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

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United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

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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Time
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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

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Time
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Era
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Citation

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1915 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 1.

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One swallow does not make a spring.

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Source
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Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
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Time
322 BC 320s BC 4th century BC
Era
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