Arms and the Boy The title alludes to the opening words of Virgil's Latin epic poem the "Aeneid": "Arma virumque cano" ("Of arms and the man I sing"). The poem is written in heroic couplets, in which successive pairs of lines have related ending sounds. In this instance, the final words do not rhyme; for example, "blade" and "blood" in the quotation. This is a scheme called half rhyme. Text of the Poem at Poetry Foundation Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I;
The Rich Boy some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal. The Rich Boy "The Rich Boy" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection "All the Sad Young Men. "The Rich Boy" originally appeared in two parts, in the January and February 1926 issues of "Redbook". Fitzgerald wrote "The Rich Boy" in 1924, in Capri, while awaiting publication of "The Great Gatsby". He revised it in his apartment at 14 Rue de Tilsitt in Paris the following spring, at what he described as a period of "1000 parties and