"who they think are responsible for the kidnapping. In the original, the Goth chief says ""Faut pas chercher à comprendre"", meaning ""We shouldn't try to understand"", a common French phrase with no particular pun attached. In the English version, the chief instead comments ""Ours is not to reason why"", a reference to The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which states in its third stanza ""Theirs not to reason why/Theirs but to do and die"". In earlier translations, such as in ""Valiant"" and ""Ranger""/""Look and Learn"" (see below), other versions of names have appeared. An edited-down version"
"We will remember them. They mingle not with their laughing comrades again; They sit no more at familiar tables of home; They have no lot in our labour of the day-time; They sleep beyond England's foam.</poem> The second line of the fourth stanza, ""Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn"", echoes (probably unconsciously) Enobarbus' description of Cleopatra in ""Antony and Cleopatra"": ""Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale"". It has been suggested that the last word in this line should be ""contemn"" (meaning ""treat with contempt"") rather than ""condemn"". On the other hand ""condemn"" was used when the"
"composed the poem. A quotation appears on the Calgary Soldiers' Memorial. A plaque on a statue dedicated to the fallen in La Valletta, Malta, is also inscribed with these words. <poem style=""margin-left: 1em;"">They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning,"
"share You shall not hear their mirth: Apologia Pro Poemate Meo ""Apologia Pro Poemate Meo"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. The title means ""in defence of my poetry"" and is often viewed as a rebuttal to a remark in Robert Graves' letter ""for God's sake cheer up and write more optimistically - the war's not ended yet but a poet should have a spirit above wars."" Alternatively, the poem is seen as a possible response to ""Apologia Pro Vita Sua"". The poem describes some of the horrors of war and"
"belt of straw and Ivy buds, Thy coral clasps and amber studs, All these in me no means can move To come to thee and be thy love. But could youth last and love still breed, Had joys no date nor age no need, Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy love. </poem> The 20th century poet William Carlos Williams joined the poetic ""argument"" with his poem ""Raleigh was Right"". The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd ""The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"" (1600), by Walter Raleigh, is a poem that responds to and"
"development, education—the combination of experience and contemplation—and that only this process, not the rationality of the previous century, would bring about true Enlightenment. The classical influences Keats invoked affected other Romantic poets, but his odes contain a higher degree of allusion than most of his contemporaries' works. As for the main theme, indolence and poetry, the poem reflects the emotional state of being Keats describes in an early 1819 letter to his brother George: [I]ndolent and supremely careless ... from my having slumbered till nearly eleven ... please has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither Poetry,"
"in Stanza VI and argued, ""This stanza, though not one of the celebrated stanzas of the poem, is one of the most finely ironical. Its structural significance too is of first importance, and has perhaps in the past been given too little weight."" After analysing more of the poem, Brooks points out that the lines in Stanza IX contains lines that ""are great poetry. They are great poetry because ... the children are not terrified... The children exemplify the attitude toward eternity which the other philosopher, the mature philosopher, wins to with difficulty, if he wins to it at all."""
"Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed ""Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed"", originally spelled ""To His Mistris Going to Bed"", is a poem written by the metaphysical poet John Donne. The elegy was refused a licence for publishing in Donne's posthumous collection, ""Poems"", in 1633, but was printed in an anthology, ""The Harmony of the Muses"" in 1654. The poem is classified as one of Donne's love poems, ""marked by an energetic, often bawdy wit, a new explicitness about sexual desire and experience, and an irreverent new attitude towards authority figures"". Several poetic conventions, such as"
"They (poem) They is a 1917 poem by the English soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon published in ""The Old Huntsman and Other Poems"". It disparages the attitude of the established church to the Great War. The first verse of the poem tells of a bishop's speech about the noble sacrifice of the soldiers, and in particular mentions his view that """"they lead the last attack / On Anti-Christ"""". The second verse contrasts with the soldiers' reply, telling of the woes of four common soldiers; the bishop replies that """"The ways of God are strange!"""" The poem is still under copyright"
"them his own. Shackford writes, ""the relationships between the two poems are summed up as this; The theme is the lower or underworld, both devote many stanzas to the description of the underworld, the development of theme is proceeded by descriptions of natural aspects to the description of the listless beings who inhabit the underworld, and that both conclude the third section depicting a central dominate feminine figure."" The poem is mentioned in Lemony Snicket's ""A Series of Unfortunate Events"" (where the first line of the poem, ""Here, where the world is quiet"", was slightly modified to become the motto"
"him to mourn. This is particularly ironic considering that there are lines in other sonnets (e.g., Sonnet 18, Sonnet 55, Sonnet 65 and Sonnet 81) that speak of immortality through poetic verse, thus negating the possibility that one can be forgotten. These examples give credence to Peguiney's argument of a calculated attempt to invoke the youth's mourning, as he writes in his essay Sonnets 71-74, ""The 'if' clauses at lines 5 and 9 are cunning invitations to future readings of the verse, and how impossible it would be for 'you [to] read this [handwritten] line' and 'remember not / The"
"No, I'm not Byron No, I'm not Byron; I am, yet is a poem written by the Russian poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov in 1832. <poem> No, I'm not Byron; I am, yet, Another choice for the sacred dole, Like him - a persecuted soul, But only of the Russian set. I early start and end the whole, And will not win the future days; Like in an ocean, in my soul, A cargo of lost hopes stays. Who, oh, my ocean severe, Could read all secrets in your scroll? Who'll tell the people my idea? I'm God or no one"
"discontent and weakness in old age remain throughout the poem, but Tennyson finally leaves Ulysses ""To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"" (70), recalling the Dantesque damnable desire for knowledge beyond all bounds. The words of Dante's character as he exhorts his men to the journey find parallel in those of Tennyson's Ulysses, who calls his men to join him on one last voyage. Quoting Dante's Ulisse: <poem> </poem> However, critics note that in the Homeric narrative, Ulysses' original mariners are dead. A significant irony therefore develops from Ulysses' speech to his sailors—""Come, my friends, / 'Tis"
"A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind is a satirical poem by the English Restoration poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. ""A Satyr Against Reason and Mankind"" addresses the question of the proper use of reason, and is generally assumed to be a Hobbesian critique of rationalism. The narrator subordinates reason to sense. It is based to some extent on Boileau's version of Juvenal's eighth or fifteenth satire, and is also indebted to Hobbes, Montaigne, Lucretius and Epicurus, as well as the general libertine tradition. Confusion has arisen in its interpretation as it is"
"the time than Walpole claimed. The letters show the likelihood of Walpole's date for the composition, as a 12 June 1750 letter from Gray to Walpole stated that Walpole was provided lines from the poem years before and the two were not on speaking terms until after 1745. The only other letter to discuss the poem was one sent to Wharton on 11 September 1746, which alludes to the poem being worked on. The poem is not a conventional part of the Classical genre of Theocritan elegy, because it does not mourn an individual. The use of ""elegy"" is related"
"at all! </poem> No, I'm not Byron No, I'm not Byron; I am, yet is a poem written by the Russian poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov in 1832. <poem> No, I'm not Byron; I am, yet, Another choice for the sacred dole, Like him - a persecuted soul, But only of the Russian set. I early start and end the whole, And will not win the future days; Like in an ocean, in my soul, A cargo of lost hopes stays. Who, oh, my ocean severe, Could read all secrets in your scroll? Who'll tell the people my idea? I'm God"
