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This delicate poem, whose short lines and short stanzas suggest the droplets of falling rain, was first published in 1917, and the casualties of the First World War may be hinted at by Lawrence’s ‘dead / men that are slain’. The harvest time and Christian redemption are united under the rain falling from heaven. Follow the link above to read all of Lawrence’s autumn poem. Another poem, like the Vaughan, about the silence that follows losing someone. In this poem, Lawrence (1885-1930) laments the fact that all noises become swallowed up again by an overwhelming, all-encompassing silence.

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My weapon has always been language, and I’ve always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they’re flowers, or bridges.” ­—Sandra Cisneros Simonides composed verses almost entirely for public performances and inscriptions, unlike previous lyric poets such as Sappho and Alcaeus, who composed more intimate verses to entertain friends—"With Simonides the age of individualism in lyric poetry has passed." [60] Or so it seemed to modern scholars until the recent discovery of papyrus P.Oxy.3965 [61] in which Simonides is glimpsed in a sympotic context, speaking for example as an old man rejuvenated in the company of his homo-erotic lover, couched on a bed of flowers. [62] Some of the short passages identified by ancient or modern authors as epigrams may also have been performed at symposia. Very little of his poetry survives today but enough is recorded on papyrus fragments and in quotes by ancient commentators for many conclusions to be drawn at least tentatively (nobody knows if and when the sands of Egypt will reveal further discoveries).We Stand with Ukraine Grammarly stands with our friends, colleagues, and family in Ukraine, and with all people in Ukraine. Lessing, writing in the Enlightenment era, referred to him as "the Greek Voltaire." [2] His general renown owes much to traditional accounts of his colourful life, as one of the wisest of men; as a greedy miser; as an inventor of a system of mnemonics; and the inventor of some letters of the Greek alphabet ( ω, η, ξ, ψ). [3] Such accounts include fanciful elements, yet he had a real influence on the sophistic enlightenment of the Classical era. [4] His fame as a poet rests largely on his ability to present basic human situations with affecting simplicity. [5] In the words of the Roman rhetorician Quintilian (35–100 AD):

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This celebrated sonnet by the Bard uses autumnal imagery to reflect the coming of old age – although Shakespeare was probably only in his early thirties (if that) when he wrote the poem. A great example of the pathetic fallacy. (The reference to ‘bare ruined choirs’ in this poem was interpreted by William Empson as a reference to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.) See the link above to read the poem in full. The first poem, ‘Strange fits of Passion’, is relatively unremarkable, but sets up something like a romance, a chivalric tale, in its hints of medieval tale-telling:Excellent choices. You’ve cast a pretty wide net, but if we include classic autumn poems from other languages, I’d nominate Rilke’s “Herbsttag” (“Autumn Day”): Simonides was the first to establish the choral dirge as a recognized form of lyric poetry, [65] his aptitude for it being testified, for example, by Quintillian (see quote in the Introduction), Horace (" Ceae ... munera neniae"), [66] Catullus (" maestius lacrimis Simonideis") [67] and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, where he says: Take your materials from what is around you—if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it’s misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.” —Masaoka Shiki

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The final stanza slows the pace, adopts something closer to the organ-swell of Wordsworth’s favourite pentameter metre, as we are brought to a concluding prayer of thanksgiving:The collection began with Coleridge’s famous ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, a curious tale in a curious attempt at balladic form and stress-based metre. It then cycled through a number of ballads and ballad-like poems celebrating the common humanity of what we might call ‘low’ characters—a reaction to the heroic tradition of the eighteenth century. (However, let me emphasise that this cliché is far from the total truth. Wordsworth read copious amounts of eighteenth-century poetry, and there is much of the style of the time—albeit deeply transformed—in his writing, too. For this side of Wordsworth, read ‘An Evening Walk’, or the wonderful ‘Descriptive Sketches’.) Petrovic, Andrej. 2007. Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften. (Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 282) (Leiden: Brill). Well, this poem was always going to make the list, wasn’t it? Probably the most famous poem about the season in all of English literature, Keats’s ‘To Autumn’ is also one of the finest autumn poems in the language. Jonathan Bate has a fine analysis of this poem in his book of eco-criticism, The Song of the Earth , which points up all of the contemporary allusions to early nineteenth-century politics and history.

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Niemöller, Martin. "First they came for the Socialists..." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . Retrieved 5 February 2011. Usage [ edit ] A US Navy chaplain reads an excerpt of Niemöller's poem during a Holocaust Days of Remembrance observance service in Pearl Harbor; 27 April 2009. Boedeker, Deborah; Sider, David, eds. (2001). The New Simonides: Contexts of praise and desire. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press - USA.Segal, Charles (1985). "Choral Lyric in the Fifth Century". In Easterling, P.; Knox, B. (eds.). Greek Literature. The Cambridge History of Classical Literature. Cambridge University Press. p.244.