Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. BurchI crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. I stalk the streets, silent and starving. Bread does not satisfy me; dawn does not divert me from my relentless pursuit of your fluid spoor....
In the following sonnet, we journey with a soul navigating through the darkness of regret and despair, seeking the light of redemption and forgiveness. Each line explores the profound journey of healing from past transgressions, illustrating a pilgrimage not just through physical landscapes but through...
Dark images of violence, loss, anguish and despair, reappear at two levels, the intimate, within the relationship, and the wider social and political through the loss of home, migration, an apocalyptic destruction through fire. In the first sonnet we learn ‘They were members of a cargo-cult...
For health reason, Hardy left London in the summer of 1867 and returned to Dorset working briefly as an assistant in church restoration. He decided to give up writing poetry and began to draft a novel The Poor Man and the Lady. The book was completed in 1868 but was rejected by publisher...
An exact dating of the composition of Reipublicae christianopolitanae descriptio is not possible269 It was published in 1619 in Strasburg by the firm of Lazarus Zetzner, who also brought out Mythologiœ Christianœ, Memorialia, Turris Babel, Geistlic
4. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, ...
The poem, a sonnet, goes on in this often funny, clever way as the arrow imagines the ways it will take a life, and ends with the closing couplet: You can’t match stick and feather with your arms I’m the bird superlative, and you’re for the worms. ...
The little reason that is left in me, And still th'effect of thy persuasions prove: I swear, my heart such one shall show to thee That shrines in flesh so true a deity, That Virtue, thou thyself shalt be in love. 5 It is most true, that eyes are formed to serve ...
2. Like a sonnet, each stanza is fourteen lines long, “turns” or shifts its argument near the middle, and ends in a couplet(in the Shakespearean manner). Stylistic features 3. The rhyme scheme of the opening twelve lines of each stanza is in terza rima. This form, derived from ...
Define Sidney. Sidney synonyms, Sidney pronunciation, Sidney translation, English dictionary definition of Sidney. Sir Philip 1554-1586. English poet, politician, and soldier. His works include the sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella and the collection