A poem by Apollo in “The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle” by Rick Riordan.
I’m an English major in lockdown so you’re getting an analysis. Also I didn’t get all of these when I first read this book but now I’m older and (hopefully) wiser so here we go, enjoy
Oh geyser, my geyser: “O Captain, my Captain” - Walt Whitman
Let us spew then, you and I: “Let us go then, you and I” - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
Upon this midnight dreary, while we ponder: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I ponder” - The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
Whose woods are these?: “Whose woods these are I think I know”, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
For we have not gone gentle into this good night: “Do not go gentle into this good night”, Dylan Thomas
But have wandered lonely as clouds: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, William Wordsworth
We seek to know for whom the bell tolls: “For whom the bell tolls”, John Donne
So I hope, springs eternal: “Hope springs eternal”, An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope
That the time has come to talk of many things: from The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carroll
