Silent Poetry – Deafness, Sign & Visual Culture In Modern France: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France (Princeton Legacy Library, 5245)

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Most of the poem is occupied with the speech of Nature—too complex and protracted to delve into here—but concludes on notes of quiescence, melancholy, and absence:

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Marcuse, Harold; Niemöller, Martin. "Of Guilt and Hope". University of California at Santa Barbara. One of poetry’s hallmarks is that it uses language economically. While a piece of fiction might describe a character in a paragraph or two, a poem might do so in a line. Observe in Simonides his choice of words and his care in combining them; in addition—and here he is found to be better even than Pindar—observe how he expresses pity not by using the grand style but by appealing to the emotions. [68]Ut pictura poesis is a Latin phrase literally meaning "as is painting so is poetry". The statement (often repeated) occurs most famously in Horace's Ars Poetica, near the end, immediately after another famous quotation, " bonus dormitat Homerus", or " even Homer nods" (an indication that even the most skilled poet can compose inferior verse): If we could take such a lesson more seriously, we might today occupy a better world than we do. But Wordsworth is wise enough (after his early revolutionary years) to know that real revolution is impossible: humanity is, for the most part, much as it is, as it has always been, as (most likely) it shall always be. Poltera, Orlando. Simonides lyricus: Testimonia und Fragmente. Einleitung, kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Basel 2008. The knight is later named as Sir Walter (probably not Sir Walter Scott, of whom Wordsworth was a friend). In this stanza already one begins to see the obsessions and recurring themes in Wordsworth’s work: in ‘Daffodils’ (entry 8) he ‘wandered lonely as a cloud’; here the knight rides ‘With the slow motion of a summer’s cloud’. The idea of the chivalric tale briefly appeared in the first ‘Lucy’ poem (entry 7), and here appears again in full swing. But Wordsworth is careful not to allow a bustling tale of adventure to overtake the more earnest communication of his writing. We see this in ‘the slow motion of a summer’s cloud’, and then again more forcefully in stanza 3:

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In 1936, however, he decidedly opposed the Nazis' " Aryan Paragraph". Niemöller signed the petition of a group of Protestant churchmen which sharply criticized Nazi policies and declared the Aryan Paragraph incompatible with the Christian virtue of charity. The Nazi regime reacted with mass arrests and charges against almost 800 pastors and ecclesiastical lawyers. [8] My discipline is the take-no-prisoners language of good poetry, but a language that actually frees us from prejudice, no matter what religion or political persuasion they are. I try to create a river-like discourse. The river is not political, it’s not on your side or against you. It’s an invitation into the onward flow.” —David WhytePoltera, Orlando. 2008. Simonides lyricus: Testimonia und Fragmenta. Basel. The remains of his lyric poetry, with a commentary in German. I praise and love all men who do no sin willingly; but with necessity even the gods do not contend. Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..." ". Holocaust Encyclopedia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . Retrieved 25 July 2018. This celebrated sonnet by the Bard uses autumnal imagery to reflect the coming of old age – although Shakespeare was probably only in his early thirties (if that) when he wrote the poem. A great example of the pathetic fallacy. (The reference to ‘bare ruined choirs’ in this poem was interpreted by William Empson as a reference to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.) See the link above to read the poem in full. Poltera, Orlando. 1997. Le langage de Simonide. Etude sure la tradition poetique et son renouvellement. Bern: Peter Lang.