Is Nothing Gold Can Stay a lyric poem?

“Nothing Gold Can Stay” is, in fact, the only poem in New Hampshire (out of forty-four pieces) that is written in the short trimeter line. All of these stylistic features…

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Who is Nunyunnini?

God name: Nunyunnini The god was called Nunyunnini, and the tribe prayed to him to release them from the cold embrace of starvation. It's possible that Gaiman conceived Nunyunnini as…

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What does it mean when a leaf subsides to leaf?

Line 5. Then leaf subsides to leaf. This line shows us what happens after the early leaf is no longer figuratively a flower—it becomes a true leaf. But the speaker…

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