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PINby Shakespear
am 2025-12-31
- "O, Wonderfull when devil sell the truth" - "The world has become so bad that now little wrens have settled where eagles used to roost. Since every peasant has been made into a nobleman, many noblemen have been dragged down to the level of peasants". 1. Wrens → Small, ordinary, unremarkable birds 2. Roost …
THE ABUSED LOVER SEETH HIS FOLLY, AND INTENDETH TO TRUST NO MORE
PINby Sir Thomas Wyat
am 2025-12-13
AS never file yet half so well yfiled, To file a file for any smith's intent, As I was made a filing instrument, To frame other, while that I was beguiled : But reason, lo, hath at my folly smiled, And pardoned me, sins that I me repent Of my lost years, and of my …
To All the Women I've Loved.
Literatureby Hesham
am 2026-01-01
Mein Schmetterling, du hast mich abgewiesen – keine Umarmung, keine Küsse. Ich kann dich nur in meinen Träumen haben, dort darf ich dein Haar streicheln und deine Lippen küssen. Du hast eine Mauer gebaut und mein Herz verwundet, doch in meinen Träumen gehörst du mir. Mein Schmetterling, vergiss mich nicht. Du bist frei zu fliegen, aber warum hältst du nie bei mir an? Ich wollte immer nur dein Herz, mit dir sprechen, dir von meiner Wunde erzählen. Vielleicht bin ich …
Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Literatureby Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
am 2025-12-20
The Poem's Central Theme: The Pathetic Fallacy Surrey masterfully uses the pathetic fallacy—attributing human emotions to nature. The entire poem contrasts the external world ("Winter is worn that was the flowers' bale") with the speaker's internal, unchanging winter of emotional pain. Nature: Moves from winter to spring; hills "rejoice," birds sing. The Lover: Remains stuck in a state of frozen grief, his "winter" perpetual despite the season's change. The joyous renewal around him only makes his stasis more painful. Full …