1. Yeats, a friend, and the friend's beautiful companion discuss poetry and love at summer's end. Yeats laments that creating beauty through poetry requires immense labor but is seen as idle by others.
2. The woman notes that women must also labor to be beautiful, though this is not discussed in school.
3. They fall quiet thinking of love, and Yeats privately considers that though their love seemed happy, they had grown as weary as the hollow moon they saw in the sky.
Wordsworth wrote this poem during an evening walk with his daughter Caroline. In the poem, he describes the beauty of the calm and peaceful evening by the sea. He sees the sunset as a holy, sacred time, comparing it to a nun in prayer. Wordsworth senses the power of nature but also sees the divinity in both nature and his daughter, as she walks with innocence close to nature, just as he believes children are closer to God. The poem expresses Wordsworth's view of nature as revealing the divine and his loving relationship with his daughter.
The poem describes Kubla Khan's decree to build the pleasure dome of Xanadu, an earthly paradise. It had fertile grounds enclosed by walls and towers, with bright gardens and ancient forests. However, an untouched chasm represented the untamed natural world beyond man's control. From this chasm emerged a sacred river that meandered for five miles before sinking into a sunless sea, representing the fleeting nature of creative inspiration.
This document provides a summary of American poetry from the 1900s, highlighting several notable poets from that era. It discusses Paul Laurence Dunbar as the first African American poet to make a living from writing. It also mentions poets Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna Millay, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, and Wallace Stevens, providing brief biographical details and examples of their works.
This poem by John Keats describes how beauty in nature can lift the human spirit. It states that a thing of beauty is a joy forever, as its loveliness increases rather than fading. Each day, beauty like the sun, moon, trees, flowers and tales of great men binds us to the earth and lifts our dark spirits, despite hardships like lack of noble role models or gloomy days. The poem finds an endless fountain of immortal drink in nature's beauty that pours from heaven's brink.
This poem by Andrew Marvell describes a "gallery" or collection within the speaker's mind containing various portraits or representations of his love interest, Clora. The gallery walls are decorated with "arras-hangings" made up of many faces. The only furniture contained within is Clora's picture in the speaker's mind. The gallery contains opposing portraits - one depicting Clora as a cruel "murderess" examining the speaker's heart, and another portraying her like the dawn goddess Aurora when she appears beautifully at dawn. The speaker invites Clora to view this interior gallery within his soul and mind.
The poem describes scenes depicted on an ancient Greek urn. It notes the urn's ability to express a story through its visual imagery alone. The poem reflects on the urn's scenes of figures that will remain forever frozen in time, unable to change or age. It ponders the mysteries of the scenes and figures shown, such as their identities, actions, and emotions. The poem emphasizes that the beauty of art and nature can provide lasting enjoyment and meaning even in the face of inevitable human mortality and the passing of time.
The document discusses various elements of poetry including sound, form, structure, meter, rhythm, rhyme, assonance, and alliteration. It provides examples of different poetic forms and their characteristics such as rhyme schemes, line structure, and use of meter. These include the sonnet, blank verse, free verse, and examples from poems by Coleridge, Whitman, Gray, Shelley, and Wordsworth. Scansion and feet are also defined as the basic units of poetic rhythm.
The document contains several poems and short stories on various themes:
1) A poem about Saint Jerome depicts the saint eternally kneeling in penitence.
2) A poem suggests Shakespeare's characters like Hamlet and Lady Macbeth may have benefited from antidepressants.
3) A poem envisions a utopian world where gods of different religions coexist harmoniously.
4) Two sonnets - one questions the depth of a lover's affection, the other desires dreamless sleep.
5) Short stories include Barbie dolls dealing with a melted pink sofa and sibling rivalry.
- John Keats was a Romantic poet born in 1795 who died at age 25. He is known for poems like "Ode on a Grecian Urn" that featured themes of love, betrayal, and nature.
- Keats was one of the second generation of major Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
- His poetry is characterized by sensual imagery and odes to subjects like autumn, nightingales, and Greek antiquity. Today his poems and letters are widely studied in English literature.
