Thou fair-haired angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed! Smile on our loves, and while thou drawest the Blue curtains of the sky, scatter thy silver dew On every flower that shuts its sweet eyes In timely sleep. Let thy west wing sleep on The lake; speak silence with thy glimmering eyes, And wash the dusk with silver. Soon, full soon, Dost thou withdraw; then the wolf rages wide, And the lion glares through the dun forest. The fleeces of our flocks are covered with Thy sacred dew; protect with them with thine influence.
“To The Evening Star”14 lines in free verse , first appeared in his 1783 collection Poetical Sketches By One Of The Greatest artistic and literary geniuses of the 18th and 19th centuries and a very famous Poet ( of Romanticism ) William Blake , is About personified “Evening Star” , actually a 2 Nd Planet Venus : Known also as Sister Planet of Earth ; for protection and guidance . Evening Star ,the “fair-hair’d angel” of the evening, while the sun rests on the mountains, puts her bright torch of love and radiant crown and ruler over the landscape with her silvery aura and Put on, smile upon our evening bed! Moreover, when the night is about to over, the star, as a guardian spirit of the evening, protects every creature and objects with her “sacred dew” engendered from the tears of the goddess. : : The Poem presents the conflict between innocence and experience as well as about the goddess Venus and how she beautifies Nature during the evening. While the star is in the sky, the world is full of peace, calm, and love—but when she withdraws, lion glares , that is , angrily stares through the dun forest showing cruelty, and wolf rages wide . Without heavenly light the world becomes a dark unsafe and dangerous place. : : : :
Oh, pale-haired angel of twilight! Now that the sun has sunk low enough to touch the mountaintops, light your beacon of love; put on your shining crown, and smile down on us as we go to bed. Smile on us as we make love. And, as you draw the sky’s blue bedcurtains, sprinkle silvery dew on all the flowers as they go to sleep. Allow your servant, the west wind, to come to a rest on the waters of the lake; with a glance of your shining eyes, decree that all should be silent, and fill the darkening air with silvery light. All too soon, you’ll disappear—and then, wolves will roam free, and lions’ eyes will gleam menacingly in the dark forest. Our sheep’s wool is beaded with your silvery dew: please keep our flocks safe with your gentle power. : : : :
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Apollo : Greek God harnessing his chariot with Four horses everydaydrive the Sun across the sky.Classical statue of Cupid with his bow : : Cupid /ˈkjuːpɪd/ (Latin: Cupīdō [kʊˈpiːdoː], meaning “passionate desire”) is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the god of war Mars. He is also known as Amor /ˈæmər/ (Latin: Amor, “love”). His Greek counterpart is Eros. Although Eros is generally portrayed as a slender winged youth in Classical Greek art, during the Hellenistic period, he was increasingly portrayed as a chubby boy. During this time, his iconography acquired the bow and arrow that represent his source of power: a person, or even a deity, who is shot by Cupid’s arrow is filled with uncontrollable desire. In myths, Cupid is a minor character who serves mostly to set the plot in motion. He is a main character only in the tale of Cupid and Psyche, when wounded by his own weapons, he experiences the ordeal of love. Although other extended stories are not told about him, his tradition is rich in poetic themes and visual scenarios, such as “Love conquers all” and the retaliatory punishment or torture of Cupid : Cupid’s Hinduism equivalent KamadevaMosaic (detail) of Tethys, from Philipopolis (modern Shahba, Syria), fourth-century AD, Shahba Museum. : : In Greek mythology, Tethys (/ˈtiːθɪs, ˈtɛθɪs/; Ancient Greek: Τηθύς, romanized: Tēthýs) was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, a sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids. Although Tethys had no active role in Greek mythology and no established cults, she was depicted in mosaics decorating baths, pools, and triclinia in the Greek East, particularly in Antioch and its suburbs, either alone or with Oceanus.: : Tethys married her brother Oceanus, an enormous river encircling the world, and was by him the mother of numerous sons (the river gods) and numerous daughters (the Oceanids). According to Hesiod, there were three thousand (i.e. innumerable) river gods.Tethys was the Greek goddess of freshwater who bore six thousand children to her husband Oceanus. Those children became the rulers of all rivers, streams, lakes, and rain clouds. She was also a devoted mentor and caretaker of Hera who would become Zeus’s wife, and the grandmother of the popular goddess Athena.
