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13 de mai. de 2011 · About this poem. "Count That Day Lost" is a poem written by George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans). The poem is a reflection on the nature of success and failure, and encourages the reader to adopt a positive attitude towards life. It consists of two stanzas, each with four lines. The poem begins with the line "If you sit down at set of sun ...
George Eliot was the pen name used by a female author whose real name was Mary Ann Evans. She wrote poetry but was more famous for classical novels that will forever have their place amongst the greats of English literature such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss. She was most prolific during the mid- to late 19 th century, producing ...
4 de mar. de 2024 · STANZA 1. The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke. The narrator immediately sets the oppressive scene of a rapidly industrialising London. The imagery of the city and landscape evokes a sense of hostility – the ‘cloudy’, ‘yellowed’ sky describing the smog created by the heavily polluting factories and vehicles staining the city.
In her brilliant, short philosophical lyric “I Grant You Ample Leave,” Eliot manages to gather together most of the buds of her thought on perception, consciousness, and language, creating in 21 short lines a stunning bouquet of intellect, argument, and hypotheses. While the poem addresses themes found in her long poem “A College ...
George Eliot's 1865 poem "In a London Drawingroom" is a scathing critique of urban life in Victorian London. The speaker describes the city, which had become the largest in the world by the time Eliot wrote the poem, as a filthy, hectic place that robs life of its color, warmth, and joy. London's residents are utterly alienated from nature ...
31 de mar. de 2024 · George Eliot, “The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems (1874 US edition),” George Eliot Archive, accessed March 31, ...
2 de ago. de 2010 · Here is a poem by George Eliot (1819-1880) that is often used as part of a speech. _____ To Be One With Each Other What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labor, to minister to each other in all sorrow,
