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Nov 6, 2018 · ‘Song of Myself’ is perhaps the definitive achievement of the great nineteenth-century American poet Walt Whitman (1819-92), so we felt that it was a good choice for the second in our ‘post a poem a day’ feature.
Jul 3, 2024 · James Arthur’s 2019 collaboration with Anne-Marie, “Rewrite the Stars,” isn’t your typical love song. It’s a defiant anthem against the constraints of fate and societal expectations, a passionate plea for two souls to choose their own destiny in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
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The speaker addresses the Fair Youth telling him that the love they have is far more important than who the stars or sun are shining on at any one time. Those who have awards, power, and many friends only have them temporarily. Like a marigold flower, these people will die when the sun no longer shines on them. The love the Fair Youth and the speak...
‘Sonnet 25’ by William Shakespeare is a fourteen-line sonnet that is structured in the form known as a “Shakespearean” or English sonnet. The poem is made up of three quatrains, or sets of four lines, and one concluding couplet, or set of two rhyming lines. In a singular departure from this poem, the poem does not follow the usually consistent rhym...
Shakespeare makes use of several poetic techniques in ‘Sonnet 25’. These include but are not limited to metaphor, enjambment, and alliteration. The first, metaphor, is a comparison between two unlike things that does not use “like” or “as” is also present in the text. When using this technique a poet is saying that one thing is another thing, they ...
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In the first lines of ‘Sonnet 25,’ the speaker begins by addressing his love, the Fair Youth, and explaining his current state of mind. He is considering fortune, fate, and even popularity. He tells the youth that others can “boast” about their favor with the stars. They can brag and rant about their public honors and their fortunes, but the speaker does not need to. He is not lucky enough to be part of this same group and get the same rewards. He has a different kind of joy, the joy of the F...
Lines 5-8
The second quatrain of ‘Sonnet 25’ refers to “Great princes” and couriers. They enjoy increased status and popularity because they are favored, like marigold flowers. The popular might be beautiful now, the speaker says, but things are eventually going to change for them. They will, when the sun (fate, the king, other rich people) no longer shines on them,die off. The “frown”of someone more powerful will force them to die.
Lines 9-12
In the next four lines, the speaker continues on to compare his own happiness to that of a great warrior. This warrior was famous for the “thousand victories” he won over his opponents, but eventually, he is forgotten, as are his deeds. He is “razèd” from the book of honor.
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May 10, 2018 · ‘The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ is Christopher Marlowe’s most widely anthologised and best-known poem (he also wrote plays, including The Jew of Malta and Dr Faustus, which would influence Shakespeare’s early plays).
William Blake's poem “The Tyger” from Songs of Experience contains one couplet whose meaning has always puzzled me, lines 17–18, the first two lines of the fifth stanza: When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears. What do these two lines mean?
“Bright Star” is a sonnet by the British Romantic poet John Keats. Written in 1818 or 1819, the poem is a passionate declaration of undying, constant love. The speaker wants to be “stedfast”—constant and unchanging—like the “bright star” described in the poem’s first eight lines.
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Feb 11, 2016 · Through his poetic, inspirational words, late astronomer Carl Sagan helped us realise that life on Earth is a precious gift. Here, we've paired the latest photos from the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope with some of Sagan's best quotes, which shine a glimmering light on who we are, why we're here, and where we're going.
