"hostesses birth control pills that prevent reproduction but do not interfere with sexuality. Billy is not a strong alpha-male hero. He is not physically attractive and does not seek power. He intends to bring an innocent pleasure back into the world and tries to express his tenderness by leaving Nancy a book of poetry containing Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ""How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,"" which was the poem his grandfather read to his grandmother on their wedding night. He does not see his actions as real violations toward the hostesses. He explains to Nancy that what"
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, known for its first line ""Come live with me and be my love"", is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe and published in 1599 (six years after the poet's death). In addition to being one of the best-known love poems in the English language, it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the late Renaissance period. It is composed in iambic tetrameter (four feet of unstressed/stressed syllables), with seven (sometimes six, depending on the version) stanzas each"
"edition in Britain 1824 with a reprinting in 1825. Suggesting the passing of a single day, ""The Loves of the Plants"" is divided into four cantos, all written in heroic couplets. A preface to the poem outlines the basics of the Linnaean classification system. Guiding the reader through the garden is a “Botanic Muse” who is described as Linnaeus's inspiration. Interspersed between the cantos are dialogues on poetic theory between the poet and his bookseller. The poem is not a narrative; instead, reminiscent of the picaresque tradition, it consists of discrete descriptions of eighty-three separate species which are accompanied by"
"The King's Way ”The King’s Way” is a poem set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1909. The words were written by his wife, Caroline Alice Elgar. Elgar employs the melody of the ""Trio"" (central section) from the Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4, which he had composed two years earlier. This first occurs at the words """"The newest street in London town,/ Who'll pace it up and pace it down?"""" The song was written on 27 December 1909 to celebrate the opening of London's Kingsway, a wide street in central London connecting High Holborn to the"
"The Beginnings ""The Beginnings"" is a 1917 poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. The poem is about how the English people, although naturally peaceful, slowly become filled with a hate which will lead to the advent of a new epoch. The first four stanzas have four lines each with alternate rhymes, while the fifth (and final) stanza has five lines. The last line of every stanza ends with ""... the English began to hate"". The context is the anti-German sentiment in Britain during World War I. Kipling was known for never portraying Germans in a positive light, and had"
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways ""She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in ""Lyrical Ballads"", 1800, a volume of Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement. The poem is the best known of Wordsworth's series of five works which comprise his ""Lucy"" series, and was a favorite amongst early readers. It was composed both as a meditation on his own feelings of loneliness and loss, and as"
"poem influenced by Chaucer's ""Parliament of Fowls"". In the poem, the nightingale praises love but the cuckoo mocks it for causing more trouble than joy. The poem is written as a literary dream vision and is an example of medieval debate poetry. A concerto inspired by the poem was composed by Handel. It apparently also influenced works by both John Milton and William Wordsworth. Clanvowe also wrote ""The Two Ways"", a penitential treatise. He is first mentioned in the ""History of English Literature"" by F. S. Ellis in 1896. ""The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"" had previously been attributed to Chaucer,"
"English Romantic sonnets The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523 sonnets, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. The sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure, the invention of which is credited to the thirteenth century Italian poet Giacomo Da Lentini, and was subsequently made famous by Petrarch. Thomas Wyatt, in the early 16th century, introduced the sonnet into England. However, it was the Earl of Surrey who developed the rhyme scheme – ""abab cdcd efef gg"""
"that he is very sorry she was dead ... but he has not said this."" These parodies were intended to question definitive interpretation of the verse, and highlight its indeterminacies. She dwelt among the untrodden ways ""She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in ""Lyrical Ballads"", 1800, a volume of Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement. The poem is the best known of Wordsworth's series of five"
"My Heart and Lute ""My Heart and Lute"", sometimes known by its first line, ""I give thee all, I can no more"", is a song/poem by Thomas Moore. In ""Through the Looking-Glass"" by Lewis Carroll, Alice recognizes the tune used in the song called ""Ways and Means"" sung by the White Knight. <poem> I give thee all—I can no more Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee. A lute whose gentle song reveals the soul of love full well; And, better far, a heart that feels Much more"
