A Death-Scene quotation marks, this could show that Augusta is directly addressing her husband, Edward, as she calls to him with this name. The poem uses frequent references to water: "Arden's lake" in stanza 3, "eternal sea" in stanza 4 and "Eden isles" in stanza 6. This water is most probably Emily referring to the water surrounding Gondal. There are other parts of nature that are touched upon in this poem, primarily in stanza 10, these could showing how Augusta is turning to nature to help her cope with the oncoming and unavoidable grief. The poem describes Augusta's sorrow over her dying
Theory (poem) in the first lines of Canto III, Stanza LXXII of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage": "I live not in myself, but I become / Portion of that around me." Theory (poem) "Theory" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, "Harmonium." It was first published in 1917, so it is in the public domain. Buttel interprets the poem as one of Stevens's attempts to approach the rhythms of prose, as part of a strategic understatement that moves into a poem in an offhand, 'anti-poetic' way. He sees that the instances must carry the strength of the theory, but he says