The poem discusses how beautiful things are a source of endless joy. A thing of beauty's loveliness never fades but instead keeps increasing. It provides a shelter for sweet dreams, good health, and relaxation. While the earth contains negativity, beautiful aspects of nature like the sun, moon, trees, and flowers lift our spirits. They are like an immortal fountain bestowed by God to inspire us.
The Ancient Mariner tells his tale of killing an albatross and being cursed to wander the seas as punishment. He is saved from drowning but appears as a ghost to the other sailors. He is only relieved of his agony when he tells his story to others to teach them that all of God's creations deserve respect. The wedding guest is so affected by the story that he does not join in the wedding festivities as planned.
The document provides guidance on writing effective descriptive pieces through the use of sensory details, vivid vocabulary, and imagery. It emphasizes selecting precise words that create clear mental images for the reader. Descriptions should focus on the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to immerse the reader in the scene. Excessive or boring descriptions are discouraged in favor of a few carefully chosen similes and metaphors to strengthen the impact. Mood and specificity are also important elements of descriptive writing highlighted in the document.
This document shares four poems from a poetry collection by DM Yates called Stepping Stones to Love Honor and Respect. The poems are: "Give Me But a Rose" which is about showing love through a simple rose; "Drinking Spree" listing alcoholic drinks for different seasons; "The Last Leaf's Abscission" about the last leaf clinging to a bare tree in autumn; and "San Francisco" providing a romantic description of the city. The document also includes two quotes about the importance of reading poetry.
John Keats was an English Romantic poet born in 1795 who became a licensed apothecary but decided to pursue poetry instead. In 1820 he published a volume of poems including "Ode on a Grecian Urn", considered one of his finest works. The ode addresses an urn depicting scenes that will remain forever yet convey a sense of longing and mystery through their stillness. It contemplates themes of art, beauty, transience versus permanence, and the relationship between mortal and immortal.
John Keats' 1819 poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" describes various scenes depicted on an ancient Greek urn, including a lover chasing a maiden, people preparing for a ritual sacrifice, and trees that will never lose their leaves. The poem conveys that while human experiences are fleeting, the beauty captured in art through these scenes on the urn is eternal. It ends by stating "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," suggesting that art provides lasting truth and beauty that transcends the imperfect human world.
This 3 sentence poem describes nature as an untouched bride of quietness and child of silence. It asks the natural historian, or nature itself, to express a sweet floral tale or legend through its shape of deities, mortals, temples or dales of Arcady involving men, gods, maidens, mad pursuit, struggle, pipes and wild ecstasy.
Keats addresses an ancient Greek urn, praising its ability to depict an eternal scene of figures locked in a moment of antiquity. The urn tells a story through its images that is more charming than what Keats can describe with words. It represents the ideas that art provides enduring beauty and truth that can comfort humanity. While Keats ponders the figures and their scene, the urn remains as a symbol of permanence that will outlive his own fleeting generation.
Three Years She Grew by William Wordsworth is a lyrical elegy about a girl named Lucy. Nature takes Lucy under her wing and vows to nurture her into a "Lady of [her] own". Nature educates Lucy through experiences in the natural world. However, before Lucy can become a woman, she dies prematurely, leaving the poet to mourn the "memory of what has been, and never more will be."
The Completed Compendium Of Kaldorei Songs and Poemsdashpot
This document is a collection of poems and hymns dedicated to Elune, the goddess of the moon in Warcraft. It contains 18 poems by Shaelyssa Bladesinger praising Elune and 3 additional poems by Sorayah Moonseeker also in worship of Elune. The collection is divided into parts containing hymns, songs, and haiku focused on Elune and night elf spirituality.
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The document provides information on the Maruti Suzuki Swift automobile. It discusses the features, specifications, fuel economy, interiors, exteriors, ride and handling, marketing strategy, pricing strategies, positioning, models and comparisons to other vehicles of the Swift. Key details include the 1.2 L K-Series engine, fuel efficiency of 14-18 km/L, extensive standard features, nationwide sales and service network from Maruti Suzuki.
