.

Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in David Amram's jazz composition that opens the film.

The collection opens with James Elroy Flecker's poem " The Bridge of Fire ," which acts as a prologue and description of the events that occur.

The poem opens ( Book 1 ) with the disgraced Oedipus ' curse on his two sons, Eteocles and Polyneices, who have decided to hold the throne of Thebes in alternate years, one ruling, the other in exile.

The poem opens with a description of the state of Scotland at the death of Alexander III ( 1286 ) and concludes ( more or less ) with the death of Douglas and the burial of the Bruce's heart ( 1332 ).

: With work a new era opens in the history of European story telling … this poem reinvents the genre we call narrative romance ; in some important respects it also initiates the vernacular novel.

Galahad isolates himself because he is a “ self-centered figure .” Morris ’ poem places this emotional conflict at center stage, rather than concentrating upon Galahad ’ s prowess for defeating external enemies, and the cold and the frost of a Christmas period serve to reinforce his “ chilly isolation .” The poem opens on midwinter's night ; Sir Galahad has been sitting for six hours in a chapel, staring at the floor.

The poem opens with Saturn bemoaning the loss of his power, which is being overtaken by Jupiter.

This third stanza begins with an image not of sadness, but of " joyous fulness " similar in beauty to the image with which the poem opens.

Pushkin's poem opens with a lengthy tongue-in-cheek discussion of the merits of ottava rima.

The poem opens with a magnificent invocation to Venus, whom he addresses as an allegorical representation of the reproductive power, after which the business of the piece commences by an enunciation of the great proposition on the nature and being of the gods, which leads to a grand invective against the gigantic monster superstition, and a thrilling picture of the horrors which attends its tyrannous sway.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby opens with a poem entitled " Then Wear the Gold Hat ," purportedly written by Thomas Parke D ' Invilliers.

In addition, Eliot's poem The Waste Land opens and closes with references to Dante and Daniel.

The poem opens:

The poem opens with a couplet and these two lines are used as the refrain in alternating stanzas.

What remains of the poem opens in the middle of a banquet.

In many of these calendars, each window opens to reveal an image, a poem, or a portion of a story such as the story of the Nativity of Jesus.

Willow's dream opens with Willow painting Sappho's love poem, Hymn to Aphrodite, in Greek onto Tara's back.

The poem opens with a panegyric on David Garrick, however, and bestows foolish praise on friends of the writer.

* Kipling's novel Kim ( 1900-1 ), opens with the above excerpt from his poem.

The poem opens in England during the reign of Athelwold, who is described in ideal terms as a just and virtuous king.