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<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n The Tyger<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Tyger, Tyger, burning bright In what distant deeps or skies And what shoulder, & what art, <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Sick Rose<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>O Rose, thou art sick. Auguries of Innocence<\/strong><\/p>\n To see a World in a Grain of Sand <\/strong><\/p>\n Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0From The Merchant of Venice: Act IV<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Turning and turning in the widening gyre Surely some revelation is at hand; <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n I have found 2 images that seem to portray the vision of modern man by contrast with “the First Coming”<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Which one do you prefer?<\/strong><\/p>\n Do we need a return to the past or a new way of seeing and behaving? <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In what furnace was thy brain? When the stars threw down their spears <\/strong><\/p>\n Tyger, Tyger, burning bright [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.anneskyvington.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Tiger-2.jpg” admin_label=”Image” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.anneskyvington.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/sick-rose-4-1.jpg” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
WILLIAM BLAKE<\/h2>\n
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?<\/p>\n
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What the hammer? What the chain?<\/p>\n
The invisible worm.
That flies in the night
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy;
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.<\/p>\n
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE<\/h2>\n
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Sonnet 91: About Love and its Power
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Some in their wealth, some in their body’s force,<\/span>
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill,<\/span>
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;<\/span>
And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure<\/span>
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest,<\/span>
But these particulars are not my measure: <\/span>All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments’ cost,
Of more delight than hawks or horses be:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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Scene I<\/strong>: Portia to Shylock<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
The <\/span><\/span><\/em>quality of mercy is not strained;<\/span><\/span>
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven<\/span><\/span>
Upon the earth beneath. It is twice blest;<\/span><\/span>
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:<\/span><\/span>
Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes<\/span><\/span>
The throned monarch better than his crown:<\/span><\/span>
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,<\/span><\/span>
The attribute to awe and majesty,<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nwherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;<\/span><\/span>
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;<\/span><\/span>
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,<\/span><\/span>
It is an attribute to God himself;<\/span><\/span>
And earthly power doth then show likest God<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n
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JOHN KEATS:<\/h4>\n
Ode On A Grecian UrN<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
<\/strong>Th<\/span>ou still unravished bride of quietness,<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span>
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,<\/span><\/em><\/span>
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express<\/span><\/em><\/span>
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:<\/span><\/em><\/span>
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape<\/span><\/em><\/span>
Of deities or mortals, or of both,<\/span><\/em><\/span>
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?<\/span><\/em><\/span>
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?<\/span><\/em><\/span>
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?<\/span><\/em><\/span>
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\nBeauty is truth; truth beauty<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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WB. Yeats:\u00a0 <\/strong>Ireland<\/h2>\n
The Second Coming<\/h3>\n
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.<\/p>\n
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<\/p>\nIs there an echo of the above poem in today’s troubled world?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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What the anvil?
What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?<\/p>\n
And water\u2019d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?<\/p>\n
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n