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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A FRIEND, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who prop, thou ask'st, in these bad days, my mind? Last Line: Singer of sweet colonus, and its child. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Iliad; Odyssey | |||
WHO prop, thou ask'st, in these bad days, my mind? He much, the old man, who, clearest-soul'd of men, Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen, And Tmolus' hill, and Smyrna's bay, though blind. Much he, whose friendship I not long since won, That halting slave, who in Nicopolis Taught Arrian, when Vespasian's brutal son Clear'd Rome of what most sham'd him. But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanc'd soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor Passion wild: Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole: The mellow glory of the Attic stage; Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child. | 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 THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER [DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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