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Editor) Poetry from Cambridge 1951-52: A Selection of Verse by Members of the University, Fortune Press (London, England), 1953. These poems show Gunn’s propensity to try, not always successfully, to make meaning of action in the intervals between action. “The Wound” is a good example. While recuperating, a soldier remembers the engagement of battle. As “the huge wound in my head began to heal,” he remembers the Trojan War, but it is unclear whether this was his actual experience or only a hallucination. It could be that he is a contemporary soldier reverting to myth in the damaged and “darkened” valleys of his mind. When he rises to act again, his wound “breaks open wide,” and he must again wait for “those storm-lit valleys to heal.” His identity is thus never resolved. That last image speaks for the poet’s liberated irony, his courage to allow for a mordant gay wit in the midst of gay sorrow.Observer (London, England), July 10, 1988; December 13, 1992, Kate Kellaway, "A Poet Who's Still Firing on All Cylinders," p. 43. Times Literary Supplement, September 29, 1961; January 1, 1967; October 5, 1967; April 24, 1969; April 16, 1971; August 30, 1974; July 23, 1982; May 1, 1992, Hugh Haughton, review of The Man with Night Sweats, p. 12; March 18, 1994, Glyn Maxwell, review of Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview, p. 10; March 10, 2000, Sean O'Brien, review of Boss Cupid, p. 23.

A theme in many of Gunn’s writings, as in this one, is the theme of the soldier. An element Gunn often attaches to the soldier is the will that they carry with them. The ideal of the will, which Gunn tries to put across, is the energy and way to take on everything. Although not directly mentioned in this poem, Gunn transcends the mentality of the soldier in the way of suffering through all that is against him, yet still being able to hold on to yourself through all of the pain. The title poem, “My Sad Captains,” is a tribute to all those friends who have inspired the poet, “a few with historical/ names.” These men who were immersed in experience once seemed to him to have lived only to “renew the wasteful force they/ spent with each hot convulsion”; yet now they exist “apart” from life, “winnowed from failures,” and indeed above life, “and turn with disinterested/ hard energy, like the stars.” Booklist, April 15, 1994, Ray Olson, review of Collected Poems, p. 1503; June 1, 2000, Ray Olson, review of Boss Cupid, p. 1808; March 15, 2001, Ray Olson, review of Boss Cupid, p. 1349. In this collection of often-heartbreaking poems about young men shadowboxing with a disease that consumes them with lingering cruelty, Gunn has discovered a “passion” into which to “concentrate” his own powers of poetic statement. Like Cunningham, he is now a poet of great intensity and severely disciplined craft. The skepticism of his previous poetry, which suited the impersonality and abstraction of his classically balanced lines and sounds, here gives way to lament and elegy, lyrical meditation and, most of all, a form of metaphysical rage. That rage, fired and cooled in those precisely tooled and balanced lines of his, enables Gunn, at times to strike a tragic chord. Sophocles and Shakespeare, Oedipius at Colonus and Lear on the heath, hover over the following lines from “Terminal,” describing a man dying of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as his devoted lover helps him descend a flight of stairs: The eight years difference in age seems now Disparity so wide between the two That when I see the man who armoured stood Resistant to all help however good Now helped through day itself, eased into chairs, Or else led step by step down the long stairs With firm and gentle guidance by his friend, Who loves him, through each effort to descend, Each wavering, each attempt made to complete An arc of movement and bring down the feet As if with that spare strength he used to enjoy, I think of Oedipus, old, led by a boy.brucellosis, an infection you can get from animals with brucellosis or unpasteurized products from infected animals Your room, mattress, and pajamas could all influence whether you sweat during the night. Your bed may be adorned with several cozy blankets that cause overheating. Similarly, your pajamas could be too heavy, or your mattress may not be breathable. Adjusting the environment may help alleviate your night sweats. Your nighttime routine

Increased sweating often happens if you’re dealing with anxiety or stress. You might notice you’re sweating more during the day when you’re worried about something. But this sweating can also occur during the night. National Library of Medicine, Biotech Information The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. View Source during the day and at night. Other symptoms include fatigue, weight loss, heart palpitations, tremors, anxiety, and disturbed sleep. Treatment involves antithyroid drugs, radioactive iodine ablation, or surgery. A poet interested in the possibilities of identity, Gunn is best known for his explorations into the existential hero, who takes many guises in his poetry, including the soldier and the motorcyclist. The greatest influence on his thought in these matters has been the existentialism espoused by Jean-Paul Sartre in his philosophical treatise Being and Nothingness (1956). For Sartre, humanity is condemned to freedom to make its own meaning in an absurd universe. For Gunn, poetry has been the vehicle of this creation. Fighting Terms The Sense of Movement, Faber (London, England), 1957, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1959.https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15603-low-testosterone-male-hypogonadism/management-and-treatment National Library of Medicine, Biotech Information The National Center for Biotechnology Information advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. View Source , and spicy foods If your night sweats don’t result from one of the above issues, your healthcare provider may want to rule out these less common causes. 5. Low testosterone Shetty, A., Ribeiro, D., Evans, A., & Linnane, S. (2004). Gonococcal endocarditis: A rare complication of a common disease. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 57(7), 780–781.

Morriston, Blake, The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s, Oxford University Press, 1980. If hyperhidrosis affects your sleep or day-to-day life, your healthcare provider can recommend treatment, including prescription medications. 4. Medication Night Sweat’ by Robert Lowell contains two sonnets. The first one is in Shakespearean sonnet form and the following one is written in the Petrarchan sonnet form. Moreover, the rhyme scheme of the first fourteen-line is “ABBA CDCD EFEF GG”. In the following sonnet, the poet uses the “ABABCDDC EFGFGE” rhyme scheme. There are a total of 10 syllables in each line and the overall poem is composed of iambic pentameter with some variations. There are spondee, pyrrhic, and trochaic variations in the poem.Talbot Road” is a poetic treatment of Gunn’s “year of great happiness” in London during the Beatles era, when, according to his almost-identical prose account in “My Life up to Now” (1977), “barriers seemed to be coming down all over.” One of these barriers had to do with Gunn’s own sexuality. The centerpiece of the five-part poem is a return to Hampstead Heath, where he meets “my past self” in the form of a nineteen- year-old. “This was the year,” he says, “the year of reconciliation,” but it is unclear whether he means his own nineteenth year of 1964-1965; the ambiguity is intentional, for he means both. Hampstead Heath had been for him the scene of childish play and vague adolescent longings, where by day he “had played hide and seek/ with neighbor children”; in 1964, however, he could see the dark side that had always been there, since by night the Heath had long been a notorious venue for promiscuous sexual encounters, and there he now “played as an adult/ with troops of men whose rounds intersected/ at the Orgy Tree.” Smith, D. T., Mouzon, D. M., & Elliott, M. (2018). Reviewing the assumptions about men’s mental health: An exploration of the gender binary. American Journal of Men’s Health, 12(1), 78–89. While many minor infections can cause night sweats, they are also a symptom of serious infections like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)