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Originally Posted by susie123
If we're going for poetry, Ozymandias by Shelley:
I met a traveller from an antique land
The imagery in the poem, of ancient statues in the desert, has stayed with me rather like the image conjured up by the opening of Metamorphosis.
I also go for Byron's The Eve of Waterloo, part of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage but also published separately:
There was a sound of revelry by night...
describing a ball followed by hasty preparations for the battle the following day, which of course ends in slaughter.
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Love Ozymandias ... has a great last line too ... but if we start getting into that
Also "Sailing to Byzantium" ... "That is no country for old men." ... even tho' he got it from a movie title.
And that's another can of literary worms ... movie and book titles filched from lit. "Gone With the Wind" ... "Splendor in the Grass" ... "Look Homeward Angel" ... "Soup to Nuts" (had to get the Stooges in somewhere; what's a thread without a click?
" Arrrgh ... enough.
And now that I'm on a roll: Susie, go for the tomes ... and when you finish one you can use it to stand on so that you can reach stuff on your kitchen shelves
