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The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
Aldous Huxley
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The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of twenty-two sonnets that explores irreconcilability of the ideal and the disappointing reality. Jerome Meckier called it “the century’s most successful sonnet sequence, better than Auden’s or Edna St. Vincent Millay’s.” In the rest of the volume, Huxley continues to explore themes started in The Burning Wheel, his first volume of poetry, including vision, blindness, and other contrasts.
The volume begins with "The Defeat of Youth", a sequence of twenty-two sonnets that explores irreconcilability of the ideal and the disappointing reality. Jerome Meckier called it “the century’s most successful sonnet sequence, better than Auden’s or Edna St. Vincent Millay’s.” In the rest of the volume, Huxley continues to explore themes started in The Burning Wheel, his first volume of poetry, including vision, blindness, and other contrasts.
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Close folded by his arms in glad surrender,
Smiling, and with drooped head and half closed eyes. XIV.
"I give you all; would that I might give more."
He sees the colour dawn across her cheeks
And die again to white; marks as she speaks
The trembling of her lips, as though she bore
Some sudden pain and hardly mastered it.
Within his arms he feels her shuddering,
Piteously trembling like some wild wood-thing
Caught unawares. Compassion infinite
Mounts up within him. Thus to hold and keep
And comfort her distressed, lull her to sleep
And gently kiss her brow and hair and eyes
Seems love perfected—templed high and white
Against the calm of golden autumn skies,
And shining quenchlessly with vestal light.
[Pg 12]
XV.But passion ambushed by the aerial shrine
Comes forth to . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Puanım 3/5 (%63/100)
Genel olarak hoşuma gitti. Huxley'nin Cesur Yeni Dünya'sı en en sevdiğim bilimkurgu eserlerindendir. Onun dışında yazarı pek tanıdığım da söylenemez. Bu kitabı da birkaç kere görmüştüm. Plüton Yayınları sağ olsun bana yolladı kitabı. Huxley'nin şiir yazdığını bilmiyordum ve roman
Not my favorite Huxley work, nor work of poetry, but it was a decent read.
Some truly beautiful poems
These poems, many masterfully written, include some of the most powerful evocations I have ever read. Particularly powerful were those depicting the dawn of love.
My favorite one is The Life Theoretic Poem
I wasn't fond of the overall organization of the book.
Not as profound as what I was expecting, based on his other writing.