"seizes as Beauty must be truth."" This passage would eventually be transmuted into the concluding lines of ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"": Beauty is truth, truth beauty' – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"". In early December 1816, under the heady influence of his artistic friends, Keats told Abbey that he had decided to give up medicine in favour of poetry, to Abbey's fury. Keats had spent a great deal on his medical training and, despite his state of financial hardship and indebtedness, had made large loans to friends such as painter"
"involvement of the narrator, the description of the urn within the poem implies a human observer that draws out these images. The narrator interacts with the urn in a manner similar to how a critic would respond to the poem, which creates ambiguity in the poem's final lines: ""'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."" The lack of a definite voice of the urn causes the reader to question who is really speaking these words, to whom they are speaking, and what is meant by the words,"
"sacrifice. The final lines of the poem declare that beauty is truth, truth beauty,' – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"", and literary critics have debated whether they increase or diminish the overall beauty of the poem. Critics have focused on other aspects of the poem, including the role of the narrator, the inspirational qualities of real-world objects, and the paradoxical relationship between the poem's world and reality. ""Ode on a Grecian Urn"" was not well received by contemporary critics. It was only by the mid-19th century that it began to be"
"the poet provides a line for the urn, which complicates the narrative and has generated a multitude of critical responses as to the author's intent: ""Beauty is truth—truth beauty / that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know"" (lines 49–50). ""Ode on Indolence"" comprises six stanzas containing ten lines each. The poem discusses a morning of laziness on the part of the narrator, during which his attention becomes captivated by three figures he sees in a vision. Beginning with an epitaph taken from Matthew 6:28, the poet introduces the theme of indolence through an excerpt"
"finds the controversy over the poem's famous lines misplaced, and insists instead that ""the ambiguity"" of ""Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"" is best understood as an expression of the urn itself (151-153). The poem pursues this ambiguity, he writes, in lines that describe the urn on the one hand as a ""bride of quietness"" and a ""foster-child of silence"" and on the other, a ""sylvan historian"" (155). In this way the poem describes the urn in paradoxical terms much as the urn utters a paradoxical line. Brooks"
"physics and cosmology to define truth, outside of empirical considerations. Beauty and Truth have been argued to be nearly synonymous, as reflected in the statement ""Beauty is truth, truth beauty"" in the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats, or by the Hindu motto ""Satyam Shivam Sundaram"" (Satya (Truth) is Shiva (God), and Shiva is Sundaram (Beautiful)). The fact that judgments of beauty and judgments of truth both are influenced by processing fluency, which is the ease with which information can be processed, has been presented as an explanation for why beauty is sometimes equated with truth. Indeed,"
"Folliott Sandford Pierpoint Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (7 October 1835 – 1917) was a hymnodist and poet. Born at Spa Villa, Bath, England, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. Pierpoint was a classics schoolmaster and a devout Tractarian. He taught at Somersetshire College, spending most of his life in Bath and the south-west. He published The Chalice of Nature and Other Poems, republished, 1878, as Songs of Love, The Chalice of Nature and Lyra Jesu. He also contributed hymns to the Churchman’s Companion, The Lyra Eucharistica, etc. His most famous hymn is For the Beauty of the Earth which he"
"(variously identified by the commentators as Nature, Wisdom, Necessity or Themis), by whom the rest of the poem is spoken. The goddess resides in a well-known mythological space: where Night and Day have their meeting place. Its essential character is that here all opposites are undivided, or one. He must learn all things, she tells him – both truth, which is certain, and human opinions, which are uncertain – for though one cannot rely on human opinions, they represent an aspect of the whole truth. The section known as ""the way of truth"" discusses that which is real and contrasts"
