work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5727,"",Reading,2003-07-29 00:00:00 UTC,"'Methinks you angry warrior's head
Doth in its casement frown,
And darts a look, as if it said,
""Where hast thou laid my son?""
'But will these fancies never cease?
O would the night were run!
My troubled soul can find no peace
But with the morning sun.
'Vain hope! the guilty never rest:
Dismay is always near;
There is a midnight in the breast
No morn shall ever cheer.
(ll. 17-28 p. 435)",,15265,"•Conrad is about to meet the ghost of Edward. Note that this is all soliloquy or reported thought.
•I will eventually have to admit ""breast"" (and perhaps) ""head"" as two metonymic words to which my entries will be keyed, along with heart and mind.","""There is a midnight in the breast / No morn shall ever cheer.""","",2013-06-05 17:06:27 UTC,""
6002,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""impression"" in HDIS (Poetry); found again ""fancy""",2005-05-17 00:00:00 UTC,"I mark thy muse; her gothic lyre
Well suits the legendary lay;
While darting from her eyes of sire
She beams a visionary day:
Bright as the magic torch she early gave
To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave.",2011-06-05,15958,"","The muse ""beams a visionary day: / Bright as the magic torch she early gave / To light thy ven'trous way, through fancy's secret cave.""",Impressions,2011-06-06 03:31:47 UTC,""
6085,"","Searching ""mind"" and ""chain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",2011-07-14 20:11:56 UTC,"""These tasks befit the rugged sons of toil,""
Cries speculative Pride with scornful smile,
""While they in ignorance and darkness grope,
""And labour on, and talk of faith and hope;
""Far nobler labours aid us to extol
""The task of minds, the labour of the soul.
""To trace French novelists with steady gaze,
""Through sentiment's inexplicable maze;
""Whose evanescent meaning caught meanwhile,
""Shall add new graces to enrich our style;
""New systems of philosophy be shown,
""With happier art in language all our own;
""New modes, new governments, new laws, new light,
""Shall put all superstition's train to flight;
""And revelation's trembling, dubious ray,
""No more its faint, uncertain beams display;
""But knowledge flash with such resplendent blaze,
""That maddening crowds grow giddy while they gaze.
""Such are our triumphs, while at ease reclin'd,
""With active force the comprehensive mind
""Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties,
""And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies.""",,18870,"","""With active force the comprehensive mind / Breaks custom's chains and prejudice's ties, / And wide in sportive curves unbounded flies.""",Fetters,2011-07-14 20:12:37 UTC,""