In the second stanza, the ocean is beset by winds, and the speaker a sailor; in the third stanza, the ocean is Eden, and the speaker is "rowing" there—a gentler sort of activity than trying to navigate a sailing ship home in a storm. The double nature of passion is thus ...
Written during a time of mass turmoil in Europe, "Lapis Lazuli" contemplates the death and birth of civilizations in general. The poem takes a broad and serene perspective, noting that great civilizations have risen and fallen many times before; they're part of a natural cycle of creation and...
Here, the poet, as an old man, is sailing to Byzantium from Ireland. In the first stanza, he has described the country from which he is sailing away. While, in the second stanza, the poet portrays the benefits of the country of his arrival for an old man like him. The poet begins ...
To also convey sorrowful emotion to the reader she uses hyperbole such as “Sailing a ship board to hell”.… 909 Words 4 Pages Good Essays Read More Poetry essay How does Owen Sheers use language, form and structure to explore ideas about separation and division in ‘Winter Swans’?
Trying to get along with Death And then untie ourselves from Earth Now we vacation on the moon And yes, we’ve flown beyond the stars And can you guess where I just sent this from? I’ll give you a hint- It’s Mars Now we can grow your bones for you ...
This is the first stanza of the sixth part of the poem, ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner‘, wherein the ancient mariner talks about the two invisible voices whom he calls spirits and says that the firstvoiceasked the other to tell it, in its soft voice, how the ship is sailing on,...
Sailing these seas, or on the hills, or waking in the night, Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time, and Space, and Death, like waters flowing, Bear me, indeed, as through the regions infinite, Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear—lave me all over; ...
No hint of death in all his frame, But found him all in all the same, I should not feel it to be strange. XV. To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day: The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; The forest crack’d...
And the "armies" of his beloveds aren't going to let him get away with not standing up for that cause! "They will not let [him] off" until he "respond[s] to them": something about the force of their mutual love also means he has to "sing the body electric." Singing this song...
Poetry and the Titanic — An article from the Library of Congress on how the public used poetry to respond to the sinking, with links to other poems about the ship. Timeline of the Titanic — An interactive timeline of the building, sailing, and sinking of the ship. Titanic Relief Effo...