"Leo Tolstoy, in his ""What is Art?"", criticized Baumgarten's book on aesthetics. Tolstoy opposed ""Baumgarten's trinity — Good, Truth and Beauty…."" Tolstoy asserted that ""these words not only have no definite meaning, but they hinder us from giving any definite meaning to existing art…."" Baumgarten, he said, claimed that there are three ways to know perfection: ""Beauty is the perfect (the absolute) perceived by the senses. Truth is the perfect perceived by reason. The good is the perfect attained by the moral will."" Tolstoy, however, contradicted Baumgarten's theory and claimed that good, truth, and beauty have nothing in common and"
"Sappho 16 Sappho 16 is a fragment of a poem by the archaic Greek lyric poet Sappho. It is from Book I of the Alexandrian edition of Sappho's poetry, and is known from a second-century papyrus discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt at the beginning of the twentieth century. Sappho 16 is a love poem – the genre for which Sappho was best known – which praises the beauty of the narrator's beloved, Anactoria, and expresses the speaker's desire for her now that she is absent. It makes the case that the most beautiful thing in the world is whatever one"
"for what Ellen Reiss has described as Siegel's ""beautiful, faithful, passionate, critical, loving attention to the world and humanity"". Eli Siegel Eli Siegel (August 16, 1902 – November 8, 1978) was the poet, critic, and educator who founded Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy that sees reality as the aesthetic oneness of opposites. An idea central to this philosophy—that every person, place or thing in reality has something in common with all other things—was expressed in his award-winning poem, ""Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana."" Two highly acclaimed volumes of poetry were published during his lifetime, and in 1958, he was nominated"
"Eli Siegel Eli Siegel (August 16, 1902 – November 8, 1978) was the poet, critic, and educator who founded Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy that sees reality as the aesthetic oneness of opposites. An idea central to this philosophy—that every person, place or thing in reality has something in common with all other things—was expressed in his award-winning poem, ""Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana."" Two highly acclaimed volumes of poetry were published during his lifetime, and in 1958, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Siegel's philosophic works include ""Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism,"" and"
"line (""Like those Nicean barks of yore"") which resembles a line in Coleridge's ""Youth and Age"" (""Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore""). Poe revised the poem in 1845, making several improvements, most notably changing ""the beauty of fair Greece, and the grandeur of old Rome"" to ""the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome."" Poe biographer Jeffrey Meyers referred to these as ""two of Poe's finest and most famous lines"". In referring to Helen, Poe is alluding to Helen of Troy who is considered to be the most beautiful woman who ever lived — according to"
"Paulin Gagne Étienne-Paulin Gagne, known as Paulin Gagne (June 8, 1808 – August 1876) was a French poet, essayist, lawyer, politician, inventor, and eccentric whose best known poem, ""The Woman-Messiah"", is among the longest poems in French, or any language. The poem is 25,000 verses (60 acts and 12 songs) and is notable for its 24th act entitled ""Bestiologie"" which enumerates the advantages that a citizen of Paris would have by marrying the animals of the Jardin des Plantes. He is also notable for proposing ""Anthropophagy"" at a public meeting and offering himself as food to starving Algerians. Gagne was"
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty ""Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"" is a poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816 and published in 1817. ""Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"" was written during the summer of 1816 while Percy and Mary Shelley stayed with Lord Byron near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Percy Shelley sent a finished copy of the poem to his friend Leigh Hunt who immediately lost it. Shelley was therefore forced to create another finished draft of the poem and resend the poem. It was eventually published in Hunt's ""Examiner"" on 19 January 1817. The poem also appeared in the 1819 collection ""Rosalind"
"be: Beauty brag, but 'tis not she; Truth and beauty buried be. To this urn let those repair That are either true or fair; For these dead birds sigh a prayer. The Phoenix and the Turtle The Phoenix and the Turtle (also spelled The Phœnix and the Turtle) is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works and has led to many conflicting interpretations. It has also been called ""the first great published metaphysical poem"". The title ""The Phoenix and the Turtle"" is a"
