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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED], by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows Last Line: Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey | |||
STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EPIC STARS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE CHILDHOOD OF HOMER by MARY KINZIE HOMER'S SEEING-EYE DOG by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THE RETURN OF THE GREEKS by EDWIN MUIR HOMER IN BASIC by KENNETH REXROTH ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER by JOHN KEATS SONNET: TO HOMER by JOHN KEATS A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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