English poetry (II)

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(1) Wild Night – Wild nights.

Note:
(a) Emily Dickinson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson
(1830 – 1886 (born and died in Amherst, Massachusetts); never married, Dickinson lived much of her life in reclusive isolation; almost all her work was published posthumously)
(b) The storm may be outside or inside the house. For the latter, see Eshita Dey, Summary and Analysis of Wild Nights By Emily Dickinson. Beaming Note, last updated on July 6, 2017
https://beamingnotes.com/2017/07/06/wild-nights/
(" 'luxury' - sexual gratification[;] '…the Compass …the Chart'- the plan made[;] 'heart in port'- lover's embrace[;] 'Rowing in Eden'- the height of pleasure")

The poem is reproduced in the bottom of the Web page.

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(2) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org ... -on-a-snowy-evening

Note:
(a) Robert Frost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frost
(1874 (San Francisco) - 1953 (Boston); Known for his realistic depictions of rural life; section 1 Biography: section 1.2 Adult years: married Elinor, dropped out of Harvard and Worked in a farm, section 1.3 Personal life)
(b)
(i) Judith Oster, Toward Robert Frost; The reader and the poet. University of Heorgia Press, 1991, at page 290
https://books.google.com/books?i ... =stopping+by+woods+"loaded+with+ulteriority"+frost&source=bl&ots=QlhvQprWfv&sig=N1pbw6VZ69OhKhbkq4CItSKu6ls&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIlbHcm5veAhWIooMKHVllBWEQ6AEwAnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=stopping%20by%20woods%20"loaded%20with%20ulteriority"%20frost&f=false
("On the question of its being a suicide poem: 'I never intended that, but I did have the feeling it was loaded with ulteriority' (I 188)" )
(ii) The word ulteriority does not appear in online dictionaries.

Adam Plunkett, Robert Frost Was Neither Light Nor Dark. New Republic, June 13, 2014
https://newrepublic.com/article/ ... iewed-adam-plunkett
(book review on Tim Kendall, The Art of Robert Frost. Yale University Press, 2013; "Frost defined ulteriority as 'saying one thing and meaning another, saying one thing in terms of another' ")
(c)
(i) One commentator says the rhyme of first stanza is aaba, of second bbcb and so on -- except the last stanza whose last two lines are identical.
(ii) rhyme scheme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme_scheme
(section 2 Notation and examples: • Rubaiyat: AABA)
(B) rubaʽi (n; plural rubaiyat; etymology)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubaiyat

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(3) Beatles' 1966 song Eleanor Rigby.

Note:
(a) Eleanor Rigby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Rigby
(b) About one particular line.
(i) "The lyrics, 'Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door' are a reference to the cold-cream she wears in an effort to look younger." anonymous in the Web.
(ii) Hunter Davis, The Birth of Eleanor Rigby. Newsweek, May 25, 2015
https://www.newsweek.com/birth-eleanor-rigby-334985
(Excerpted from the book THE BEATLES LYRICS by Hunter Davies. * * * Novelist AS Byatt, in a BBC talk aired in 1993, remarked on the phrase 'wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door.' If it had been kept by a mirror, we would immediately have thought of make-up (women often refer to putting on their face before going out), but there is no mirror mentioned, so the image becomes broader, more metaphorical.  Staring out of the window, wearing a face, she is a nobody, nobody sees her, nobody knows her. She is one of the true lonely people. When she does venture out into the world, she hides behind the face she wears [ie, apersona], preserving her anonymity")
(c) Nobel Prize for Literature for 2017 was presented to Bob Dylan, in recognition that for millennia poems were sung.