"uses a Welsh poetic form, the ""awdl"", and Welsh orthography; for example: The poem consists of 96 lines in 13 stanzas. It is an address to Christ through the Virgin Mary. An alternative claim for the first poem in English written by a Welshman is made for John Clanvowe's ""The Book of Cupid, God of Love"" or ""The Cuckoo and the Nightingale"", a long love poem based on ""The Owl and the Nightingale"". Garlick, Raymond, and Roland Mathias. ""Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1990"" (Bridgend: Seren, 1995). Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (?1430 - ?1480) was a Welsh poet, from"
"love, we know how species run extinct'), satires ('The way of the human variety, / Not even happy just being happy'), elegies ('The cold edge of the world closed on you, kissed / You shut'), and songs of sorrow ('Seasons start slowly. They end that way too'). The original rhyme scheme devised for this sequence—ABCABCDEFDEFGG—allows the author to dust off of the Italian 'little song' and Americanize the Elizabethan love poem for the twenty-first century. Speaking at times ""in propria persona"" ('We'll head out, you and me, have a pint'), in the voices of both male and female characters ('I'm"
"Each example below is from a different century. The first is from Chaucer who may have introduced the form into English. The second is from 15th century Scotland where the Scottish Chaucerians widely cultivated it. The third is from Thomas Wyatt who initiated the renaissance of English poetry. <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;""> The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his aventures fellen Fro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye, My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye, Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyte Thise woful vers, that"
"in his ""Divine Comedy"", Shelley uses a unique terza rima pattern to create a structure like the flow of the wind, and yet contain the poem, so there is a sense of closure at the end. English Romantic sonnets The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523 sonnets, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. The sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure, the invention of which is credited to the thirteenth century Italian poet Giacomo Da Lentini,"
"for later works, the ""Confessio"" is nonetheless significant in its own right as one of the earliest poems written in a form of English that is clearly recognizable as a direct precursor to the modern standard, and, above all, as one of the handful of works that established the foundations of literary prestige on which modern English literature is built. Confessio Amantis Confessio Amantis (""The Lover's Confession"") is a 33,000-line Middle English poem by John Gower, which uses the confession made by an ageing lover to the chaplain of Venus as a frame story for a collection of shorter narrative"
"Sonnet 75 Sonnet 75 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. The poet expresses his complete pleasure in the presence of his beloved, but says that his devotion resembles that of a miser to his money, filled with anxiety combined with pleasure in his wealth. Sonnet 75 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the"
"Rutter sets both poems, giving Marlowe's words to words tenors & basses, with the women singing Raleigh's reply, and by letting to the men sing over the women changing the feel from question and reply to two people not listening each other. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, known for its first line ""Come live with me and be my love"", is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe and published in 1599 (six years after the poet's death). In addition to being one of the best-known love poems in the English"
"in many of his poems. Such a reliance on assonance is found in very few English poems. Within ""Ode to a Nightingale"", an example of this pattern can be found in line 35 (""Already with thee! tender is the night""), where the ""ea"" of ""Already"" connects with the ""e"" of ""tender"" and the ""i"" of ""with"" connects with the ""i"" of ""is"". This same pattern is found again in line 41 (""I cannot see what flowers are at my feet"") with the ""a"" of ""cannot"" linking with the ""a"" of ""at"" and the ""ee"" of ""see"" linking with the ""ee"""
"Sonnet 80 Sonnet 79 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence, and the third sonnet of the Rival Poet sequence. The poet’s strategy in this sonnet is to present himself as humble and less talented than the other poet, and to the urge the young man to at least value the poet’s love. The sonnet uses nautical metaphors. The poet begins with a conventional seeming opening line, ""O, how I faint when I of you do write”, causing the reader to expect, in"
"of distress. Sonnet 92 Sonnet 92 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 92 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, """" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 5th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: The 12th"
"her; a humble plea from the speaker to woo the mistress in question. Sonnet 136 Sonnet 136 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Sonnet 136 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form ""abab cdcd efef gg"" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 7th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: The 9th line begins with a common metrical"