"grow together; To themselves yet either-neither, Simple were so well compounded That it cried how true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, reason none If what parts can so remain. Whereupon it made this threne To the phoenix and the dove, Co-supreme and stars of love; As chorus to their tragic scene. THRENOS. Beauty, truth, and rarity. Grace in all simplicity, Here enclos'd in cinders lie. Death is now the phoenix' nest; And the turtle's loyal breast To eternity doth rest, Leaving no posterity:-- 'Twas not their infirmity, It was married chastity. Truth may seem, but cannot"
"treating of that Poetry, which is estimated by the pleasure it affords to the ear—the ear having been corrupted and the judgment-seat of the perceptions; but of that which proceeds from the intellectual Helicon, that which is ""dignified"", and appertaining to ""human"" feelings, and entering into the soul.""—The 13th Sonnet [...] the 19th [...] and the 25th [...] are compositions of, perhaps, unrivalled merit. Yet, while I am selecting these, I almost accuse myself of causeless partiality; for surely never was a Writer so equal in excellence!"" Coleridge's quoting of Maximus Tyrius leaves out part of Maximus's quote that suggests"
"""Reliquae Wottonianae"" (1685), John Locke's ""An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"" (1690), Joseph Addison's ""Cato, a Tragedy"" (1712), Edward Young's ""Night-Thoughts"" (1742) and James Hervey's ""Meditations and Contemplations"" (1746) and ""Theron and Aspasio"" (1755). The Jerome reference is found in Steelyard's comment ""Says Jerome happiness is not for us poor crawling reptiles of the earth Talk of happiness & happiness its no such thing – every person has a something."" The Taylor reference is Steelyard’s poem; ""Hear then the pride & knowledge of a Sailor/His sprit sail fore sail main sail & his mizen/A poor frail man god wot I know"
"is the source of his triumph."" In the 1930s and 1940s, critics emphasised the content of the poem, and some felt that it fell short of what was necessary to make it truly great. In 1930, William Empson, while praising the form of the poem as universal, argued against its merits because of its potential political message. He claimed that the poem ""as the context makes clear"", means that ""18th-century England had no scholarship system of ""carriere ouverte aux talents"". This is stated as pathetic, but the reader is put into a mood in which one would not try to"
"hope they knew, and mocked the cross and flame. They met the tyrant's brandished steel, the lion's gory mane; they bowed their heads the death to feel: who follows in their train? A noble army, men and boys, the matron and the maid, around the Savior's throne rejoice, in robes of light arrayed. They climbed the steep ascent of heaven, through peril, toil and pain; O God, to us may grace be given, to follow in their train. </poem> The Son of God Goes Forth to War The Son of God Goes Forth to War (1812) is a hymn by"
"sources have been suggested as an inspiration for Burns. A contemporary poem, ""O fare thee well, my dearest dear"", written by a Lieutenant Hinches bears a striking similarity to Burns's verse, notably the lines which refer to ""ten thousand miles"" and ""Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear"". A ballad originating from the same period entitled ""The Turtle Dove"" also contains similar lines, such as ""Though I go ten thousand mile, my dear"" and ""Oh, the stars will never fall down from the sky/Nor the rocks never melt with the sun"". Of particular note is a collection of verse"
"the extra-unstressed syllable as well. This idea of nature is also reflected in Philip C. Kolin's analysis of the last part of the poem as well. Kolin's observation of Shakespeare's discussion of the man being for ""women's pleasure"" does not lend itself to this idea of bisexuality or gender-bending at all. Kolin is saying that nature made him for ""women's pleasure"" and that is what is ""natural"". Kolin goes on to say that the phrase ""to my purpose nothing"" also reflects this natural aspect of being created for women's pleasure. In this, however, he takes no account of Shakespeare's common"
"poem to have more grace and wit. However, scholarly analysis of the poem has not produced agreement or convincing results and much depends on how we interpret the poet's tone. The reference to Leto is obscure but she may have had some connection with Salamis or perhaps there was a temple to her at Corinth. These lines introduced one of Timocreon's most bitter denunciations of Themistocles, according to Plutarch. The reference to a docked tail is usually understood to indicate some mishap the poet suffered. Plutarch identified Themistocles as one of the other 'scoundrels' referred to in the poem. These"
