This poem uses the rivers Alpheus and Arethusa to bookmark a section criticizing those who "play lean and flashy songs" on "scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."
This poem uses the rivers Alpheus and Arethusa to bookmark a section criticizing those who "play lean and flashy songs" on "scrannel Pipes of wretched straw." In this poem, the god of the Cam river asks "Who hath reft...my dearest pledge?" before "the Pilot of the Galilean lake" denounces "Blind mouths!" who swell their listeners with wind instead of feeding them. At the end of this poem, a swain calls the title character "the Genius of the shore"after imploring "Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth." Foretelling "the ruin of our corrupted / Clergy then at their height," for 10 points, name this elegy on the drowning of Edward King, written by John Milton.
This poem uses the rivers Alpheus and Arethusa to bookmark a section criticizing those who "play lean and flashy songs" on "scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."
"Lycidas"