Elevation | Charles Baudelaire

The central theme of the poem is the importance of dreams. Langston Hughes suggests that dreams give life meaning and purpose, helping individuals avoid an existence as empty as a broken-winged bird or a barren field.

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"To be, or not to be" is a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 1).

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Elevation is a poem written by the French poet Charles Baudelaire and published in 1857. He believed that Romanticism represented the ideal. In his poem, he imagined traveling beyond earth, which is full with ancient woe and ill, to the imperceptible and oblivious space. This is a translated version of the poem made by George Dillon.

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Good Timber was written by the American poet and short-story writer Douglas Malloch. In it, Douglas anticipates the future state of people with no goal in life, especially the ones who do not strive on a daily basis to reach a decent stature inward and outward. He figuratively compares between a tree’s bad timber with an idle silly person, then he compares a tree’s good timber with a patient and hardworking person. Patience and daily strife are what contributes in the making of a good essence no matter the hard circumstances.

The poem was written by the American Poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. One of his famous poems are “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “The Song of Hiawatha”. In his poem “A Psalm of life”, he urges people to think & act in the living present, and to get rid of depressed & melancholic thoughts about the unknown future and the buried past. He praises the eternal soul which does not slumbers, and he distinguishes it from the transient flesh which is made of dust (or clay) and becomes dust after death.