Senke, strahlender Gott, die Fluren dürsten Nach erquickendem Tau, der Mensch verschmachtet, Matter ziehen die Rosse, Senke den Wagen hinab. Siehe, wer aus des Meers kristallner Woge Lieblich lächelnd dir winkt! Erkennt dein Herz sie? Rascher fliegen die Rosse, Tethys, die göttliche, winkt. Schnell vom Wagen herab in ihre Arme Springt der Führer, den Zaum ergreift Kupido, Stille halten die Rosse, Trinken die kühlende Flut. An dem Himmel herauf mit leisen Schritten Kommt die duftende Nacht; ihr folgt die süße Liebe. Ruhet und liebet, Phöbus, der liebende, ruht. ……………………………………………………………… : : : : : : : : : : : :: ………………………………………* Evening : : By Friedrich Von Schiller : : : : : : Oh! thou bright-beaming god, the plains are thirsting, Thirsting for freshening dew, and man is pining; Wearily move on thy horses— Let, then, thy chariot descend!
Seest thou her who, from ocean’s crystal billows, Lovingly nods and smiles?—Thy heart must know her! Joyously speed on thy horses,— Tethys, the goddess, ’tis nods!
Swiftly from out his flaming chariot leaping, Into her arms he springs,—the reins takes Cupid,— Quietly stand the horses, Drinking the cooling flood.
Now from the heavens with gentle step descending, Balmy night appears, by sweet love followed; Mortals, rest ye, and love ye,— Phoebus, the loving one, rests! — Friedrich Von Schiller : : : : From allpoetry.com For Educational Purposes only.
“Evening”, A 16 lines 4 Quatrains Poem By FriedrichVon Schiller known for his plays and philosophical writings in German, is About The Speaker’s plea to Apollo that he allow the sun to set and rest, and love to descend. The 3 Rd line of the first 3 stanzas ends with the word “horses.” which link from the beginning to, almost, the end of the poem. : : The speaker asks that Apollo come down from his paramount spot in the sky and take away the brightness of the day. He, and the rest of humankind, desire the “freshening dew” and a respite by postponing the light and heat temporarily . The 2 Nd Stanza becharm bright beaming God , Apollo come down towards the ocean. If he cannot see “Tethys” who is waiting by the water. Entranced by these Words Apollo descends and enters into Tethys’ embrace. . The Last lines describe the significance of “evening” and the “balmy night.” It is for lovers, humans and divine, to meet and rest. : : : :
Stanza 1 : : ” Oh! thou bright-beaming god, the plains are thirsting, 1 Thirsting for freshening dew, and man is pining; 2 Wearily move on thy horses— 3 Let, then, thy chariot descend!” 4 : : lines 1 To 4 : : : :
About pleading bright beaming Greek God of light and healing, Apollo , in control of the plains , of rise and setting of The Sun , is called “Phoebus”( line 16 in Stanza 4 ), the god of the sun. As man is pining ( longing for Him ) ( line 2 ) and walking around tiredly to get rid of the severe heat in the background of “thirsty plains” ( line 1 ) and for “freshening dew”( line 2 ) : So, Appollo is prayed for “descend(ing) from His chariot” in the high sky. : : : :
Stanza 2 : : ” Seest thou her who, from ocean’s crystal billows, 5 Lovingly nods and smiles?—Thy heart must know her! 6 Joyously speed on thy horses,—7 Tethys, the goddess, ’tis nods!”8 : : lines 5 To 8 : : : :
About “Tethys” , ( referred in line 8 ) who is A “Titaness”daughter of Uranus and Gaia : “The Godess of Seas”/ ( that is all sources of water ) who could provide fresh water 🌊💦 for The lives on the earth , might be mentally perceived by sight of God Apollo , ” from Ocean’s crystal billows,( line 5 ) / that is , from a surge in ‘sea waves.’ : All seas fall in the travelling pathway in Apollo’s everyday’s trip as , He too , has been charmed through ” Lovingly nods and smiles ( with His salutations to Her ) because Goddess Tethys has a possessing Power to attract and entice. Hence , God Apollo can ” joyously speed on His horses,” — ( line 7 ) For , His ” heart must know Her. ( line 6 ) : : Tethys , the God is “nodding” ( line 8 )/ bringing Her head down to assenting with ‘YES‘ to Him as if , She wants him to travel in the direction of the horizon and to the sea. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Stanza 3 ” Swiftly from out his flaming chariot leaping, 9 Into her arms he springs,—the reins takes Cupid,— 10 Quietly stand the horses, 11 Drinking the cooling flood.”12 : : lines 9 To 12 : : : :
About Appollo’s gladness in positively clearing the Pleadings of the Poet Speaker which can be noticed from the “springing” ( line 10 ) “Swiftly from” his “flaming chariot.” ( line 9 ) : The Speaker sees God Apollo rushing out as noticed in , ” leaping out” ( line 9 ) and ” In to her arms he springs ” ( line 10 ) : ” — the reins takes Cupid.”– 10 Means , The Speaker notices that The God Of Love , “Cupid” in Appollo’s support, reins in His horses , takes a stop in their traveling way towards a destination of Tethys : ” “Quietly stand the horses.” ( line 11 ) : Both the Gods , Apollo and Cupid in company of one another , are noticed as , ” Drinking the cooling flood.” (Of Evening) ( line 12 ) and have stopped for Rest gaining a much needed vigour. : : : :