"the whole book of Revelation in heroic verse, together with original pieces. The versification is remarkably harmonious for the period and the country. The following is an extract from his poem on Cotton Mather: (Massa.-mag. for Apr. 1789"";Backus' hist. abr. 158 ; ""Pref. to his poems"";Specimens of Amer. poetry, I. 67. He died at Cambridge, Massachusetts in January, 1740, at the age of 36, deeply lamented by his acquaintance. John Adams (poet) John Adams (1704 – January 1740) was an American poet. Adams was the only son of Hon. John Adams (merchant) of Nova Scotia, and he graduated from Harvard"
"is murder of beauty! <br> It is now,<br> that I have come to know,<br> the lines of the hand,<br> do not know the hand. In the pursuit of happiness,<br> I have come to know pain,<br> in longing for the day,<br> I have come to know the night. It is a friendship of old, <br> we have known each other for centuries,<br> the difficulties of this world – I,<br> I – the difficulties. Each person here,<br> is bent upon flying,<br> none knows,<br> the timing of wisdom. The bossom of each heart,<br> is not the desert's bossom,<br> – Each eye is not,<br>"
"of new lyrics not found in the original. The track also has a slightly shorter run time of 3:15. For the Beauty of the Earth ""For the Beauty of the Earth"" is a Christian hymn by Folliott S. Pierpoint (1835-1917). Pierpoint was 29 at the time he wrote this hymn; he was mesmerized by the beauty of the countryside that surrounded him. It first appeared in 1864 in a book of Eucharistic Hymns and Poems entitled ""Lyra Eucharistica, Hymns and Verses on The Holy Communion, Ancient and Modern, with other Poems."" It was written as a Eucharistic hymn - hence"
"She Walks in Beauty ""She Walks in Beauty"" is a short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter written in 1813 by Lord Byron, and is one of his most famous works. It is said to have been inspired by an event in Byron's life; while at a ball, Byron saw Mrs. Anne Beatrix Wilmot, the wife of his cousin, Robert Wilmot. He was struck by her unusual beauty, and the next morning the poem was written. It is thought that she was the first inspiration for his unfinished epic poem about Goethe, a personal hero of his. In this unpublished work,"
"For the Beauty of the Earth ""For the Beauty of the Earth"" is a Christian hymn by Folliott S. Pierpoint (1835-1917). Pierpoint was 29 at the time he wrote this hymn; he was mesmerized by the beauty of the countryside that surrounded him. It first appeared in 1864 in a book of Eucharistic Hymns and Poems entitled ""Lyra Eucharistica, Hymns and Verses on The Holy Communion, Ancient and Modern, with other Poems."" It was written as a Eucharistic hymn - hence the title of ""The Sacrifice of Praise"", the refrain ""Christ, our God, to Thee we raise, This, our sacrifice"
"General Non-Fiction and the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction. De rerum natura De rerum natura (; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors. Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world"
"is the Maha-Tripura-sundari who assumes all forms. You and I and all the world and all divinities and all besides are the Maha-Tripura-sundari. The sole Truth is the thing named ""the Beautiful"". It is the nondual, integral, supreme Brahman. </poem> – ""Bahvricha Upanishad"" Verse 5 (Abridged), Translated by AG Krishna Warrier The closing verses of the text asserts that she should be contemplated as ""That which I am"", as ""Sodasi"" and fifteen syllabled ""Sri Vidya"", the power of Savitur, Sarasvati, and Gayatri, the sacred, the mother, the auspicious who chooses her own partner, the mistress, the dark, the light, the"
"so dost thou too, and therein dignified"" (101, 3-4), meaning that both the poet and the Muse are given purpose by their function in praising truth and beauty. As mentioned above, rather than asking for inspiration, the poet demands explanation, though now he presumes his Muse's excuse for the neglect, which the poet takes to be that truth of beauty is self-evident, and needs no further embellishment. It is in the second and third line of this quatrain, or the sixth and seventh lines in the sonnet, where the rhythmic structure of Sonnet 101 becomes noteworthy. Whereas the rest of"
