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Christmas Time by JS, from I-Like-RhymesNot everyone celebrates Christmas but for most it is still a time of festivity. Here are a few poetic examples of the season through the eyes of various writers.
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on Years Of The Modern by Walt Whitman, 2 hours ago"What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?"
"—Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day;
Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God;"
A lot of the questions Whitman asked over 100 years ago could be asked again this month.
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on Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, 2 hours agoi read this poem once before...it struck me with a lose feeling. i felt empty and uncomplete in my life...it is weird to get that from such a beautiful poem...but it came...and is still there somewhere deep inside me...
i read to get inspired. i am inspired by what i read, feel, and by my own life...(sorry lost train of thought for a second) i wonder what was going through his head when he wrote this poem...what inspried him to write it..tis a lovely poem as all his poems are to me.
"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea." -
on The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, 2 hours agoa desturbing poem but i can see that the character was driven mad by the darckness and being alone. we read this poem in my lit. class and i read it when i am alone and feeling well..open minded as i am always. i enjoy the darckness alot but i also enjoy my sanity. i have been known to lose my sanity when i am acctually alone in the "large" house when it is late at night and the only sound i can hear is the beating of my own heart.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more."
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- Poet & Poem Questions: Perhaps we could post the Urdu versions and meanwhile look ar by I-Like-Rhymes
- Poet & Poem Questions: Naming of Parts by Henry Reed by iaquinta
- Poet & Poem Questions: So, what do you get from the second stanza? by iaquinta
- Poet & Poem Questions: I am happy with the reference to slings and swivels having be by I-Like-Rhymes
- Social: i like the transendetalists...well i like mostly Ralph Waldo by BellaSavannahCullen
- Social: Emerson by Ahkam
- Social: Self-Reliance is a good one..we read it in class last year. i by BellaSavannahCullen


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