 | John Meyer - 1976 - 233 pàgines
...space, and athletes are at their games; on the new shield of the 1970's there is a weed choked field: A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy; a bird flew up to a safety from his well-aimed stone; That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third; were axioms... | |
 | Anastasia M. Shkilnyk - 1985 - 295 pàgines
...anonymous at their request, and pseudonyms are used throughout. PART I GRASSY NARROWS: COMMUNITY IN RUINS A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about...another wept. —WH Auden, “The Shield of Achilles” At the end of Sheba's Hill, named after the old woman whose house crests the steep climb, past the... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground. (1. 34-37) 62 cared for Kate; For she had a tongue with a tang. Would cry t lo him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept, Or one could weep because another... | |
 | Harvey Seymour Gross, Robert McDowell - 1996 - 362 pàgines
...weed-choked field. The Utopian reality follows in iambic pentameter, arranged in the rime-royal stanza: A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about...were kept Or one could weep because another wept. The contrast between Arcadian grace and utopian misery is admirably served by the alternation of the... | |
 | Lotte Motz - 1997 - 289 pàgines
...shining metal Where the altar should have been She saw by the shining forge-light Quite another scene. A ragged urchin, aimless and alone Loitered about...heard Of any world where promises were kept Or one would weep because another wept. The thin-lipped armorer Hephaistos, hobbled away Thetis of the shining... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 380 pàgines
...anticipates a comment by Iris Murdoch quoted in Chapter 3; and also Charles Taylor, later in this chapter.) That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,...him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises are kept, Or one could weep because another wept. WH Auden, 'The Shield of Achilles'. (On compassion... | |
 | A. B. Bosworth - 1996 - 237 pàgines
...music, But there on the shining shield His hands had set no dancing-floor But a weed-choked field. A ragged urchin, aimless and alone. Loitered about...were kept, Or one could weep because another wept. Now is this not an absurd comparison — Alexander the Great and a tearless, loveless urchin? We remember... | |
 | Alan Jacobs - 1998 - 188 pàgines
...what the camera and the crow see, not this vision, accessible only to the eye of moral understanding: A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about...were kept, Or one could weep because another wept. (CP 598) Likewise, though more lightly, "Secondary Epic" chastises Virgil for his narrow singularity... | |
 | Nina Kossman - 2001 - 316 pàgines
...music, But there on the shining shield His hands had set no dancing-floor But a weed-choked field. A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about...were kept. Or one could weep because another wept. The thin-lipped armourer, Hephaestos hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pàgines
...mesmerising.) This stanza from a later poem, 'The Shield of Achilles' (1955), has a characteristic directness: A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about...were kept, Or one could weep because another wept. The same poem illustrates his distrust of the state within which citizens are impersonally manipulated... | |
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A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy, a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept. Or one... 
