'Nevermore' is the last word of the final eleven stanzas of what famous poem?
"""Nevermore,"" he says, is based on logic following the ""unity of effect."" The sounds in the vowels in particular, he writes, have more meaning than the definition of the word itself. He had previously used words like ""Lenore"" for the same effect. The raven itself, Poe says, is meant to symbolize ""Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance"". This may imply an autobiographical significance to the poem, alluding to the many people in Poe's life who had died. It is uncertain if Poe really followed the method he describes in ""The Philosophy of Composition."" T. S. Eliot said: ""It is difficult for us"
"familiar to readers today. For the 1881 edition, the original strophes numbered 14, 15, and 16 were combined into the revised 14th strophe; strophes numbered 17 and 18 were combined into the revised 15th strophe. The material from the former strophes numbered 19, 20 and 21 in 1865 were combined for the revised 16th and final strophe in 1881. According to literary critic and Harvard University professor Helen Vendler, the poem ""builds up to its longest and most lyrical moment in canto 14, achieves its moral climax in canto 15, and ends with a coda of 'retrievements out of the"
"Bilbo's Last Song Bilbo's Last Song is a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was given by Tolkien as a gift to his secretary Joy Hill in 1966. Although it was never published in the author's lifetime, it was the first work of Tolkien to see the light of publication following his death in 1973. It has been published in text form and set to music several times. The poem is sung by Bilbo Baggins at the Grey Havens, as he is about to leave Middle-earth forever. Chronologically this places it at the very end of ""The Return of"
"Edgar Allan Poe in a one-man theatrical show entitled ""Nevermore...an Evening with Edgar Allan Poe"" at The Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, CA. Although only supposed to run for a month, the show enjoyed much success and sold-out crowds, and was extended four times. ""Nevermore"" as it is now simply known, closed its run in Los Angeles on December 19, 2009. The show had its East Coast debut on 23 and 24 January 2010 at Westminster Hall in Baltimore, MD, Poe's final resting place. A tour of the Saturn Award nominated ""Nevermore"" is now in the works, with stops possibly"
"The poem in its various written forms was lost by the end of the 16th century, but manuscripts from as early as the 13th century were re-discovered during the 18th century. There are thirty-seven known manuscripts of the ""Nibelungenlied"" and its variant versions. Eleven of these manuscripts are essentially complete. The oldest version seems to be the one preserved in manuscript ""B"". Twenty-four manuscripts are in various fragmentary states of completion, including one version in Dutch (manuscript 'T'). The text contains approximately 2,400 stanzas in 39 ""Aventiuren"". The title under which the poem has been known since its discovery is"
"Pan Tadeusz Pan Tadeusz (full title in English: ""Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Lithuanian Foray: A Nobleman's Tale from the Years of 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse""; Polish original: ""Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu księgach wierszem"") is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book was first published in June 1834 in Paris, and is considered by many to be the last great epic poem in European literature. ""Pan Tadeusz"" is recognized as the national epic of Poland. It is"
"Branagh at the end of Episode 4 of the 1987 BBC series ""Fortunes of War"", following the death of one the main characters. Death Be Not Proud (poem) Sonnet X, also known by its opening words as ""Death Be Not Proud"", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was not published during Donne's lifetime; it was first published posthumously in 1633. It is included as one of the nineteen sonnets that comprise Donne's ""Holy Sonnets"""
"Death Be Not Proud (poem) Sonnet X, also known by its opening words as ""Death Be Not Proud"", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was not published during Donne's lifetime; it was first published posthumously in 1633. It is included as one of the nineteen sonnets that comprise Donne's ""Holy Sonnets"" or ""Divine Meditations"", among his most well-known works. Most editions number the poem as the tenth in the sonnet sequence, which follows the"
"more temporal shape as three of the ten lines begin with the words ""for ever"". The unheard song never ages and the pipes are able to play forever, which leads the lovers, nature, and all involved to be: A new paradox arises in these lines because these immortal lovers are experiencing a living death. To overcome this paradox of merged life and death, the poem shifts to a new scene with a new perspective. The fourth stanza opens with the sacrifice of a virgin cow, an image that appeared in the Elgin Marbles, Claude Lorrain's ""Sacrifice to Apollo"", and Raphael's"
"Bede's Death Song ""Bede's Death Song"" is the editorial name given to a five-line Old English poem, supposedly the final words of the Venerable Bede. It exists in multiple copies, in both Northumbrian and West Saxon dialects. Bede died on Thursday, 26 May 735 (Ascension Day) on the floor of his cell, singing ""Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit"" and was buried at Jarrow. Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede's, wrote a letter to a Cuthwin (of whom nothing else is known), describing Bede's last days and his death. According to Cuthbert, Bede"
"in any bygone pages of mine, for that matter”. The collection closes with the poet's final farewell: ""He Resolves to Say No More"". Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres is the last, posthumous collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy, and was published in 1928. The collection shows Hardy continued his metrical experimentation to the end, with his poetic energies undiminished. While the collection mainly featured recent poems (post 1925), the subject matter was diverse and ranged back over much of Hardy's past. Notable autobiographical poems include ""A Private Man on"
"William Wordsworth whose poems were most famous and influential. Wordsworth's poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"", inspired by the sight of daffodils on the shores of Ullswater, remains one of the most famous in the English language. Out of his long life of eighty years, sixty were spent amid its lakes and mountains, first as a schoolboy at Hawkshead, and afterwards living in Grasmere (1799–1813) and Rydal Mount (1813–50). Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey became known as the Lake Poets. The poet and his wife lie buried in the churchyard of Grasmere and very near to them are the remains"
"Sonnet 117 Shakespeare's sonnet 117 was first published in 1609. It uses similar imagery to Sonnet 116 and expands on the challenge in the closing couplet (""If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved""). Using legally resonant metaphors (""accuse"", ""bonds"", ""proof"", ""appeal"", ""prove""), the poet defends himself against accusations of ingratitude and infidelity by saying that he was merely testing (or proving) the constancy of those same things in his friend. Sonnet 117 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet."