Unilever's Pond's toothpaste failed in the Indian market due to brand perception issues. As a skin cream and soap brand, Pond's was associated with smell and topical use, whereas toothpaste is associated with taste and internal mouth use. Customers did not find the brand attributes of Pond's suitable for toothpaste. Similarly, Tata Nano failed due to incorrect positioning as a budget upgrade from two-wheelers, when customers instead aspired to own a regular car. Kellogg's cereal also failed in India by not recognizing that Indians prefer a filling breakfast like chapatis over corn flakes, and by not adapting products to local tastes.
7 Popular Ways To Motivate Your Sales TeamSharon Newey
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This document provides a summary of key principles for becoming a successful salesperson as outlined in the book "The Greatest Sales Training in the World". It discusses 10 sections: 1) Success Habits, 2) Love, 3) Persistence, 4) Self-Esteem, 5) Time, 6) Emotions, 7) Humor, 8) Progress, 9) Action, and 10) Prayer. For each section, it lists habits and mindsets that salespeople should develop, such as starting fresh, choosing optimism, developing people skills, ignoring rejection, controlling emotions, using humor, setting goals, developing an action habit, and praying for guidance. The overall message is that sales success comes from mastering these principles
This document contains poems by various authors on the themes of love and relationships. It includes three poems: Lord Byron's "When We Two Parted" which describes the pain of a separation from a lover; Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Love's Philosophy" about the interconnectedness of all things through love; and Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover" about a man who strangles his lover in a moment of passion.
The document provides examples of different poetry exercises for a teen poetry night, including couplet examples, writing autobiographical poems without pronouns, writing poems made of excuses, writing "identity poems" focusing on a strong part of one's identity, and a fill-in-the-blank "I used to be/now I am" poem format. It also includes brief biographies of 13 famous poets and their most notable poems to use in a poetry matching quiz.
Project for my 12th grade Creative Writing Course at PA Virtual. Five original poems with dedications, five found poems with explications, project dedication, pictures, and bibliography.
The document discusses various elements of poetry including sound, form, structure, meter, rhythm, rhyme, assonance, and alliteration. It provides examples of different poetic forms and their characteristics such as rhyme schemes, line structure, and use of meter. Various poetic devices are defined including stanza, blank verse, sonnet form, and free verse. Examples are given to illustrate different forms of poetry including works by Coleridge, Whitman, Gray, Shelley, and Wordsworth. Scansion and feet are also described as the basic units of poetic meter.
The document contains analyses of four poems:
1) "The New Remorse" by Oscar Wilde, about a passionate love that is impossible or without a future.
2) "I Saw Thee Weep" by Lord Byron, comparing happiness and sadness through rhyme and descriptions of feelings.
3) "Amor eterno" by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, expressing eternal love for a woman that cannot be extinguished, even by death.
4) "The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope, a satirical poem about a petty quarrel between two aristocratic families that escalates due to the theft of a lock of hair.
The World is too much with usThe world is too much with us; la.docxssusera34210
The World is too much with us
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; 5
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. — Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; 10
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
Dog’s Death
She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car.
Too young to know much, she was beginning to learn
To use the newspapers spread on the kitchen floor
And to win, wetting there, the words, “Good dog! Good dog!”
We thought her shy malaise was a shot reaction.
The autopsy disclosed a rupture in her liver.
As we teased her with play, blood was filling her skin
And her heart was learning to lie down forever.
Monday morning, as the children were noisily fed
And sent to school, she crawled beneath the youngest bed.
We found her twisted and limp but still alive.
In the car to the vet’s, on my lap, she tried
To bite my hand and died. I stroked her warm fur
And my wife called in a voice imperious with tears.
Though surrounded by love that would have upheld her,
Nevertheless she sank and, stiffening, disappeared.
