poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by Ernest Dowson
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"Vitae Summa Brevis" is a brief, melancholic lyric poem by Ernest Dowson, best known for its haunting meditation on the brevity of life and love.
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| poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by Ernest Dowson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by Ernest Dowson Context triple: [Days of Wine and Roses, titleOrigin, poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by Ernest Dowson]
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poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Spring and Fall" is a lyric poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that meditates on innocence, mortality, and the dawning awareness of human sorrow through a speaker’s address to a child named Margaret.
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins is the influential 1918 collection that first brought the innovative, rhythmically experimental poetry of the Victorian Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to public attention after his death.
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poem "Rabbi Ben Ezra" by Robert Browning
"Rabbi Ben Ezra" is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning that meditates on aging, faith, and the spiritual purpose of human life.
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The Sonnet
The Sonnet is a sequence of interconnected sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that forms a central poetic component of his larger work, "The House of Life."
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poem "Lepanto" by G. K. Chesterton
"Lepanto" is a narrative poem by G. K. Chesterton that celebrates the 1571 naval victory of the Holy League over the Ottoman Empire with vivid, martial imagery and a strongly Catholic, heroic tone.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by Ernest Dowson Target entity description: "Vitae Summa Brevis" is a brief, melancholic lyric poem by Ernest Dowson, best known for its haunting meditation on the brevity of life and love.
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A.
poem "Spring and Fall" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Spring and Fall" is a lyric poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that meditates on innocence, mortality, and the dawning awareness of human sorrow through a speaker’s address to a child named Margaret.
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B.
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins is the influential 1918 collection that first brought the innovative, rhythmically experimental poetry of the Victorian Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to public attention after his death.
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C.
poem "Rabbi Ben Ezra" by Robert Browning
"Rabbi Ben Ezra" is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning that meditates on aging, faith, and the spiritual purpose of human life.
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D.
The Sonnet
The Sonnet is a sequence of interconnected sonnets by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that forms a central poetic component of his larger work, "The House of Life."
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E.
poem "Lepanto" by G. K. Chesterton
"Lepanto" is a narrative poem by G. K. Chesterton that celebrates the 1571 naval victory of the Holy League over the Ottoman Empire with vivid, martial imagery and a strongly Catholic, heroic tone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
lyric poem
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poem ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Aestheticism
NERFINISHED
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English Decadent poetry ⓘ fin de siècle literature ⓘ |
| author | Ernest Dowson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Ernest Dowson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstLine | They are not long, the weeping and the laughter ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
contrast between joy and sorrow
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inevitability of loss ⓘ |
| form | short lyric ⓘ |
| genre | lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasImagery |
fleeting days
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wine and roses ⓘ |
| hasLength | short ⓘ |
| hasMood | wistful ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | first-person plural and reflective ⓘ |
| influenced |
The Days of Wine and Roses (1958 teleplay title)
NERFINISHED
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The Days of Wine and Roses (1962 film title) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Days of Wine and Roses (song title) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 1890s ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | well-known poem by Ernest Dowson ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | classical allusion ⓘ |
| meter | accentual-syllabic verse ⓘ |
| movement | Decadent movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableLine | They are not long, the days of wine and roses ⓘ |
| publicationContext | late Victorian poetry collections by Ernest Dowson ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | regular rhyme scheme ⓘ |
| subjectOf | literary criticism on Ernest Dowson ⓘ |
| theme |
brevity of life
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ephemerality of happiness ⓘ melancholy ⓘ mortality ⓘ transience of love ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | The short sum of life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleSource | Horace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tone |
elegiac
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melancholic ⓘ |
| usesDevice |
allusion
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contrast ⓘ repetition ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Ernest Dowson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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