"appeared. His major works were: Cooper's collected ""Poetical Works"" were published in London, 1877. Thomas Cooper (poet) Thomas Cooper (20 March 1805 – 15 July 1892) was an English poet and among the leading Chartists. His prison rhyme the ""Purgatory of Suicides"" (1845) runs to 944 stanzas. He also wrote novels, and in later life religious texts. He was an autodidact, who worked otherwise as a shoemaker, preacher, schoolmaster and journalist, before taking up Chartism in 1840. He was a passionate, determined and fiery man. Cooper was born in Leicester, and apprenticed to a shoemaker. In spite of hardships and"
"Sonnet 92 Sonnet 92 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 92 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, """" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 5th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: The 12th line exhibits"
"acrostic poem written in English by Edgar Allan Poe is entitled simply ""An Acrostic"": <poem style=""margin-left: 2em""> Elizabeth it is in vain you say ""Love not""—thou sayest it in so sweet a way: In vain those words from thee or L.E.L. Zantippe's talents had enforced so well: Ah! if that language from thy heart arise, Breath it less gently forth—and veil thine eyes. Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried To cure his love—was cured of all beside— His follie—pride—and passion—for he died. </poem> In Lewis Carroll's ""Through the Looking-Glass"", the final chapter ""A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky"" is an acrostic"
"Sonnet 147 Sonnet 147 is one of 154 sonnets written by English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Sonnet 147 is written from the perspective of a poet who regards the love he holds for his mistress and lover as a sickness, and more specifically, as a fever. The sonnet details the internal battle the poet has between his reason (or head) and the love he has for his mistress (his heart). As he realizes his love is detrimental to his health and stability, perhaps even fatal, the poet's rationality attempts to put an end to the relationship. Eventually, however, the"
"company. This is not a common approach in poem endings, but Whitman also wants to make his readers question, “do you want to complete the journey alone, or do you want to accompany someone for the rest of your life's journey?” By leaving his readers questioning their life choices, Whitman is able to help them figure out their life in a way. Song of the Open Road (poem) ""Song of the Open Road"" is a poem by Walt Whitman from his 1856 collection ""Leaves of Grass"". The poem can be split in two parts, Sections 1-8 and Sections 9-15. During"
"Sonnet 61 Sonnet 61 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 61 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, containing three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, ""abab cdcd efef gg"" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The seventh line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: The first and third lines have"
"am, the wits of former days / To subjects worse have given admiring praise."" Sonnet 59 Sonnet 59 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a part of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 59 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme, ""abab cdcd efef gg"" and is written a type of poetic metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic"
"things found in nature, such as the stars, the sea, and ""the heavens."" For Wordsworth, being likened to nature is the highest compliment possible. 1807 in poetry London, 1802 ""London, 1802"" is a poem by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In the poem Wordsworth castigates the English people as stagnant and selfish, and eulogises seventeenth-century poet John Milton. Composed in 1802, ""London, 1802"" was published for the first time in ""Poems, in Two Volumes"" (1807). Wordsworth begins the poem by wishing that Milton were still alive, for ""England hath need of thee."" This is because it is his opinion"
"Sonnet 118 Sonnet 118 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 118 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet. It consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet, with the characteristic rhyme scheme ""abab cdcd efef gg"". It is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 13th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: Lines 5, 6, 7, and 8 each"
"the 10th line ""starvèd"" functions as 2. Sonnet 75 Sonnet 75 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. The poet expresses his complete pleasure in the presence of his beloved, but says that his devotion resembles that of a miser to his money, filled with anxiety combined with pleasure in his wealth. Sonnet 75 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It"
"The Rolling English Road ""The Rolling English Road"" is one of the best-known poems by G. K. Chesterton. It was first published under the title ""A Song of Temperance Reform"" in the ""New Witness"" in 1913. It was also included in the novel by Chesterton, ""The Flying Inn"" in 1914. The poem is written in heptameters. Alliteration is plentiful and ""a particularly useful device in the last line of each stanza, playfully yoking the far-flung places together (Birmingham/Beachy Head, etc) and reminding us that, like a pub comic, our narrator is, supposedly, improvising his tall story. When he drops the"
"Sonnet 50 Sonnet 50 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. It is continued in Sonnet 51. Sonnet 50 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, containing three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, ""abab cdcd efef gg"" and is written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line. The first line exemplifies a regular"