Back home, we found that in the night her frame,
Drawing near to dissolution, had endured the shame
Of diarrhea and had dragged across the floor
To a newspaper carelessly left there. Good dog.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’stº possess
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
Because I could not stop for death
Because I could not stop for Death —
He kindly stopped for me —
The Carriage held but just Ourselves —
And Immortality.
We slowly drove — He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility —
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess — in the Ring —
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain —
We passed the Setting Sun —
Or rather — He passed Us —
The Dews drew quivering and chill —
For only Gossamer, my Gown —
My Tippet° — only Tulle — shawl
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground —
The Roof was scarcely visibl ...
The document discusses the use of mentor texts in writing instruction. It defines mentor texts as pieces of literature that can be studied and imitated to help students make connections, take risks, and try new strategies. It recommends using picture books as mentor texts because they provide models and lessons in techniques like sentence structure, word choice, and dialogue. Specific picture books are analyzed as examples for teaching writing techniques.
The document is a magazine called "The Path" that is dedicated to publishing works from emerging writers and helping shorten their path to publication. It includes various poems, essays, and short stories from over 20 contributing authors. The magazine is published semi-annually and provides submission guidelines for authors interested in being considered for future issues.
The document contains a collection of poems and passages about nature and the environment. It explores themes of environmental degradation, the beauty of nature, responsibility towards conservation, and finding spiritual connection with the natural world. The poems express concerns about pollution, depletion of resources, and loss of natural beauty, as well as calls to protect the environment through words and deeds before it's too late.
One heart, one and cupid a kiss for a poem of love in portugueseLeonor Costa
This document contains summaries of 18 poems from English poets such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, William Blake, and Emily Bronte. The poems cover themes of love, friendship, longing, and the fleeting nature of time. They are presented as part of a temporary exhibition on love poems in English.
This document provides an overview of Victorian poets Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Matthew Arnold. It discusses their backgrounds, major works, and poetic forms. It analyzes Tennyson's long poem "In Memoriam A.H.H." which mourned the loss of his friend Arthur Hallam and explored grief, faith, and homoerotic love. It also examines Browning's dramatic monologue "My Last Duchess" told from the perspective of a manipulative Duke, and Arnold's dramatic lyric "Dover Beach" which reflected on loss of faith. The document promotes considering these poems through queer readings that acknowledge Victorian anxieties around same-sex affection.
This document contains several poems submitted for a poetry contest. The poems cover a wide range of topics including nature, love, racial identity, and history. They vary in style from narrative to lyrical to reflective. Overall the collection shows the diversity of experiences and perspectives expressed through poetic works.
A Prayer For My Daughter by W.B. Yeats Prepared by Kaushal DesaiKaushal Desai
William Butler Yeats wrote "A Prayer for My Daughter" to express his hopes and concerns for his newborn daughter's future. He prays that she will be blessed with virtue, wisdom, and kindness over mere beauty. Yeats hopes his daughter will find intimacy through courtesy rather than opinions, and find happiness in custom and ceremony rather than hatred. Overall, the poem reflects a father's desire to guide his daughter to a content life through spiritual qualities rather than superficial ones.
This poem by Lord Byron reflects on the passage of time and how it continues to move forward regardless of one's circumstances. He acknowledges time's role in bringing both joy and sorrow, as it allows memories of past loved ones but also brings the speaker closer to his own death. While time can deform the present, the speaker takes comfort knowing its effects will ultimately be fleeting and meaningless once he is gone and reduced to "a nameless stone."
The document contains several short poems about nature and animals:
1) The first two poems describe clouds sailing across the sky and rainbow bridges as being prettier than boats on rivers or ships at sea.
2) The next poem is a dialogue between a sheep and its master where the sheep explains that while it may seem lazy, it provides wool to keep people warm.
3) Another poem describes a twinkling star in the sky that helps travelers find their way in the dark.
4) The document concludes with additional short poems about bees, dolls, cows, and caterpillars.
