 | Carol T. Olson - 1993 - 232 pagina’s
...Victoria to offer Tennyson the laureateship. To Speak About Grief Language fails to express grief. I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the...Nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. The "sorrow of language" writes Merleau-Ponty, is that words cannot express all we want to say. How... | |
 | Longxi Zhang - 1992 - 276 pagina’s
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 | Harris B. Shumacker - 1992 - 508 pagina’s
...feelings and thoughts, and far more difficult to convey those of others. Tennyson was right when he wrote: For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. I am writing in a rather informal but hopefully objective manner. Many of those who have played an... | |
 | Marilyn Kallet - 1993 - 276 pagina’s
...the rocks as they do Who know how to ride this tumult safely And play its perils like a game. (22) But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured...mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. (5.5-8) Sarton's poem is no "mechanic exercise." She quickly abandons the meter and rhyme of "A Farewell"... | |
 | Edwin A. Cranston - 1993 - 1332 pagina’s
...reiteration, the animating principle of such poems as the Rubaiyat and Tennyson's In Memoriam, where we find "A use in measured language lies; / The sad mechanic exercise, / Like dull narcotics, numbing pain." The poems are in fairly uncomplicated language, except for no. 507, which situates its "mountain" in... | |
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SOMETIMES hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. 
