Poetry for Students, Volume 35

still inside while it burned. Since Japan had been an ally in World War I, western nations kept silent about the atrocities. The ...

August’’ that year, it is as if Pak were saying, ‘‘Stop! This is not the way it was supposed to be. We had such good plans. We h ...

throughout the nineteenth century, walking excursions into this area were popular holiday activities; people visited the Gothic ...

For these two poets with their separate pur- poses, nature provided a constellation of images readers can recognize and see anew ...

face washed clear is that of a child. Usually a Korean mother washes her young children’s faces and hands in the morning. It is ...

—Let just one green bird fly forth from you, Stone monument. Let just one long cry come forth out of you. You, sleeping for a th ...

The ancient mountains have been silent long enough; they seem now to be ready to burst out in fire and become gigantic incense-b ...

his poems of the same period fail to achieve full universality because of excessive personal ‘‘warmth’’ toward some political su ...

Love, I should wake up, Thy warmth touching my body this moment, I should raise my spine like the dawn-wakened sea, Like the fle ...

Finding poetic inspiration in the stones is, to say the least, unusual. However it is natu- ral that Pak Tu-jin should find the ...

Seven Ages of Man William Shakespeare’s ‘‘Seven Ages of Man’’ is a speech from his comedyAs You Like It. The lines may have been ...

Norton, Oxford, and Arden, all of which include extensive commentary and annotations. Author Biography William Shakespeare was b ...

You Like It, which was probably written in 1599, is the last of Shakespeare’s light romantic comedies. The year 1600 is often ci ...

possible toward his destination. During the Elizabethan period, schoolboys would have had to memorize lengthy Latin speeches for ...

of the justice, who makes a good living, as his ‘‘round belly’’ filled with capon attests. A capon (castrated chicken) is a tend ...

Time The passage of time is fundamental to mortal existence. The speaker in ‘‘Seven Ages of Man’’ notes the continuum of time, a ...

contrivance of rigid rhyme schemes. More- over, it sounds like natural speech. Blank verse allows the dramatist the freedom to c ...

There were no hospitals, and most people were born and died in their homes. There were no antibiotics to fight infections, and n ...

people to London, making it the largest city in Europe. Widespread urban disorder developed with a capitalistic economy that rep ...

‘‘a vision of the play that powerfully captures the dramatic movement from pain and fear to rec- onciliation and love.’’ But the ...