This document provides an overview of Victorian poetry and poets such as Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold. It discusses their backgrounds and major works. It also analyzes sample poems, including Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H." which mourns the loss of his friend Hallam, and Browning's dramatic monologue "My Last Duchess" which reveals the controlling nature of the Duke through his story. The document examines poetic forms, themes of loss and faith, and encourages close reading and considering the speaker's perspective.
This document provides an introduction and overview of poetry. It defines poetry as a collection of words that express emotion or ideas. It discusses several key elements of poetry including meter, rhyme, stanzas, and figurative language. Examples are provided to illustrate different types of poetry like free verse, haiku, narrative poems, and sonnets. Common poetic devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, and onomatopoeia are also defined.
The document discusses different types of poems including rhyming verse, free verse, list poems, and haiku. It provides examples of each type and explores poetic techniques such as metaphor, personification, and onomatopoeia. The purpose is to recognize a range of poetic forms and devices used by poets.
2. The Garden of EdenAdam & Eve live in garden of EdenNo knowledge of good and evilOne tree they cannot eat from (Tree of knowledge of good and evil)Devil in form of serpent tempts Eve to eat from the TreeEve tricks Adam into eating from the TreeGod punishes them “for the woman, pain in childbirth and subordination to man, and, for the man, relegation to an accursed ground with which he must toil and sweat for his subsistence.”
3. OverviewDifficulty of creating beautyPerhaps lack of understanding on part of society of a poet’s plight in expression.Expressing Love to Maud GonneLaboriousness of LifeAppearance vs. RealityCondescending, accusatory of society, longing, reflective, depressing.Characters: Yeats, anonymous friend, friend of anonymous friend (one of whom may be Maud Gonne)
4. Read ThroughWe sat together at one summer’s end,That beautiful mild women, your close friend,And you and I, and talked of poetry.I said, “A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.Better go down upon your marrow-bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stonesLike an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by noisy setOf bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymenThe martyrs call the world.” I said, “It’s certain there is no fine thingSince Adam’s fall but needs much laboring.There have been lovers who thought love should beSo much compounded of high courtesyThat they would sigh and quote with learned looksPrecedents out of beautiful old books;Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.”1.Talk of PoetryWe sat grown quiet at the name of love;We saw the last embers of daylight die,And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shellWashed by time’s waters as they rose and fellAbout the stars and broke in days and years.3. Talk of loveAnd thereuponThat beautiful mild women for whose sakeThere’s many a one shall find all heartacheOn finding that her voice is sweet and lowReplied, “To be born women is to know –Although they do not talk of it at school –That we must labor to be beautiful.”I had a thought for no one’s but your ears;That you were beautiful, and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love;That it had all seemed happy, and yet we’d grownAs weary-hearted as that hollow moon. 2. Talk of Beauty
5. Close Read ThroughWe sat together at one summer’s end,That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,And you and I, and talked of poetry.I said, “A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.Better go down upon your marrow-bonesAnd scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stonesLike an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;For to articulate sweet sounds together
6. Is to work harder than all of these, and yetBe thought an idler by the noisy set
8. And Thereupon That beautifulmildwoman for whose sakeThere’s many a one shall find out all heartache
9. On finding that her voice is sweet and lowReplied, “To be born woman is to know --
10. Although they do not talk of it at school –That we must labour to be beautiful.”
11. I said, “It’s certain there is no fine thingSince Adam’s fall but needs much laboring.
12. There have been lovers who thought love should beSo much compounded of high courtesy
13. That they would sigh and quote with learned looksPrecedents out of beautiful old books;
14. Yet now it seems an idle trade enough.”We sat grown quiet at the name of love;
15. We saw the last embers of daylight dieAnd the trembling blue green of the sky
16. A moon, worn as if it had been a shellWashed by time’s water as they rose and fell
17. About the stars and broke in days and years.I had a thought for no one’s but your ears:
18. That you were beautiful, and that I stroveTo love you in the old high way of love;
19. That it had all seemed happy, and yet we’d grownAs weary-hearted as that hollow moon
20. Additional AnnotationIambic Pentameter (seldomly breaks)Constant Rhyme Scheme, (breaks rhyme seldomly)End stopped line vs. EnjambmentSignificance of the Title
21. Conclusion:Life is laborious and filled with strenuous tasks.Yeats displays a certain degree of bitterness towards womenAdam was tricked into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledgePerhaps Yeats feels this as a result of his past with Maud.
