The dragon-green, the luminous, the dark, the serpent-haunted sea.

James Elroy Flecker

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Topic

Ocean and sea

Author

James Elroy Flecker

Source

The Gates of Damascus

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Playwright Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Flecker, James Elroy. "The Gates of Damascus." The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1916, I. 33.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

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