Stanza 4 : : “Now from the heavens with gentle step descending,13 Balmy night appears, by sweet love followed; 14 Mortals, rest ye, and love ye,— 15 Phoebus, the loving one, rests!”16 : : lines 13 To 16 : : : :
About ” descending” with gentle step of the darkness of night from the heavens.”( line 13 ). : And it is noticed as , ” Balmy night 🌃 , that is ‘mild and soft’ night which appears as ‘pleasantly’ without extremes , “by sweet love followed; ” ( line 14 ) in the night hours. : : An ‘Evening gift’ which is “followed by sweet love “( line 14 ) that mankind receives at the end of each day. The vigour and zest/ Enthusiasm in the living beings might be decreased in magnitude and extent for it is an Evening Period. Yet the same Evening must inspire love to beloved persons. The coolness of Evening is a distinguished suggestion to the “Mortals” to “rest ye” ( line 15 ), in saying , ‘YOU rest‘ for a while and then establish the communicative contacts with your loved one, and zestfully receive the pleasure and enjoyment inspite of the fast reaching fearful darkness. : : : :
“Evening” , By Friedrich Von Schiller, A German Poem Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India August 12 , 2023 : : : : ; : : :
In The Evening ( Russian Poem ) : : By Anna Akhmatova : Translation By Late Richard McKane : : : :
In the Evening
There was such inexpressible sorrow in the music in the garden. The dish of oysters on ice smelt fresh and sharp of the sea.
He said to me ‘I am a true friend!’ He touched my dress. There is no passion in the touch of his hands.
This is how one strokes a cat or a bird, this is how one looks at a shapely horsewoman. There is only laughter in his eyes under the light gold of his eyelashes.
The violins’ mourning voices sing above the spreading smoke: ‘Give thanks to heaven: you are alone with your love for the first time.’
“In The Evening”, A Russian Love Poem By Anna Akhmatova : Translated By English Poet and translator, Late Richard McKane is About love deprivation with emphasis on personal experience. : : : :
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David Herbert ( D H ) Lawrence With A Book (11 September 1885 Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England– 2 March 1930 (aged 44) Vence, Alpes -Maritimes, France) Genre Modernism philosophical fiction : became famous writing novels about sex. But his best stories—and his most profound achievements—reside elsewhere. : Lawrence was an English writer, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Several of his novels, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley ‘s Lover, were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of sexuality and use of explicit language. His famous Short stories: “Odour of Chrysanthemums” “The Rocking-Horse Winner”: Lawrence resided at Ranch, Taos, New Mexico, U.S. Lawrence’s opinions and artistic preferences earned him a controversial reputation; he endured contemporary persecution and public misrepresentation of his creative work throughout his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile that he described as a “savage enough pilgrimage”. At the time of his death, he had been variously scorned as tasteless, avant-garde, and a pornographer who had only garnered success for erotica; however, English novelist and critic E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as “the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation”. Later, English literary critic F. R. Leavis also championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness.Conwy River At Sunset landscape dawn in Tuscany with wonderful purplish red Sky with last sunshine of yellow colour like lamplight.Grey Evening
Grey Evening : : By D H Lawrence ; : : : When you went, how was it you carried with you My missal book of fine, flamboyant Hours? My book of turrets and of red-thorn bowers, And skies of gold, and ladies in bright tissue?
Now underneath a blue-grey twilight, heaped Beyond the withering snow of the shorn fields Stands rubble of stunted houses; all is reaped And trodden that the happy summer yields.
Now lamps like yellow echoes glimmer among The shadowy stubble of the under-dusk; As farther off the scythe of night is swung Ripe little stars come rolling from their husk.
And all the earth is gone into a dust Of greyness mingled with a fume of gold, Timeless as branching lichens, pale as must, Since all the sky has withered and gone cold.
And so I sit and scan the book of grey, Feeling the shadows like a blind man reading, All fearful lest I find the last words bleeding: Nay, take this weary Book of Hours away.
