The second part of the book shifts to a stoic accusatory tone that reveals the poet's grief and anger as he is forced to choose a life in exile.

The tone of Anacreon's lyric effusions has probably led to an unjust estimate, by both ancients and moderns, of the poet's personal character.

Cynewulf of Lindisfarne ( d. c. 780 ) is a plausible candidate for Cynewulf the poet, based on the argument that the poet's elaborate religious pieces must lend themselves to " the scholarship and faith of the professional ecclesiastic speaking with authority ", but this conclusion is not univecrsally accepted.

others suggest its coming loss or describe the poet's feelings when he learns of a final separation.

It is possible however that the Doric dialect was added by editors in Hellenistic and Roman times, when the poet's home town, Rhegium, had become more Doric than it had been in the poet's own time.

The poet's adolescent years were jarred, however, by his uncle's suicide and by the death of his father from cancer, both in early 1923, when Theodore ( Ted ) was only 15.

In its descriptions of the various courts on their way to the palace, and of the poet's adventures — first, when he incautiously slanders the court of Venus, and later when after his pardon he joins in the procession and passes to see the glories of the palace — the poem carries on the literary traditions of the courts of love, as shown especially in the " Romaunt of the Rose " and " The Hous of Fame.

Gonzales ' first book of poems, Donde el Plomo Flota, is an extended 35-page poem that intertwines personal stories of the poet's childhood and youth with the tense political situation of the 1980s in Honduras, when the Cold War was in full swing.

His decline from the rollicking poet to grieving recluse earned the sympathy of the people of Albany and when he died in 1887, the New York State Assembly ordered his likeness to be chiseled into the " poet's corner " of the Great Western Staircase in the New York State Capitol.

The study of imagery can, apart from helping to understand the meaning of the play, give some insight into the poet's mind, because it shows what ideas come to his mind when in need of poetic expression, thus giving some clues as to his background, his upbringing, his social position, and so on.

A version in the poet's own hand turned up at a later date, but it is not known when it dates from.

The reader also gathers the impression that the height of the poet's imagination is not in proportion with the depth of his piety — there often appears in him something naive, almost homely, as when Mary expresses her pleasure in the Magi and calls attention to their utility for the impending Flight into Egypt.

Even a luminary such as Plato gave credence to the poet's Athenian origin and yet Tyrtaeus wasn't listed by Herodotus among the two foreigners ever to have been awarded Spartan citizenship.

This poem conveys the poet's ideal conception of a perfect knight or happy warrior, comparable, by those who may think fit to compare it, with the more nobly realized ideals of Chaucer and of Wordsworth.

The class has a lot of experiences while in Moscow: Dennis and Arvid take interest in two beautiful women, until they realize they might be KGB spies ; Eric meets up with his relatives in what is a very positive experience for him ; capitalist Alan has an argument with a die-hard socialist in a store ( who is also on the opposing Russian academic team ); Sarah and Darlene decide to record the sights and sounds of Moscow ; Simone goes to put flowers on a poet's grave and meets up with a charming Russian musician ; Dr. Samuels believe that his hotel room is bugged, but he just ends up making a fool of himself ; and Charlie has a brief romance with a schoolteacher.

The Amores are a poetic first person account of the poet's love affair with an unattainable higher class girl, Corinna.

The verse form itself then was little changed as the quality of a poet's hexameter was judged against the standard set by Virgil and the other Augustan poets, a respect for literary precedent encompassed by the Latin word aemulatio.

Suda's extraordinary account of the poet's death is found in other sources, such as Plutarch and Antipater of Sidon and later it inspired Friedrich Schiller to write a ballad called " The Cranes of Ibycus " yet the legend might be derived merely from a play upon the poet's name and the Greek word for the bird or ibyx — it might even have been told of somebody else originally.

The foot is a purely metrical unit ; there is no inherent relation to a word or phrase as a unit of meaning or syntax, though the interplay among these is an aspect of the individual poet's skill and artistry.

Unlike dee jaying ( also known as toasting ), which also features the use of the spoken word, the dub poet's performance is normally prepared, rather than the extemporized chat of the dancehall dee jay.

Using the strength of the compelling poet's word, he may have done away with many civil values, but he wasn't able to see or start something new from the ruins.

The salutative requirement of the traditional hokku is often disregarded, but the hokku is still typically required to include a kigo ( seasonal word or phrase ), and to reflect the poet's current environment.

The repetition of these lines need not indicate a problem with the text ; it could instead indicate the poet's satisfaction with them.

His Italian journey was a poet's version of those perennial thrusts across the Alps of the German emperors of the Middle Ages.

By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.

It was written in 1785 and first published the following year in the poet's own literary journal, Thalia.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

* the poet's attempt to ward off the charge of impiety that was later to overtake his friend Socrates ;

The change in seriousness of purpose between the Eclogues and the Georgics of Virgil was in a great measure the result of the direction given by the statesman to the poet's genius.

In 2007, Simon Armitage, who grew up near the Gawain poet's purported residence, published a translation which attracted attention in the US and the United Kingdom, and was published in the US by Norton.

" From then until its closure in 1946, the press — which was run by the poet's sisters — produced over 70 titles ; 48 of them books by Yeats himself.

A few months after the poet's approach to Maud, he proposed to Iseult, but was rejected.

The poet's mother, on the other hand, who was partly German by extraction, suffered from depression, which afterwards deepened into melancholy madness.

The poet's maternal grandfather, Cesare Beccaria, was a well-known author, and his mother Giulia had literary talent as well.

To those who thought he published too much he quoted Walter de la Mare's observation that time was the poet's best editor.

In 1937, Pushkin's name was appended to the museum, because the Soviet Union marked the centenary of the poet's death that year.

This precept, from one of Bacchylides ' extant fragments, was considered by his modern editor, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, to be typical of the poet's temperament: " If the utterances scattered throughout the poems warrant a conjecture, Bacchylides was of placid temper ; amiably tolerant ; satisfied with a modest lot ; not free from some tinge of that pensive melancholy which was peculiarly Ionian ; but with good sense ..."

The tyrant's apparent preference for Bacchylides over Pindar on this occasion might have been partly due to the Cean poet's simpler language and not just to his less moralizing posture, and yet it is also possible that Bacchylides and his uncle were simply better suited to palace politics than was their more high-minded rival.

After several years of silence, in 1920 he produced a tribute to his friend Debussy in the form of La plainte, au loin, du faune ... for piano, which was followed by Amours, a setting of a sonnet by Pierre de Ronsard, for voice and piano, published in 1924 to mark the five hundredth anniversary of the poet's birth.

According to another view, Lycambes as an oath-breaker had marked himself out as a menace to society and the poet's invective was not just personal revenge but a social obligation consistent with the practice of ' iambos '.

The poet's father ( whose name is unknown ) was a native of Velia but later moved to Naples and spent time in Rome where he taught with marked success.