"the badge worn by the crew of Count Olaf's submarine ""Carmelita"" in ""The Grim Grotto"", the eleventh book in Lemony Snicket's ""Series of Unfortunate Events"". In the book Guest is mocked as a ""writer of limited skill, who wrote awkward, tedious poetry on hopelessly sentimental topics"" (""The Grim Grotto"" (2004) page 281). In the novel ""I Am Legend"", the main character Robert Neville sardonically comments on his own internal monologue: ""The last man in the world is Edgar Guest"". Guest's poem ""It Couldn't Be Done"" was recited by Idris Elba on the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year Award on"
"span, and portrayed lives of wealth and power as ultimately subject to a nomad's whims (an allusion to death). The poem continues to be hailed as distilling """"the teachings of thousands of years into one summary form""."" All verses in the poem end on the same refrain: ""Sab thaath para reh javega, Jab laad chalega banjara"" (""All your splendor will lie useless, when the nomad packs-up and leaves""). By itself, the refrain is frequently used in popular culture as a reminder that death is the ""great leveler"" and it is short-sighted to sacrifice conscience to greed. The refrain is sometimes"
"his time as a volunteer in the fight for liberation against Napoleon's French Empire. His last epic romantic work ""Die Bezauberte Rose"" (1818) is a poem of classic beauty of style. It is in three cantos, comprising 107 stanzas of ottava rima. The 'enchanted rose' is a princess named Klothilde who has been placed under a spell. After various, powerful suitors have failed to secure her release, the minstrel Alpino is successful and she is restored to her proper form. In a poetic symmetry, Schulze died, like his belovèd Cäcilie, of consumption at the age of twenty-eight, a few days"
"lie / Deserts of vast eternity. Andy Marvell, What a Marvel'. The line ""A fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace"" appears in Stephen King's novel ""Pet Sematary"". The line ""My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow"" is quoted by William S. Burroughs in the last entry of (July 29, 1997). To His Coy Mistress ""To His Coy Mistress"" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. This poem is"
"London periodical ""Polar Star"". Death of the Poet ""Death of the Poet"" () is an 1837 poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in reaction to the death of Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin was mortally wounded in a duel on January 27, 1837, and died on the 29th. Lermontov began his first formulation of the poem (ending with the phrase ""...his lips forever sealed"") as soon as he heard of the event, and within a short time copies of the poem began to be circulated in St. Petersburg. Within days the doctor Nikolai Arendt visited Lermontov (who was ill) and told him the"
"Harewood reads it for the 2002 compilation album, ""When Love Speaks"" (EMI Classics) Sonnet 19 Sonnet 19 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is considered by some to be the final sonnet of the initial procreation sequence. The sonnet addresses time directly, as it allows time it's great power to destroy all things in nature, but the poem forbids time to erode the young man's fair appearance. The poem casts time in the role of a poet holding an “antique pen”. The theme is redemption, through poetry, of time's"
"keel was visible and then she was ""swallowed up, for ever, in a whirlpool of confounding waters"". The ""London"" took with her two hundred and forty-four persons. It was reported that the last thing heard from the doomed ship was the hymn ""Rock of Ages"". The nineteen people who got away in her cutter were the only ones saved. They were picked up next day by the barque ""Marianople"" and landed at Falmouth. ""The Wreck of the Steamer 'London' while on her way to Australia"" is a poem by Scottish poet William McGonagall, one of his many poems based on"
"remember that we must live wisely and well in the present, as the future is uncertain. III.30, ""Exegi monumentum aere perennius..."" – The Poet's Immortal Fame – In this closing poem, Horace confidently predicts his enduring fame as the first and greatest of the lyric poets of Rome. He asserts: ""Exegi monumentum aere perennius"" (I have raised a monument more permanent than bronze). Horace published a fourth book of ""Odes"" in 13 BC consisting of 15 poems. Horace acknowledged the gap in time with the first words of the opening poem of the collection: ""Intermissa, Venus, diu / rursus bella"
"The Last of the Light Brigade ""The Last of the Light Brigade"" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"". Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently"
"major sea-power of the ancient world, who had committed suicide rather than submit to slavery at the hands of the Romans. This might have some bearing on the song's famous refrain ""Britons never will be slaves!"". Incidentally, Thomson wrote the word ""never"" only once, but it has been popularly corrupted to ""never, never, never"", possibly because it is actually easier to sing. The same theme was repeated in the Navy's own ""Heart of Oak"", written two decades later: ""To honour we call you, as freemen not slaves/For who are so free as the sons of the waves?"". In 1751 Mallet"