“Grey Evening” First appeared in the 1916 collection, Amores By David Herbert ( D H ) Lawrence is About Pictorial “blue-grey twilight”of An Automnal “Evening” in fancy and showy “flamboyant Hours” , the “earth under gleaming shadowy dusk”of “lamp like yellow” colour as well as the natural melancholy in the nighttime of departure of love : : : :
Stanza 1 : : “When you went, how was it you carried with you 1 My missal book of fine, flamboyant Hours? 2 My book of turrets and of red-thorn bowers, 3 And skies of gold, and ladies in bright tissue?” 4 : : lines 1 To 4 : : : :
About A Christian Man or Woman attending a Mass Of Roman Catholic Church who celebrates with the gathering of devotee’s responsive reading or singing different prayers which are contained in a book 📖 called ” missal book” 📚 : A gothic old fashioned reflection of the Middle Ages referred here ( in lines 1 & 2 ) as ” missal book of ( “fine , flamboyant” , that is ‘showy’ ) Hours” ( line 2 ) which draws a picture of “turrets” , “red -thorn bowers” and “ladies in bright tissue ” and skies of gold” 🪙 ( lines 3 & 4 ) : The “turrets” are small 🗼 towers extending above a building ( of a Church ? ) whereas ” bowers ” are pergola of the arbour – like Trees , here “redthorn” trees that provide a shady ‘resting place’. These pictorial images represent a Christian man’s or woman’s incomprehensible allusions and a puzzling 🤔 terseness depicted by the Speaker in this exoteric expression of a common man of public in a modernist poem. That is why the speaker asks a Christian devotee or worshippers , ” how was it when you carried my “missal book of Hours” with you when you went to a mass /prayers ( understood by enlightened inner circle only ) of the Church ! ? ( lines 1 & 2 ) : : The howdy , here is cryptic. However, the “book of Hours” signify the fine showy hours of Church – Going ‘Day’ of a fine “flamboyant” season in late Autumn time. 🍂 🍁 ( line 8 ) : : : :
Stanza 2 : : ” Now underneath a blue-grey twilight, heaped 5 Beyond the withering snow of the shorn fields 6 Stands rubble of stunted houses; all is reaped 7 And trodden that the happy summer yields.” 8 : : lines 5 To 8 : : : :
About a rural ‘ Countryside’ Evening appearing in as a “blue – grey twilight” heaped of the “shorn fields” ( lines 5 & 6 ) , Meaning, the crops in the “fields” have been already “shorn” or reaped, as if cut ( or ‘clipped off’ like , in the hair curls of the babies , or in the wool of the sheeps. ) , and large quantities have been arranged in the “heaps”or in stacks. : : “all is reaped” ( line 7 ) : all natural products of crops have been ‘harvested’and ‘gathered’ :: “stands rubble of stunted houses; ( line 7 ) Meaning, the rubble ( the remains ) of houses are still standing ( holding firm upright ) as if destroyed , or say they are like in a condition ‘in need of repairs’. And this repairing condition indicates a marking that something has happened which has made to seem belittled of their worth. : : The “weathering snow” of the fields ( line 6 ) indicates the snowy Day of the event of snow ❄️ falling 🌨️ or influence of the weather in late Autumn time that must have impaired in vigour. : : : :
Stanza 3 : : ” Now lamps like yellow echoes glimmer among 9 The shadowy stubble of the under-dusk; 10 As farther off the scythe of night is swung 11 Ripe little stars come rolling from their husk.” 12 : : lines 9 To 12 : : : :
About an Urban Scene where ” lamps likeyellow echoes glimmer” ( line 9 ) which shines brightly among twilight. In “The shadowystubble of the under – dusk ; ” ( line 10 ) , The Poet Speaker draws a colourful picture of the ‘brighter Sunshine’, here in its last gleam of the yellow colourlights resembling the lamp light. Husks are The plants materials ( pieces of coverings , stems and small leaves separated from the grain- seeds ) not gathered and remained in the “shorn fields” which have been in – mixed and are echoic or mirrored in 🌇 gloaming of the nightfall that appears soon as The “shadowy stubble of the under – dusk.” ( line 10 ) : : ” the scythe of night 🌃 is swung” ( line 11 ) : Meaning , the green grass of the grain plants cut with the scythe( sidh ) , actually an edge tool with a curved blade and long handles for both hands , but the Poet Speaker calls it “scytheof night” which is “swung”that is, the night has moved in a curve or arc , parallel to the field(s) to spread the thickness of shadow on the earth through its shears. : : The outcome is thankfully and hopefully brilliant ; As “Ripe little ⭐✨ stars come rolling from their husk.” ( line 12 ) : The word , “rolling” narrates the grains , fruits , etc. Produced and harvested in the fields are very much like Stars ( emitting shining light ) seemingly rolled down from their husks similar to the shadows of the darkness of the sky spread across the landscape at the end of the day. : : “Ripe(ness)” suggests the ‘ready to eat’ state of the grains. ; as well as ripe time suitable for some changes in the life at social and personal levels of the changing mindsets with man’s advanced growth and expected development in the changing seasons ahead. : That is how an onset of ( late ) “Automnal Night” happens from its earlier “Grey Evening” time of the Day which has been metaphorically endured in a way– artfully cut and engraved in to a precious gem of poem. : : : :
