Friday, July 24, 2009

Queen Mab's opening lines

In P.B. Shelley's letters, Thomas Peacock annotates that Shelley had sent Byron a pamphlet of his poem Queen Mab [quot. marks] long before they actually met [add source]. Byron greatly admired the opening lines. Now, the actual opening lines were a dedication to Harriet, but I think Peacock must mean the poem itself:
HOW wonderful is Death,        Death, and his brother Sleep! 
 One, pale as yonder waning moon        With lips of lurid blue;        The other, rosy as the morn      When throned on ocean's wave            It blushes o'er the world;      Yet both so passing wonderful! 
How could you make your opening paragraph more engaging? Also, you need a conclusion.


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