1.of country life.a pastoral scene.pastoril 2.of a pastor, or his work.pastoral responsibilities.pastoral Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visitthe webmaster's...
Death, life, life struggles, and humanity are all incredibly complex, and the flexibility of free verse allows poets to explore such topics and themes in a more nuanced and personal way (where the free verse form can even reflect the poet themselves). This versatility enables the representation...
As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.The very deeps did rot: O Christ!That ever this should be!Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.About, about, in ...
In 1923 he spent six months on a ship traveling to West Africa and Europe, including Paris and England. Hughes returned to America in 1924 and moved in with his mother in Washington, D.C. He found employment as a personal assistant at the Association for the Study of African American Life...
It seems to demand the sacrifice of "genius," condemning rebellious thinkers to "poverty," "suicides," "animal screams," and other kinds of suffering and death. It also destroys the creations, insights, and spiritual experiences of these rebels, selling their "Visions," "miracles," "Dreams,...
I've let so much go; I'm like a thirty-year-old freighter ship that's empty of everything but my name and address, which I'm holding onto tightly. The hospital staff has washed me clean of everything I cared about. Naked and afraid on the green gurney with plastic pillows, I left...
“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.” (Because I Could Not Stop for Death,Emily Dickinson) Rhyme Royal:A Rhyme Royal is a stanza composed of seven lines with a complex rhyme scheme. Rhyme Royals are...
Furthermore, it suggests that if he were to let out his innermost thoughts and feelings with the innocent intentions of trying to free himself of them, it would have unforeseen negative consequences. He then describes his mind as “ship-wrecked” (34) and only able to find a “violent ...
4. A ship in sail, a blooming flower, a town at night, a lovely poem, leaf shadows, a child`s grace, the starry skies, apple trees in spring—the thought of beauty—these are the drops of rain that keep the human spirit from death by draught. 扬帆的航船,绽放的鲜花,夜晚的小镇,优...
They have all passed on, like a shadow, and like a fleeting rumour…] The biblical passage goes on to provide several similes that convey the fleeting- ness of human existence, such as the passing of a ship through the waves or the flight of a bird through the air that leave no trail...