"Pied Beauty ""Pied Beauty"" is a curtal sonnet by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written in 1877, but not published until 1918, when it was included as part of the collection ""Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins"". In the poem, the narrator praises God for the variety of ""dappled things"" in nature, such as piebald cattle, trout and finches. He also describes how falling chestnuts resemble coals bursting in a fire, because of the way in which the chestnuts' reddish-brown meat is exposed when the shells break against the ground. The narrator then moves to an image"
"is everywhere, within and without, asserts the Upanishad. She is pure, she is love and she symbolized as the Tripurasundari goddess is the form of all. She is the ardha matra, last half syllable, of the Om syllable. Her ""Shakti"" is in Om. <poem> She alone is Atman. Other than She is untruth, non-self. She is Brahman-Consciousness. She is the Vidya of Consciousness, nondual Brahman Consciousness, a wave of Being-Consciousness-Bliss. The Beauty of the three-great-cities, penetrating without and within, is resplendent, nondual, self-subsisting. What is, is pure Being; what shines, is pure Consciousness; what is dear, is Bliss. So here"
"all things, and by Thy authority which is exercised over all things, and by Thy own self that shall endure forever after all things have vanished, and by Thy Names which manifest Thy power over all things, and by Thy knowledge which pervades all things, and by the light of Thy countenance which illuminates everything O Thou who art the light! O Thou who art the most holy! O Thou who existed before the foremost! O Thou who shall exist after the last! O Allah! Forgive me my such sins as would affront my continency O Allah! Forgive me my"
"novel ""The Painted Veil"" by W. Somerset Maugham, the last words of the poem ""An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog"", ""The dog it was that died"", are the dying words of bacteriologist Walter Fane, one of the primary characters in the novel. Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel ""The Vicar of Wakefield"" (1766), his pastoral poem ""The Deserted Village"" (1770), and his plays ""The Good-Natur'd Man"" (1768) and ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1771, first performed in 1773). He"
"Every image made divine In our temples is but thine. [Verse 3] Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen, With her hands that strike and her swords of sheen, Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned, And the Muse a hundred-toned, Pure and perfect without peer, Mother lend thine ear, Rich with thy hurrying streams, Bright with thy orchard gleems, Dark of hue O candid-fair [Verse 4] In thy soul, with bejeweled hair And thy glorious smile divine, Loveliest of all earthly lands, Showering wealth from well-stored hands! Mother, mother mine! Mother sweet, I praise thee, Mother great and free! [Verse 5] </poem> Apart"
"De rerum natura De rerum natura (; On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in some 7,400 dactylic hexameters, is divided into six untitled books, and explores Epicurean physics through poetic language and metaphors. Namely, Lucretius explores the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and"
"Parmenides Parmenides of Elea (; ; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (Greater Greece, which included Southern Italy). He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work by Parmenides is a poem, ""On Nature"", only fragments of which survive. In it, Parmenides prescribes two views of reality. In ""the way of truth"" (a part of the poem), he explains how reality (coined as ""what is-is"") is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, necessary, and unchanging. This is generally considered one of the first digressions into the philosophical"
"true you are, and ever shall be. Our love shines clearly against the storm, Turns darkest night to brightest day, Turns turbulent waters to perfect calm, A blazing lamp to light our way. Love is the centre of all we see, Love is the jewel that guides us true, No matter what, love, you'll stay with me, No matter what, my love, I'll stay with you. The water is wide, I cannot get o'er And neither have I wings to fly, Build me a boat that can carry two And both shall row, my love and I. </poem> <poem> The"
"October 1, 1941, aged 52, and was interred at Saint Joseph's Catholic Cemetery in Newton, New Jersey. Five lines from her poem, ""Sanctuary"", are inscribed on her gravestone:<poem>There all bright passing beauty is held forever<br>Free from the sense of tears, to be loved without regret<br>There we shall find at their source music and love and laughter,<br>Colour and subtle fragrance and soft incredible textures:<br>Be sure we shall find what our weary hearts desire.</poem> Aline Murray Kilmer Aline Murray Kilmer (August 1, 1888 – October 1, 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of"