Showing posts with label Rubaiyat 2nd edition quatrain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rubaiyat 2nd edition quatrain. Show all posts
Friday, June 30, 2017

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Editiion, Quatrain CVII

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This is the second of two linked quatrains, the previous being Quatrain CVI, with a similar theme. Second Edition:  Quatrain CVII Bette...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain CVI

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This is the first of several linked quatrains which express the same theme: the pain of human existence. Second Edition:  Quatrain CVI ...
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Friday, June 2, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain CV

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Second Edition:  Quatrain CV Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield One glimpse --if dimly, yet indeed reveal'd,      Toward ...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain XCIX

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Quatrain XCIX links back to the previous quatrain, especially the last two lines of that Quatrain:  And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,...
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Saturday, April 8, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain XC

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This quatrain is linked to the previous quatrain  in which the narrator eavesdrops on the Potter's creations as they comment in the Pott...
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXXVI

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A confusing quatrain:  the syntax is not clear to me. SECOND EDITION:  QUATRAIN LXXXVI Nay, but for the terror of his wrathful Face, I...
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXXV

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This quatrain is linked to the previous quatrain in which the  Poet/Narrator points out that the Creator has put before us certain pleasures...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXXIV

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Would God punish us for tasting certain of the pleasures that He created?  Second Edition:  Quatrain LXXXIV What!  out of senseless Not...
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Sunday, December 4, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXX

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Quatrain  LXXX is linked closely to the previous quatrain, LXXIX. Second Edition:  Quatrain LXXIX With Earth's first Clay They did t...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXVII

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Quatrain LXXVII of the Second Edition refers back to the previous quatrain in the Second Edition: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXVI The Mov...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXII

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This quatrain continues the theme of the nature of the afterlife, or at least the Poet's thoughts on what it is.  The theme, therefore, ...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXXI

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And yet another quatrain that FitzGerald introduced in the Second Edition. Second Edition: Quatrain LXXI I sent my Soul through the In...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXX

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This quatrain responds to the previous quatrain in which the human body was referred to as a "Clay suburb." Second Edition:  Q...
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Sunday, July 31, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXIX

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The following is another quatrain FitzGerald added to the Second Edition. Second Edition:  Quatrain LXIX Why, if the Soul can fling the...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXVIII

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This is another of the quatrains that Edward FitzGerald added to the Second Edition of his version of the Rubaiyat.  It's a familiar the...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Second Edition, Quatrain LXVII

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This is another of the quatrains Edward FitzGerald added to the Second Edition. SECOND EDITION:  QUATRAIN LXVII Strange, is it not?  th...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Editiion, Quatrain LXVI

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This post actually includes an error on my part.  When I went through the First Edition and included those quatrains from the Second Edition...
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Tuesday, May 3, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXV

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This quatrain was added in the Second Edition but had been removed by the time the Fifth Edition was published.  Frankly, I'm puzzled by...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The Rubaiyat: Second Edition, Quatrain LXIV

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Another in a series of posts regarding quatrains that Edward FitzGerald added when he published the Second Edition of The Rubaiyat. Secon...
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Saturday, March 12, 2016

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Second Edition, Quatrain LXIII

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The following is another of the quatrains Edward FitzGerald introduced into his Second Edition of the Rubaiyat and remained through all subs...
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