"his life in battle for his Faith. Yet the influence of the folk-epic is quite evident, as, for instance, in the passage where the emperor's dazzling eyes are described. Altogether, there are 9094 verses. The form is the short rhymed couplet, the rhyme being often mere assonance. No complete manuscript of the poem exists. The oldest and most important manuscript, that of Strasburg, was burned during the siege of 1870. A portion of it had appeared in print in Schilter's ""Thesaurus"" as early as 1727. Next in importance is the Heidelberg manuscript, adorned with thirty-nine miniatures. The other extant manuscripts"
"their nation once and for all. The fourth stanza recalls popular heroic figures and moments of the Italian fight for independence such as the battle of Legnano, the defence of Florence led by Ferruccio during the Italian Wars, the riot started in Genoa by Balilla, and the Sicilian Vespers. The last stanza of the poem refers to the part played by Habsburg Austria and Czarist Russia in the partitions of Poland, linking its quest for independence to the Italian one. The last strophe was deleted by the author, to the point of being barely readable. It was dedicated to Italian"
"no longer being taken on active service. Rudyard Kipling, who had researched this battle in 1892, included this small yet dramatic poem about the action at Maiwand in his Barrack-Room Ballads collection. ""That Day"" extract:- The events of the battle were also commemorated in a poem by Scottish poet William McGonagall: ""The Last Berkshire Eleven."" Poems of the victory at Maiwand have passed into Pashtun and Afghan folklore. As Afghan legend would have it, the battle created an unlikely hero in the shape of an Afghan woman called Malalai, who on seeing the Afghan forces falter, used her veil as"
"of his dream. He dreamt that he was surrounded before the race by horses and riders, all dead, who told him how to ride Rio Grande that day. But the race was to end in tragedy with horse and rider both dying. Rio Grande's Last Race Rio Grande's Last Race is a racing poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton ""Banjo"" Paterson. It was first published in the London ""Sketch"" magazine on 16 December 1896. It was later published as the title poem for Paterson's second poetry collection, ""Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses"", in 1902. The poem"
"Something is imminent – and it’s dire. Our era is over – Europe’s on fire!""). Probably the most famous line of the poem is ""Du må ikke tåle så inderlig vel den urett som ikke rammer deg selv!"" (""You must not tolerate so well the injustice that doesn't affect you yourself!"") During the German occupation of Norway from 1940 in World War II, he wrote to inspire the Norwegian resistance movement. He wrote a series of poems which were clandestinely distributed, leading to the arrest of both him and his future wife Margrete Aamot Øverland in 1941. Arnulf Øverland was"
"The Song of Roland The Song of Roland () is an epic poem (Chanson de geste) based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature and exists in various manuscript versions, which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in the 12th to 14th centuries. The date of composition is put in the period between 1040 and 1115: an early version beginning around 1040 with additions and alterations made up until about 1115. The final text has about 4,000 lines of poetry. The epic poem"
"Sonnet 19 Sonnet 19 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It is considered by some to be the final sonnet of the initial procreation sequence. The sonnet addresses time directly, as it allows time it's great power to destroy all things in nature, but the poem forbids time to erode the young man's fair appearance. The poem casts time in the role of a poet holding an “antique pen”. The theme is redemption, through poetry, of time's inevitable decay. Though there is compunction in the implication that the young man"
"Harlequins!"". Annabel Lee ""Annabel Lee"" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love for her so strong that even angels are envious. He retains his love for her even after her death. There has been debate over who, if anyone, was the inspiration for ""Annabel Lee"". Though many women have been suggested, Poe's wife Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe is one of the more credible"
"all the universe, Abandoned, without love or hope!..."". Demon (poem) Demon () is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in several versions in the years 1829 to 1839. It is considered a masterpiece of European Romantic poetry. Lermontov began work on the poem when he was just 14 or 15, but completed it only during his Caucasus exile. Lermontov wrote six major variations of the poem, and the final version was not published until 1842, after his death. The poem is set in Lermontov's beloved Caucasus Mountains. It opens with the eponymous protagonist wandering the earth, hopeless and troubled. He"
"once – / Now I kiss you who could never sing Bach, never read Shakespeare. The final lines of ""Autobiography"" express Zukofsky's fear of permanent alienation from his upbringing and tradition as a bitter triumph of successful assimilation: ""Keine Kadish wird man sagen"". The lines are a variation on lines from Heinrich Heine's poem ""Gedächtnisfeier"" (Memorial): ""Keine Messe wird man singen, / Keinen Kadosch wird man sagen, / Nichts gesagt und nichts gesungen / Wird an meinen Sterbetagen"". (""No Mass will anyone sing / Neither Kaddish will anyone say, / Nothing will be said and nothing sung / On my"