22. Works Cited:“Adam’s Curse” Yeats Poetry. Sparknotes. 2010. Web. November 7 2010. http://www.sparknotes.com
Editor's Notes
Summer – Connotation maturity and knowledge Hinting perhaps at the maturity and knowledge of the discussion, or perhaps placing conversation in an eden like setting.End – Loss of innocence? End of eden?Beauty – introduced with the womanEuphony of “W” “er” sounds. Creates scene of serenity
You and I, leaves close friend on line above, and places Maud next to him.Polysyndeton – helps create flowing nature of poem.Poetry is not easy to produce, contrary to popular belief, the maybe adds a certain uncertainty Ties in with how life becomes arduous after the fall of adam. In terms of writing poetry.Dialogue – makes characters more realistic, able to envision the scene better.
Poetry must sound natural, despite taking hours to think of proper words. poem is metapoetic, poetry about poetryCommon for people to assume that inspiration just attacks an artist and he/she can paint beautyMetaphor of writing a poem to stitching and unstitching, like weaving. The arduous task of weaving is often overlooked, perhaps telling of how the arduous task of poetry is often overlooked.
The mental effort of writing a poem far outreaches that of any physical laborSlightly Chauvinistic as he is talking to women in the poem,Use of Cacophanic sounds perhaps to portray his bitterness over the lack of credit attributed to his effortBreaking Stones is mechanical, swing hammer up and down, this is truly what is arbitrary or pointless, not poetry. (can be done my machines)
Perhaps questioning what any old pauper could understand about the writing of poetry, condescending criticism of society. labor of humanity after the fall of adam.Returns to euphony as he speaks of his poetry againAlliteration of Sweet Sounds, emphasis on the words describing his poetry. Perhaps like composing music
Rearticulates his point Enjambment builds suspenseThought has the connotation that they are wrong.Must work hard, put in hours of labor, and then appear to be an idler, paradox of poetry.The noisy set – people conventionally communicate through noise, perhaps yeats views society as barbaric in it’s non appreciation of his work noisy is not a sophisticated word, perhaps to relate to our unsophistication.
Bankers -> moneySchoolmasters -> edcatuionClergymen -> religionMajority of importance in life is placed upon these things.Tone of bitterness, he states it as another person’s opinion, showing his strong belief in the subject.
Euphony followed by Cacophony, perhaps showing his conflict in both loving and being heartbroken by this woman.Fairly simple vocabulary but beautiful in its simplicity, telling of Yeats’ poet’s paradox.Lack of punctuation, flowing, telling of swiftness of her reply perhaps?Shows that many men may have tried to woo this “beautiful mild woman”
Euphony of sweet and low, truly placing emphasis on her beauty.Dialogue, makes situation more realistic, easier to relate, easy to picture.Seems to refute Yeats’ hypothesis, stating that women also understand the arduous task of creating beauty.
Perhaps playing off Yeats’ earlier mention of schoolmasters?The effort women put into beauty is often overlooked by “they”Thematic line, we must labour to be beautiful.
