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May 13, 2011 · An analysis of the The Prelude, Book 1: Childhood and School-time poem by William Wordsworth including schema, poetic form, metre, stanzas and plenty more comprehensive statistics.
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Childhood And School-time. Was it for this That one, the fairest of all Rivers, lov'd To blend his murmurs with my Nurse's song, And from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flow'd along my dreams?
- "INVICTUS" // W.E. HENLEY. Perhaps no other poet on this list put their struggles down on paper as succinctly as W.E. Henley did with "the age of Invictus."
- "THE RED WHEELBARROW" // WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS. It was originally published without a title—simply known by the number XXII—but "The Red Wheelbarrow" has grown into one of the most memorable short poems of the 20th century.
- "IF—" // RUDYARD KIPLING. There may be no more fitting national mantra for the British people than Rudyard Kipling's "If—." The poem, which champions stoicism, is routinely one of the UK's favorites in polls, with lines like "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/And treat those two impostors just the same" and "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew/To serve your turn long after they are gone" serving as a rallying cry for the stiff-upper-lip crowd.
- "JABBERWOCKY" // LEWIS CARROLL. Long before Lewis Carroll introduced the nonsensical "Jabberwocky" in 1871's Through the Looking-Glass, he wrote a rough version of the poem in 1855 under the title "Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry."
Mar 17, 2017 · Whether it’s Wordsworth recalling his schooldays in The Prelude, or Shakespeare’s Jaques describing the schoolboy ‘creeping like snail / Unwillingly to school’, poets have often written about school, whether fondly or critically, from the teacher’s or the pupil’s perspective. Here are ten of the finest poems about school and ...
Dec 14, 2023 · Prince William was born on 21st June 1982 at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, the first son of the then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana. On that day, not only did he become the first British royal to ever be born in a hospital, but he also became the first future King to be born in a hospital.
He began writing poetry as a young boy in grammar school, and before graduating from college he went on a walking tour of Europe, which deepened his love for nature and his sympathy for the common man: both major themes in his poetry.
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Oct 6, 2018 · William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and died at the age of eighty, rich in the knowledge of his huge accomplishments, in Rydal Mount, Westmorland, in 1850.
