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.

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.

The poem starts as a straightforward evocation of his childhood visits to his Aunt Annie's farm:

When Montag reads Dover Beach to them, Mrs. Phelps starts crying over how hollow her life is while Mrs. Bowles chastises Montag for reading a " filthy " poem.

Burns wrote the poem Address to a Haggis, which starts " Fair fa ' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o ' the puddin-race!

Impressed by the fate of the city, the relics, and not least legend's excessive descriptions, the German poet Detlev von Liliencron wrote a popular poem called " Trutz, Blanke Hans " about this lost city which starts with the words: " Heut bin ich über Rungholt gefahren, die Stadt ging unter vor sechshundert Jahren ".

The poem starts with the völva requesting silence from " the sons of Heimdallr " ( human beings ) and asking Odin whether he wants her to recite ancient lore.

The poem and song titled " Szózat ", which starts with the words Hazádnak rendületlenül légy híve, óh magyar ( To your homeland be faithful steadfastly, O Hungarian ) enjoys a social status nearly equal to that of " Himnusz ", even though only " Himnusz " is mentioned in the Constitution of Hungary.

* Antoine Girard's poem Rome Ridicule starts a fashion for burlesque poetry.

The album starts with the eerie backward sounds of " Hollow Man " ( inspired by T. S. Eliot's poem, The Hollow Men ).

The school chapel was the inspiration behind Newbolt's poem Clifton Chapel, which starts:

When the reader starts reading out a poem on the yomifuda, the players quickly search for the torifuda on which the corresponding lower phrase is written.

* Canadian poet Al Purdy wrote a poem entitled " Lament for the Dorsets " which starts " Animal bones and some mossy tent rings ... all that remains of Dorset giants, who drove the Vikings back to their longships ..." This poem laments the loss of their culture and describes them and their end.

* The poem that appeared anonymously and without a title in a manuscript found in the library of Christchurch, Oxford, and which starts ' Yet if his Majesty, our sovereign lord.

The poem starts:

The back-breaking toil forces Silenus's mind to flee to higher planes, and as he recovers his use of language, he starts work on his Hyperion Cantos, a work he began as a parody of John Keats ' famous poem, but which evolved into a dual account of Silenus's life and an epic account of the Titanomachia, in which the Hegemony of Man takes the part of the Titans and the TechnoCore the Olympians.

The poem starts like this:

The poem starts by quoting from Milton's Paradise Lost as a contrast with the first two lines of the poem itself:

Completed in 1428, this 600-line poem starts immediately after the end of Virgil's epic, and describes Aeneas's marriage to Lavinia and his eventual deification.

* The Scorpion – The poem starts off with a description of Sting-a-ling, a black scorpion who likes to sting people's rumps when in bed.

In Steven Soderbergh's 2002 film Solaris, the male protagonist tries to impress his girlfriend with his knowledge of poet Dylan Thomas, but when she asks him for his favorite poem he comes up with " the one he is most famous for, which starts, um, ' There once was a young man from Nantucket '".

But with her hand poem again.

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??

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

In determining the extent to which any poem is formulaic it is idle, however, to inspect nothing besides lines repeated in their entirety, for a stock of line-fragments would be sufficient to permit the poet to extemporize with deftness if they provided for prosodic needs.

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 ''!!

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

Later legends ( beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD ) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

) along with a short poem utilizing the letter of the page for many of the words.

Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

Ward's music combined with Bates ' poem were first published together in 1910 and titled, America the Beautiful.

Rousseau's conception of alpine purity was later emphasized with the publication of Albrecht von Haller's poem Die Alpen that described the mountains as an area of mythical purity.

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

Writer James Russell Lowell referred to Alcott in his poem " Studies for Two Heads " as " an angel with clipped wings ".

The eddic poem Grímnismál describes twelve divine dwellings beginning in stanza 5 with:

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

The poem was written in Sapphic stanzas, a verse form popularly associated with his compatriot, Sappho, but in which he too excelled, here paraphrased in English to suggest the same rhythms.

This poem doesn't begin with a verb but with an adverb ( Δευτέ ) but still communicates a sense of action.