Stanza 4 : : ” And all the earth is gone into a dust 13 Of greyness mingled with a fume of gold, 14 Timeless as branching lichens, pale as must, 15 Since all the sky has withered and gone cold.” 16 : : lines 13 To 16 : : : :
White moss lichen close-up, Rondvassbu National Park, Norway, Europe
About “earth gone in to a dust” ( line 13 ) that is broken or fallen apart in to the dusty fragments “Of greyness mingled”, that is mixed up to combine together ” with a fumes of gold.” ( line 14 ) : : “timeless as branching lichens” ( nice simile ), “pale as must”( line 15 ) : branching “litchens ” are thallophytic plants with crusty patches or bushy growths found on tree trunks or rocks or ground. The Poet Speaker compares their paleness with “must” named to a grape juice before or during fermentation processed in winery. The colour occuring alongside the grey Evening is thus inmixed also with purplish red colour essentially of the alcoholic Wine 🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷 “All the sky has withered”, that is , all the freshness , vigour or vitality have been lost and has “gone cold” ( line 16 ) since the grey Evening too has withered and nightfall is being turned out to an Automnal Night with the end of an Day. : : : :
Stanza 5 : : ” And so I sit and scan the book of grey, 17 Feeling the shadows like a blind man reading, 18 All fearful lest I find the last words bleeding: 19 Nay, take this weary Book of Hours away.” 20 : : lines 17 To 20 : : : :
About seeing what would happen to a blind man, reading “the book of grey” with his fingers, fearing he may find “the last words bleeding” and about the same shadowy feeling and fearfulness of the Poet Speaker as he says ,” I sit and scan the book of grey” lines 17 to 19 📖 : : The reset of the scene of Jesus Christ’s last moments in His bleeding — of the redness which has to be inmixed with the 🌧️ Rain that has to occur at the Nightlong Hours of His taking all pains from the lives on Earth . : The thrust of This “life in death” and The aforesaid feeling and fearfulness , together with the finding of the “last words of bleeding” by the Poet Speaker brings for himself , A ‘Melancholy‘ of the overwhelmingly bleak , and desolateatmosphere of the Death in the Shadowynightfall and Night of Darkness on “His Departure”: : The poet Speaker himself has plundered this finding of His “last Words” from the ” book of Hours“which he reads with unbearable pain. Hence The last line 20 , “Nay, take this weary Book of Hoursaway.” 20 : :
Carol Rumen writes in Guardian about the last line 20 : “.. . quaintly poetic on account of the “Nay”’, but the word may have other connotations for Lawrence, who had earlier experimented with poems in the Nottinghamshire dialect. It may simply emphasise how plainly and passionately the new, lover-less Book of Hours is rejected. : The Poem ‘ Grey Evening’ will rarely find its way into the popular anthologies. All the same it expresses the force of Lawrence’s personality : it has original organic life. It may partly imitate “a missal book” but it’s alive with “fine, flamboyant Hours” and the raw melancholy of their loss. ” : : : : ( “Quaintly” poetic manner is a strange old fashioned yet not unpleasant manner. ) : : : :
” Grey Evening “, By D H Lawrence Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India August 9 , 2023 : : : : : : : :
Lake sunset in Scotland ( with purplish red wine colour across the landscape in the Evening after sunset ) : From pixabay.com
Anne Sexton ( 1928 – 1974 ) : American Confessional Poet: ( Photo by Donald Preston/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) From poetryfoundation.org : : born in Newton, Massachusetts and raised in Weston, Massachusetts. One of the most popular poets of mid-20th century America. According to Diane Hume George, “Anne Sexton’s poetry tells stories that are immensely significant to mid-twentieth-century artistic and psychic life. Sexton understood her culture’s malaise through her own, and her skill enabled her to deploy metaphorical structures at once synthetic and analytic … Sexton explored the myths by and through which our culture lives and dies: the archetypal relationships among mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, gods and humans, men and women. She perceived, and consistently patterned in the images of her art, the paradoxes deeply rooted in human behavior and motivation. Her poetry presents multiplicity and simplicity, duality and unity, the sacred and the profane, in ways that insist on their similarities—even, at times, their identity. In less abstract terms, Sexton