Example sentences of "[unc] poem the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Eliot 's poem the status of God as objet d'art is stressed ( ‘ And there above the painter set / The Father and the Paraclete ’ ) so that for all that we may penetrate beyond that either to gesso ground or vestiges of primitive fertility ceremony , the ultimate point of origin , the postulated God , is to be explained simply in terms of sexuality , or else remains unreachable and inexplicable . |
| 2 | But in Eliot 's poem the response to these commands is uncertain and generally one of failure . |
| 3 | ’ In Leapor 's poem the observing persona draws close to the nymphs and swains , even recording the effects of the cold on their fingers . |
| 4 | Micawber is quoting the opening line of Oliver Goldsmith 's poem The Traveller ( 1764 ) . |
| 5 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 6 | The picturesque taste certainly had its satirists : William Combe 's poem The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque ( 1809 ) is one example . |
| 7 | ( a ) Aldeburgh Birthplace of the 18th-century poet George Crabbe and the home of Benjamin Britten , whose opera Peter Grimes , set on this coast , was based on a character in Crabbe 's poem The Borough . |
| 8 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |
| 9 | ITALIAN political life has recently resembled nothing so much as a scene from Goethe 's poem The Sorcerer 's Apprentice . |