Editing The Triumph of Time

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"'''The Triumph of Time'''" is a poem by [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-28|title=The Triumph of Time by Algernon Charles Swinburne|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45307/the-triumph-of-time-56d224c3d1e6c|access-date=2020-08-28|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en}}</ref> published in ''[[Poems and Ballads]]'' in 1866.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Joyce Project : Ulysses : Great sweet mother|url=http://m.joyceproject.com/notes/010032sweetmother.html|access-date=2020-08-28|website=m.joyceproject.com}}</ref> It is in adapted [[ottava rima]] and is full of elaborate use of literary devices, particularly [[alliteration]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Thompson|first=Aidan Philip|url=http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/5872/1/Thompson15MPhil.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/5872/1/Thompson15MPhil.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title=A Poem Should Not Mean, But Be': POETIC FORM VS. CONTENT IN ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE|year=2015|location=Birmingham|pages=25–27}}</ref> The theme, which purports to be autobiographical, is that of rejected love. The speaker deplores the ruin of his life, and in tones at times reminiscent of ''[[Hamlet]]'', craves oblivion, for which the sea serves as a constant metaphor.

==See also==
*''[[Poems and Ballads]]''

==Notes==
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==External links==
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*[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/triumph-time Complete text of the poem]
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/swinburne/swinburne9.html#1 ''Victorian Web'' article on the poem]

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