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The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. [ 1] " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening " is a poem by Robert Frost, written in 1922, and published in 1923 in his New Hampshire volume. Imagery, personification, and repetition are prominent in the work.
The Road Not Taken. " The Road Not Taken " is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation ...
In this poem, the refrains are the lines "Time will say nothing but I told you so" and "If I could tell you I would let you know", with a subtle variation on the first refrain in the final quatrain. Villanelle poems have an intricate rhyme scheme of ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA using only two different sounds, with the A sound including both ...
Tears, Idle Tears. " Tears, Idle Tears " is a lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the "songs" in his The Princess (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics. A Tennyson anthology describes the poem as "one of the most Virgilian of Tennyson's poems and ...
This Is Just To Say. " This Is Just to Say " (1934) is an imagist poem [ 1] by William Carlos Williams. The three-versed, 28-word poem is an apology about eating the reader's plums. The poem was written as if it was a note left on a kitchen table. It has been widely pastiched. [ 2][ 3]
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me. The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight,
This Be The Verse. "This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows . It is one of Larkin's best-known poems; the ...
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. " Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears " is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works. [ 1]