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By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine;
Make not your rosary of yew-berries,
Nor let the beetle, nor the death-moth be
Your mournful Psyche, nor the downy owl |
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John Keats
Ode On Melancholy
Sadness isn't all bad, it lets us better see the good in life |
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I.A. Richards
Practical Criticism |
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From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory: |
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Shakespeare
Sonnet 1
Talking of the beauty of youth |
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When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, |
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As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart; |
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An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. |
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| polyvalence or ambiguity or polysemy |
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| the presence of multiple, simultaneous meanings (in words, phrases, etc.) |
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| a figure of speech where one thing is used to indicate a closely associated other thing. |
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| figure of speech where a part of something is used to signify the whole |
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| bold overstatement; exaggeration |
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| when the implied meaning of a statement differs sharply from the literal meaning |
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| a metaphor or simile that establishes a striking parallel, usually ingeniously elaborate, between two very dissimilar things or situations. |
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Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells,
Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells:
In truth the prison, into which we doom |
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Nuns fret not
William Wodsworth
Nuns are happy in their place |
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I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master. |
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One Art
Elizabeth Bishop
dealing with loss |
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In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong
To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide. |
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Piano
D.H Lawrence
Doesnt want the song to make him sad |
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But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,
And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?
-Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,
And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan...
These purblind Doomsters(4) had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain. |
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Hap
Thomas Hardy
Things are up to chance |
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Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor. |
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Elegy Written in a Courtyard
Thomas Gray
Pastoral poem |
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