made explicit the intimacy of forces persistently treated as opposites by the society she lived in.” : : Anne Sexton was contemporary of Sylvia Plath; she also, like Plath, took her own life. But Anne wrote Poetry different to Sylvia’s. The daughter of a successful businessman, Sexton’s childhood was materially comfortable but not happy. At age 19, she married Alfred “Kayo” Sexton II. While Kayo was serving in Korea, Anne became a fashion model. In 1953. : : After the birth of her first daughter she suffered her first breakdown and was admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital. Sexton struggled with depression for the remainder of her life. She committed suicide at age 46. : : in 1957 Sexton joined writing groups in Boston that eventually led her to friendships and relationships with the poets Maxine Kumin, Robert Lowell, George Starbuck, and Sylvia Plath.Sexton’s poems about her psychiatric struggles were gathered in her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960), which recounts, as James Dickey wrote, the experiences “of madness and near-madness, of the pathetic, well-meaning, necessarily tentative and perilous attempts at cure, and of the patient’s slow coming back into the human associations and responsibilities which the old, previous self still demands.” : Sexton’s work is usually grouped with other Confessional poets such as Plath, Lowell, John Berryman, and W. D. Snodgrass. Anne’s Other Books included All my Pretty Ones (1962), Live or Die (1966), which won the Pulitzer Prize, Love Poems (1969), the play Mercy Street (1969). Transformations (1972), a series of retellings of Grimm’s fairy tales is often described as her least overtly “confessional” and most feminist work. Sexton’s last published collection was The Death Notebooks (1974); posthumously published volumes included The Awful Rowing toward God (1975), 45 Mercy Street (1976), and Words for Dr. Y: Uncollected Poems with Three Stories (1978). Sexton’s work was enormously popular during her lifetime and she was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Frost Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, the Levinson Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters traveling fellowship, the Shelley Memorial Prize. : : Erica Jong, reviewing The Death Notebooks assessed , : : Sexton’s poetic significance ,”She is an important poet not only because of her courage in dealing with previously forbidden subjects, but because she can make the language sing.” : She wrote in free verse during the middle and late phases of her poetic career. Most important is her gift for unique imagery, often centering on the body or the household. Her work reflects her very personal Style and her struggle to maintain a positive outlook and connect with others around her. : Many Poets write poems which any number of people might have written. When Anne Sexton is at the top of her form, she writes a poem which no one else could have written.Evening Colours Of Horizon : photograph : fineartamerica.com
The Fury Of Sunsets : : By Anne Sexton ( 1928 – 1974 ) , Newton, Massachusetts : : : : : : : :
Something cold is in the air, an aura of ice and phlegm. 1 All day I’ve built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it. 2 The horizon bleeds and sucks its thumb. 3 The little red thumb goes out of sight. 4 And I wonder about this lifetime with myself, this dream I’m living. 5 I could eat the sky like an apple but I’d rather ask the first star: why am I here? why do I live in this house? who’s responsible? eh? 6
— Anne Sexton
“The Fury Of Sunsets”, 6 Stanzas ‘Evening Poem’ By an American Confessional Poet Anne Sexton is About persisting musing on the unavoidable death, the impermanence of life and dying , the momentary Natural World. Anne Sexton ( contemporary of Sylvia Plath; she also, like Plath, took her own life. However her personal Style of poetry was different from Sylvia.) has employed fantastic surreal imageries which beat through cleverness and wit.
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A City Sunset : : By T E Hulme Alluring, Earth seducing, with high conceits1 is the sunset that reigns 2 at the end of westward streets. …3 A sudden flaring sky4 troubling strangely the passer by5 with visions, alien to long streets, of 6 Cytharea 7 or the smooth flesh of Lady Castlemaine. … 8 A frolic of crimson 9 is the spreading glory of the sky, 10 heaven’s jocund maid 11 flaunting a trailed red robe 12 along the fretted city roofs 13 about the time of homeward going crowds14 — a vain maid, lingering, loth to go … 15
“A City Sunset”An illustrative Modern Poem following the French Vers libre ( Or Free Verse ) model , By T E Hulme is About Red / Crimson Sunset comparable to the naked “smooth flesh” of “Lady Castlemaine”, mistress of King Charles II as well as about An Evening Sunset – as seen by a London-dweller – intuitive yet pictorial , that is colourful but non rational or illogical.