"Ubique (poem) ""Ubique"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Boer War, published in ""The Five Nations"" in 1903. Its title is derived from the Motto and Battle Honour of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, however the opening lines are attributed to the lack of knowledge of Latin within the ordinary ranks of the Gunners. Ubique is pronounced ""Ooh-Bee-Kway"", but is generally pronounced as ""You-Bee-Kway"". T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". Ubique (""everywhere"" in Latin) is the motto of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. It was given to"
"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"
"nothing less music for the mind. Such is the caliber of poetry by George Witte that is now compiled into Deniability. This is Witte's second anthology and is particularly notable for his deft skills in creating memorable verse. 'Just Cause': A line is crossed, unnoticed by command/But photographed in fame's amoral flash./Bodies piled, trophy game atop which rests/One boot; smiles of shy surprise, unabashed.//Another line and wilderness surrounds/Us, humid aisles where everything's displayed/Conscripted to absolve our choices God/Deserts to find a new identity.//We bushwhack through thick scrub, directionless/The way's degraded, markers overgrown/Where filthy water swamps the lowest place/We lost crusaders"
"other, mostly classical works, from each of his lines. The seven-line poem, according to Poe's notes, refers to John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"", William Shakespeare, and Alexander Pope. Written in 1847 for Marie Louise Shew, voluntary nurse of Poe's wife Virginia, it was not published until March 1848 in ""Columbian Magazine"" as ""To —— ——."" Poe never pursued a romantic relationship with Shew, and the poem has no strong romantic overtones. It discusses the writer's inability to write, distracted by the thought of ""thee."" The poem also references an earlier poem of Poe, ""Israfel."" Never published in Poe's lifetime, it was"
"his lyre, and blends with the address the praises of the Greek poet Alcaeus. I.33, ""Albi, ne doleas plus nimio memor..."" – The Faithless Glycera – A consolation to the contemporary poet Tibullus over a lost love. I.34, ""Parcus deorum cultor et infrequens..."" – The Poet's Conversion from Error – After hearing thunder in a cloudless sky, Horace renounces his former error and declares his belief in Jupiter, Fortuna, and the superintending providence of the gods. I.35, ""O diva, gratum quae regis Antium..."" – Hymn to Fortuna – The poet invokes Fortune as an all-powerful goddess. He implores her to"
"poem has been set to music by Aaron Copland as the twelfth song of his song cycle ""Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson"". And again, by John Adams as the second movement of his choral symphony ""Harmonium"", and also set to music by Nicholas J. White as a single movement piece for chorus and chamber orchestra. Natalie Merchant and Susan McKeown have created a song of the same name while preserving Dickinson's exact poem in its lyrics. Because I could not stop for Death ""Because I could not stop for Death"" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously"
"And death shall have no dominion ""And death shall have no dominion"" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). The title comes from St. Paul's epistle to the Romans (6:9). In early 1933 Thomas befriended Bert Trick, a grocer who worked in the Uplands area of Swansea. Trick was an amateur poet who had several poems published in local papers. In spring 1933 Trick suggested the two men both write a poem on the subject of 'immortality'. Trick's poem, which was published in a newspaper the following year, contained the refrain ""For death is not the end."""
"just can't make you out. Where do these unctuously clear, idealistically sublime, youthful verses come from? Could Schopenhauer or any other philosopher be behind the origins of these lyric moods of yours, the psychic processes behind it?.. I'm tempted to suspect there is some other being, unseen to us, mere mortals, lurking down there, amidst glowing light, with eyes azure, and wings behind!.. You've grown old, while he stays young. You deny everything while he is a believer. You despise life while he, down on his knees, bursts into tears readily when witnessing any of its true manifestations!.."" According to"
"them by King William IV in 1832 and in 1833 it was further granted as a battle honour to the Royal Artillery in place of all former and later battle honours they could receive. Ubique (poem) ""Ubique"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Boer War, published in ""The Five Nations"" in 1903. Its title is derived from the Motto and Battle Honour of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, however the opening lines are attributed to the lack of knowledge of Latin within the ordinary ranks of the Gunners. Ubique is pronounced ""Ooh-Bee-Kway"", but is generally pronounced as ""You-Bee-Kway""."