...birds of prey (say, vultures) is not, when you come to look at it, all that appealing a simile. Or take "And tear our pleasures with rough strife, / Thorough the iron gates of life." Tear, rough, strife; iron gates: these are all violent, harsh, daunting words. They do not make the...

...recreated and exceeded. There is something one can do about destiny's incessant alteration of identity: 'though we cannot make our Sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run'. Assume destiny and accelerate the process of alteration, taking control of and simultaneouslv giving...

...now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. Seolar smiled at her and as be did she could feel him sliding away from her, not just for the moment...

...now, like am Vous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapt power, Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him...

...poet, Andrew Marvell, uses the word in this way in his erotically-charged poem, "To His Coy Mistress": Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness,...one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. The ball in idioms such as "We're having a ball!" is unrelated to the...

...That is not it, at all." This crucial stanza juxtaposes references to Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" ("Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball") and the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead, setting the two allusions in ironic counterpoint to...

...Saint John the Baptist (Mark 6:17-29). 8. To have squeezed . . .: cf. Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress": "Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball . . ." 9. Lazarus: resurrected; see John 11:1-44. 10. progress: "A state journey made by a royal or...

...birds of prey LOVE AND Rather at once our time devour PASSION Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. ANDREW MARVELL ENGLISH (1621-1678) The Prince of Love How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted...

...languish in his slow-chapp'd power. us roll all our strength, and all sweetness, up into one ball; tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the...make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. MARYLAND I Date: Location: Parliamentarians: Royalists: Tactical Results: Strategic Results: March...

...poetry — the supreme result — embodies or enforces a fierce nominalism. What does pleasure mean? And tear our Pleasures with rough strife, Thorough the Iron gates of Life. Marvell s wholeness takes part of itself from the violence of "tear" (referring not only to maidenhead...