Aylmer, Rose : daughter of Lord Aylmer, whose lover Landor (q.v.) wrote the elegy Rose Aylmer. Exiled to Calcutta, she died at the age of twenty.
... Perhaps no better illustration of the complete lyric in a brief compass can be offered than Landor's two-stanza'd Rose Aylmer : Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes Page 49 May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs... sighs I consecrate to thee. Added to the alliteration and assonance, the music here has the Miltonic flux and reflux - "Ah" twice, "what" thrice, "every" and "Rose Aylmer" two times. In the second stanza we have also instances of the Miltonic enjambment, the running-over from line 1 to line 2 and from the third line to the fourth. The pauses everywhere are diversely disposed. There... effective and appealing things in Paradise Lost, things like Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me - 7 or else: Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More ...
... departures may be less near in certain respects to those commonly made but they are in keeping with the essence of the latter and stem from the same principle as they. In the lines from Landor's Rose Aylmer— A night of memories and signs I consecrate to thee— "the word 'consecrate'," say the authors of Understanding Poetry? "is accented in ordinary usage on the first syllable ...
... kind of style deliberately aimed at by Landor; but this can be very stiff and stilted as Landor is in his more ambitious attempts—although he did magnificent things sometimes, like his lines on Rose Aylmer,—you can see there how emotion itself can gain by a spare austerity in self-expression. But it is doubtful whether all these kinds—Wordsworth's lyrics, for example, the "Daffodils", the "Cuckoo"—can ...
... kind of style deliberately aimed at by Landor; 1 but this can be very stiff and stilted as Landor is in his more ambitious attempts— although he did magnificent things sometimes, like his lines on Rose Aylmer; you can see there how emotion itself can gain by a spare austerity in self-expression. It is doubtful whether all these kinds—Wordsworth's lyrics, for example, the Daffodils, the Cuckoo —can... why you and Amal find so much difficulty with Yeats' lines; they seem to me quite clear. "Wintry mould" is the clay of the field in the form it takes in winter. "Blossoms a rose" must mean "blossoms as a rose, in the form of a rose"; the other sense seems to me inadmissible. "A casket for my dreams" can only mean "a casket (meant) to hold my dreams"—at least, for the moment I cannot think of any other ...
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