Make fierce memories of life's transience and beauty.
From Wordsworth onwards, all the greatest English poets of place – Clare, Hardy, Hopkins, Thomas himself – deliver not chocolate-box pastorals but an outer landscape of risk, change and upheaval, and an inner one of fierce introspection over memory, consciousness and time.
What he finds is a monastery rife with fierce rivalries, bitter memories and a deadly secret which keeps drawing him back to the library and its hidden collection of forbidden books.
The tug of memory and fierce attachment, the vision of his mother as young and handsome, and his son dressed and armed when he had last seen him, are set against the song of the nightingale and the noise of preparation.
LONDON — On the second day of a visit to the Irish Republic, Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday visited the site of a massacre more than 90 years ago that still evokes memories of fierce hostilities between Ireland and Britain.
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II neared the end of a visit to the Irish Republic on Thursday after visiting the site of a massacre more than 90 years ago that still evokes memories of fierce hostilities and speaking of her "deep sympathy" for past suffering.
The war brought down the Fourth Republic, returned Charles de Gaulle to power, and left rage in its wake .The loss of Algeria was experienced in France as a sort of amputation," says Benjamin Stora, a French historian, "The subject is still burning, and the war of memories is fierce".
Games writers, on the other hand, are fierce critics with long memories.
