Famous Poems Explained: Helps to Reading with the Understanding, with Biographical Notes of the Authors RepresentedNoble and Noble, 1909 - 237 oldal |
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55. oldal
... reader should study out all of these double meanings or puns - there are more than a dozen of them - for the poem is simply an exercise in turning words to eccentric uses . A list of these verbal twists might be made . There is nothing ...
... reader should study out all of these double meanings or puns - there are more than a dozen of them - for the poem is simply an exercise in turning words to eccentric uses . A list of these verbal twists might be made . There is nothing ...
65. oldal
... Readers . The people of mountainous countries have always been supposed to be more zealous for their freedom than dwellers in the low countries , and this is why the author puts Freedom on the mountain top ( first line ) . He fancies ...
... Readers . The people of mountainous countries have always been supposed to be more zealous for their freedom than dwellers in the low countries , and this is why the author puts Freedom on the mountain top ( first line ) . He fancies ...
70. oldal
... reader should re - create in his imagination . THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM It is Southey here gives us a fine piece of sarcasm . in fact a most severe criticism of war , although pre- tending to praise its glories . Many thousand men fell at ...
... reader should re - create in his imagination . THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM It is Southey here gives us a fine piece of sarcasm . in fact a most severe criticism of war , although pre- tending to praise its glories . Many thousand men fell at ...
91. oldal
... readers as this splendid oriental picture of the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the hosts of the Assyrian king . Sennacherib was in some respects the most interesting of Assyrian monarchs and a typical representative of ...
... readers as this splendid oriental picture of the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the hosts of the Assyrian king . Sennacherib was in some respects the most interesting of Assyrian monarchs and a typical representative of ...
105. oldal
... of course , if the reader have a nautilus shell so that he may see its " chambered cells , " its " sunless crypts , " its " irised ceiling , " its " idle doors . " It is well to conceive of the author with a THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS 105.
... of course , if the reader have a nautilus shell so that he may see its " chambered cells , " its " sunless crypts , " its " irised ceiling , " its " idle doors . " It is well to conceive of the author with a THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS 105.
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Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
Aladdin's Alfred Tennyson angel Armageddon army Arnold von Winkelried Baal battle battle of Blenheim beauty bird break Captain chamber CHAMBERED NAUTILUS Cromwell dark dead death died door echoes England English Excelsior eyes fall famous victory fate father fire flag forest forever Forever-never Freedom's George Gordon Byron gleaming glory Greece hands heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Honor ideal imagination Isles Isles of Shoals Killingworth king knew lamp land Lenore Light Brigade lines literary literature lived Longfellow Lord meaning Nelly Gray never Never-forever Nevermore night o'er picture poem poet poetry Quoth the Raven Raven Rhodora roar sail sandpiper says Sennacherib shell ship shore sing snow song soul sound stanza Star-Spangled Banner stars storm story sweet Tennyson thee things thou thought tread Tubal Cain Ulalume unto verse voice wave wild wind woods word
Népszerű szakaszok
94. oldal - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
195. oldal - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!
193. oldal - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door — Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
197. oldal - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
118. oldal - My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is...
112. oldal - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
204. oldal - Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown Of thee from the hill-top looking down; The heifer that lows in the upland farm...
67. oldal - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
112. oldal - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
213. oldal - Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And tempted her out of her gloom, And conquered her scruples and gloom; And we passed to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the door of a tomb, By the door of a legended tomb; And I said— "What is written, sweet sister, On the door of this legended tomb?" She replied— "Ulalume— Ulalume— 'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!