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F 669 : : An Ignorance a Sunset : By Emily Dickinson : : : ;
An ignorance a Sunset 1 Confer upon the Eye 2 Of Territory — Color 3 Circumference — Decay4
Its Amber Revelation 5 Exhilarate — Debase 6 Omnipotence’ inspection 7 Of Our inferior face 8
And when the solemn features 9 Confirm — in Victory 10 We start — as if detected 11 In Immortality. 12
“An Ignorance a Sunset “By Emily Dickinson is About ‘in-mixing of Sun’ with the ‘Divine.’ She diffuses The “inspection by “Omnipotence” , that is the state of being everywhere at once , Or Seeming to be everywhere at 🔂 once which is an overwhelming feeling of veneration and admiration inspiring religiosity. The Sun gains in the status of divine for its “solemn features” like it’s ” Amber Revelation”( line 5 ) that “Exhilarates”, Meaning, it is filled with reverence , glory , and an inspiring awe. The sunset 🌇 debase(s) too ( line 6 ) , Meaning it lowers in quality. The Poet Speaker’s deep thoughts 💬 put together, struggle to find meaning in such contrast to exhilarating & debasing which is a state of uncertaintywith religious doubts. That is why the opening wordings take a start with, ” An ignorance a sunset 🌆 : Its colourful views are watched by Man through his / her “eyes”which maps up the “territory– Color”and “Circumference”( Size at distance “) and “— Decay” ( gradual decrease ) as discussed in lines 2 , 3 & 4 requiring a consulted / expanding knowledge in area of one’s religiosity. : : : : The Poem confronts “In Immortality” in its final Stanza. The sunset “Confirms solemn ( earnest and dignified ) features” — in “Victory”( lines 9 & 10 ) : : The final lines 11 & 12 , ” We start — as if detected 11 In Immortality.” 12 : : Man’s perpetual life after death , that is, being “In immortality” is “detected”, Meaning , first noticed or heard , then sensed and perceived, and finally , determined in the existence , presence or facts of immortality as confirmed by God , although the Poet Speaker has not directly mentioned His Name. : : : :
“An Ignorance a Sunset”, A Evening Poem By Emily Dickinson Information Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India August 6, 2023 : : : : : : : :
Woodburytype of a portrait of Charles Baudelaire ( 1821–1867 ) by Étienne Carjat. Bouquet inspired by Baudelaire’s Poem ,”The Romantic Sunset” : “I have seen all, flower, stream, furrow, Swoon under his gaze like a palpitating heart… — Let us run to the horizon, it’s late, Let us run fast, to catch at least a slanting ray!”“The Sunset Of Romanticism” : : By Charles Baudelaire
The Sunset Of Romanticism : : By Charles Baudelaire , Paris – France ( 1821 – 1867 ) : :
How beautiful a new sun is when it rises, 1 flashing out its greeting, like an explosion! 2 – Happy, whoever hails with sweet emotion 3 its descent, nobler than a dream, to our eyes! 4 I remember! I’ve seen all, flower, furrow, fountain, 5 swoon beneath its look, like a throbbing heart… 6 – Let’s run quickly, it’s late, towards the horizon, 7 to catch at least one slanting ray as it departs! 8 But I pursue the vanishing God in vain: 9 irresistible Night establishes its sway, 10 full of shudders, black, dismal, cold: 11 an odour of the tomb floats in the shadow,12 at the swamp’s edge, feet faltering I go, 13 bruising damp slugs, and unexpected toads.14
— Charles Baudelaire
“The Sunset of Romanticism ” An Evening Poem in 14 lines , By the 19 Th Century French Poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 1867 ) , is About Sunset as “like a throbbing heart” and describing the Evening Scene A Darker Edge. : : Baudelaire gained notoriety for his 1857 volume of poems, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil). His themes of sex, death, lesbianism, metamorphosis, depression, urban corruption, lost innocence and alcohol not only gained him loyal followers, but also garnered controversy. His poems were well rounded in the Symbolist sense. He retains a commitment to the primacy of the aesthetic experience. : : Romanticism is a Literary Movement of late 18 Th & Early 19 Th Centuries ; that is , Started 1780 , Ended 1830 / ( Some believes Until 1850 ) It can be characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy.. Romanticism quickly spread throughout Europe and the United States to challenge the rational ideal held so tightly during the Enlightenment. First is Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who is often considered the father of Romanticism. And the last is Friedrich Nietzsche, who is sometimes considered the greatest Romantic. Romanticist practitioners found their voices across all genres, including literature, music, art, and architecture: : The artists emphasized that sense and emotions – not simply reason and order – were equally important means of understanding and experiencing the world. Romanticism celebrated the individual imagination and intuition in the enduring search for individual rights and liberty. Its ideals of the creative, subjective powers of the artist fueled avant-garde movements well into the 20th century. Reacting against the sober style of Neoclassicism preferred by most countries’ academies, the far reaching international movement valued originality, inspiration, and imagination, thus promoting a variety of styles within the movement. Upon the Increasing industrialization, many of the Romanticists emphasized the individual’s connection to Nature and an Idealized Past. Imagination, emotion, and freedom are certainly the focal points of romanticism. : : Baudelaire ( 1821 – 1867 ) wrote in 1846, “Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling.” : : “The depth of life reveals itself in all its profundity in whatever one is looking at, however ordinary that spectacle might be. That vision becomes the symbol of life’s depth ” ( Baudelaire From his Notebook. )
Painters began using current events and atrocities to shed light on injustices in dramatic compositions that rivaled the more staid Neoclassical history paintings accepted by national academies. preoccupation with the hero and the genius translated to new views of the artist as a brilliant creator who was unburdened by academic dictate and tastes. In many countries, Romantic painters turned their attention to nature and plein air painting, or painting out of doors. Works based on close observation of the landscape as well as the sky and atmosphere elevated landscape painting to a new, more respectful level. While some artists emphasized humans at one with and a part of nature, others portrayed nature’s power and unpredictability, evoking a feeling of the sublime – awe mixed with terror – in the viewer. The American Revolution. Emphasizing local folklore, traditions, and landscapes, Romanticists provided the visual imagery that further spurred national identity and pride. The 5 characteristics of American Romanticism is marked by a focus on individualism, an emphasis on nature, emotion over reason, freedom of form, and an exploration of the Gothic and unknown.Romantic painters combined the ideal with the particular, imbuing their paintings with a call to spiritual renewal that would usher in an age of freedom and liberties not yet seen. ( From artstory.org )
WithAn “odour of the tomb’ is in the air” , ( line 12 ) and we move far away from the ‘beauteous evening’ of William Wordsworth.