Since Adam’s fall mankind has been given a greater burden of laborSyntax, placed so that rhyme works.Enjambment, places emphasis on Adam’s fallAllusion to the story of Adam and Eve in the garden of EdenUse of Dialogue, makes the text more relatable
The lover’s who thought love, would always have “high courtesy” and that it should be very courteous, polite and kind with no mishaps or bad things, but when in reality love can be very difficult to maintain and that u must work for it to last; hence Adam’s Curse and that everything revolves around laborConnotation of thought – Thought implies that they do not know, that they are wrong.Love is “perfect” in the media these days, archetypal love story of guy and girl meeting and then slowly falling in love and then there is a singular conflict which they resolve after one of them dramatically rushes to the other who is about to leave permanently.Yeats asserts that love is not as simple as “love at first sight” it comprises a lot more emotions and disappointment.Biographical Criticism - Perhaps bitter over Maud Gonne’s constant rejection of him, (three times already)
Since love works through laboring, he’s saying that “lovers” would have to learn about love through precedents of old books, and they would learn and quote the looks. You have to learn how to “love”. Jamie’s Interpretation:Yeats’ believes that love for these lovers has become something mechanic, they know exactly what to say, when to sigh, how to look when they are in love.Alliteration of Learned Looks, emphasis on how the looks are “studied” well known.Learn how to love from old books, but it becomes cliché.Learned and Books -> plays in with scholarly aspect of the matter, as if to say Love were a subject that could be studied.
The last line of the 3rd stanza, and the first line of the 4th stanza both have no rhyming couplets, which follows the flow of the rest of the poem because usually the last 2 lines of a stanza doesn’t have a rhyming couplet, however in this case its just he last line of the 3rd and the first line of the 4th, so there’s some consistency and organization to his poem.The last line of the 3rd stanza is where the quote ends and the speaker stops talking.The first line of the 4th stanza sets in some imagery for the reader, when the poet describes what they are doing, and how they grew quiet in the “name of love”. Being in “love” seemed to be very rare & sacred, so they were having a moment of silent to take it all in, and to not interrupt it anymore then they already have. Idle -> used earlier to describe poetry, to illustrate society’s lack of understanding at the daunting task of love.Perhaps they finally settle on something that is agreeable to them/they can all relate, that Love is truly as difficultBiographical Criticism – could be a touchy subject, Maud already knows that Yeats loves her, could be a silence of awkwardness -> also shows complications of loving someone further, what happens if someone does not love you the same way.
Near rhyme between die and skyThere’s some more imagery in the next two lines; The three friends sat together quietly watching the sun die down as it was getting darker, hence the background.The connotation of the word ember is a glowing piece of coal or wood and it’s usually hot; this depicts a lot about the setting of where they are at, for example the last light of the daylight must be very bright even as they die down, and the heat of the light. Use of personification with the word “trembling” the signifies the color of the sky and the image of the sky being shaky and imperfect, the colors give me imagery. Jamie:End of the daylight -> symbolizes in this context perhaps the end of their conversation. Yeats states in the beginning that they are at summer’s end Summer -> Eden, Eden’s end, realization of good and evil? Story of Eden, god made man and woman aware of pains of life ie: childbirth etc. They have effectively bitten from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, realized the difficult task of life.Alliteration of Daylight Die: emphasis on the timing of the day, significant.Personification of Sky: Skies cannot tremble, creates imagery of scene.
Washed by time’s water; the fact that he’s been living his life loving one person (Maud Gonne) and that he’s ran out of time with her, since this poem was written after her marriage with John Macbride; his love for her was “washed” away by time, since she got married. Simile of moon to a shell that has been worn down by the ocean. Euphony of Moon and Worn, perhaps illustrating gentle nature of the moon the light merely illuminates, there is no scorching or burning, it is just light.Time’s Water: metaphor of time to water, wearing down the moon, slightly depressing.
More connation to time with the words days and years, the stars breaking into the sky; depicting more imagery Next Stanza; even after he ran out of time with her; he only thought of her, and listened to herLabors for her (Maude Gonne’s) love. Jamie:Passing of time, Moon = symbol of their love, Moon is inconsistent, not always there like the stars, sometimes its full, sometimes its crescent, sometimes it isn’t there at all.
Appearance VS. Reality
Iambic pentameter -> closest to how people normally speak, makes the poem seem as if it were a “moment’s thought” however as shown by the line by line literary analysis there is much significance and likely hours of thought placed into it’s writing.Rhyme Scheme -> Rhyme Scheme provides sense of organization, clarity of thoughtPoem fluctuates between End stopped lines and Enjambment, end stopped lines generally portray a happier scene, enjambment portrays a less content subject.