COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath... The National Review - Side 403redigeret af - 1855Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| Elaine Jordan - 1988 - 212 sider
...energy aggrieved at limits, such as death. Tennyson is a great poet of anxiety, and also of serenity: In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. (The Lotos-Eaters, 1832, 3-9) My main decision in ordering his poems has been to take the 'English... | |
| John Hollander - 1990 - 280 sider
..."afternoon" and repeated "land," instead of another word to rhyme with its occurrence two lines back — "In the afternoon they came unto a land / In which it seemed always afternoon" — herald a coming lassitude and abandon, as if the description itself were like a whiff of the narcotic... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
..."Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." s froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What (1. 1—4) 81 A land where all things always seemed the same! And round about the keel with faces pale.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 sider
...has his own humor, and original rhythm, music and images. How ring his humorsome lines in the ear,— "In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon."55 The Old Year's Death56 pleases me most. But why I speak of him now is because he had... | |
| David Hill Radcliffe - 1996 - 262 sider
..."Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it...Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. (Poetical Works, 51) This metaphorical stream of verse echoes and burlesques Thomas Gray's "Progress... | |
| Douglas Robillard - 1997 - 244 sider
...diction has a Tennysonian ring, and the landscape is somewhat like that of "The Lotos-Eaters," where "the languid air did swoon, / Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." The stream in Ishmael's picture does not move, but the artist must give it the sense of movement, for... | |
| Elizabeth Webber, Mike Feinsilber - 1999 - 614 sider
...place in his 1832 poem The LotosEaters — it was a place "In which it seemed always afternoon./All round the coast the languid air did swoon, /Breathing like one that hath a weary dream." The lotus here is probably not the water lily, but the buckthorn, a shrubby plant with a sweet juice... | |
| Philip Gaskell - 1999 - 188 sider
...the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon " 1n the afternoon they came unto a land 1n which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, 5 Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the ialley stood the moon; And like... | |
| Jane Polden - 2002 - 385 sider
...and treacherous seas of the beginning of the second half of life. Denial: Eating the Lotus ... aland In which it seemed always afternoon, All round the...did swoon Breathing like one that hath a weary dream ... A land where all things always seem'd the same. From 'The Lotos-Eaters' by Tennyson Monica refers... | |
| Wendy Jean Katz - 2002 - 292 sider
...instance, cited an excerpt from "Lotos Eaters" in the Dial as an example of Tennyson's "humoursome lines:" "In the afternoon they came unto a land / In which it seemed always afternoon." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow gave as an example of "no lovelier picture nor more true" Tennyson's lines... | |
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