Notes for each of the 14 lines Pending visit this post again later on to enjoy the appreciation of the poem V Jayaraj Pune India August 5 , 2023 : : : :
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I know not how it falls on me : : By Emily Brontë : : : :
I know not how it falls on me, 1 This summer evening, hushed and lone; 2 Yet the faint wind comes soothingly 3 With something of an olden tone. 4
Forgive me if I’ve shunned so long 5 Your gentle greeting, earth and air!6 But sorrow withers even the strong, 7 And who can fight against despair? 8
“I know not how it falls on me”, A Short 8 lines ( Evening ) Poem Written in 1831 , By Emily Brontë ( July 30 in 1818 in Thornton, Yorkshire — 1848 , died in T B , Aged 30 Only ) is About a familiarly sorrowful note From the Sun to a Summer’s 🌆 Evening. that falls upon The Poet Speaker who makes peace for her with Nature and the Natural Elements. : : : :
For The Speaker “Summer Evening” although 🥵 warm , has been “hushed” , that is in soft or subdued tone and “lone” Meaning , isolating one. Yet the “faint wind” comes soothingly With something of an olden tone.” ( lines 3 & 4 ) : The olden tone here suggests the old familiar tone of the fervor , that is feeling of warmth and intensity ( not harsh ) in the atmosphere of a place and the effect that it has on the Speaker.
The above experience of the Speaker makes her realise that she has “shunned so long” ( line 5 ) , that is , she has stayed away in her self imposed isolation from the Natural Elements : ” earth and air” ! ( line 6 ) of the Nature which didn’t miss sending her “gentle greetings” ( line 6 ) a tenderly kind and soothing ( faint wind : line 3 ) : : This ‘howdy’ and ‘ watcha’ expect her to do ? Yet she has failed to 🚭 noticethese greetings to which she asks the Nature to grant her forgiveness. Having realised her mistake and for shunning from her side, the remedial power of the Nature she is ready to make peace for her with Nature and Natural Elements. : :
“But sorrow withers even the strong, 7 And who can fight against despair? ” 8
Her mindset is in a state in which all hope is lost. And she believes that no one can fight against despair. Emily Brontë once 🔂 wrote another 8 lines more famous Poem , : : : : : : : : ” Long neglect has worn away Half the sweet enchanting smile; Time has turned the bloom to grey; Mould and damp the face defile.” ( Only First 4 of 8 lines ) : : : :
One can see Emily Bronte ‘s constant Struggle between her Faith in Nature : With Healing Power of Natural Elements And Her Melancholy of remaining in sad Pensive 😔🤔 Moods across her astonishingly Brilliant Novel , ” Wuthering Hights ” and Her Poems including this short Evening Poem. She has passionately searched for harmony between Natural Energy and much needed Calm. In the Poem , “I know not how it falls on me” she profoundly presents her familiarly sorrowful ( olden ) Notes and Tones From the Sun to a Summer’s 🌆 Evening and reveals that she really doesn’t know how the Summertime Sun up to its Evening time falls on her from its harshness to softening tenderness.: : Sorrow(fulness) weathers even the strong. She couldn’t fully overcome from Her loneliness and self imposed isolation and live more to feel the healing Power of Nature and Natural Elements and their Beauty. : : : :
“I know not how it falls on me” By Emily Brontë , One Of The Best Evening Poem , Information ℹ️ Appreciation and poem Analysis Presented by V Jayaraj Pune India August 4 , 2023 : : : : : : : :
MADHU MALTI 