for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

He is proud of having Segovia for a friend and dedicated a poem to him titled `` The Guitar ''.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

so that, while it usually is easy to recognize a poem by Hardy, it is difficult to date one.

There was one sterile period: only one poem is dated between 1872 and 1882 and, except for the poems written on the trip to Italy in 1887, very few from 1882 to 1890.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

After 1895 the number increases, and in the next thirty years there is only one year for which there is no dated poem -- 1903, when Hardy was at work on The Dynasts.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

" The adversary " occurs in the framing story alone — he is never clearly alluded to in the central poem.

Robert Frost alluded to the merging of Amygdalaceae into Rosaceae in his poem The Rose Family, when he wrote " The rose is a rose and was always a rose / But the theory now goes that the apple's a rose, / and the pear is, and so's the plum, I suppose.

The tale is also alluded to by John Critchley Prince in lines 24 to 29 of his poem " North Wales :" " Thou hast not trod with pilgrim foot the ground / Where sleeps the canine martyr of distrust, / Poor Gelert, famed in song, as brave a hound / As ever guarded homestead, hut, or hall, / Or leapt exulting at the hunter ’ s call ; / As ever grateful man consigned to dust.

Sextus is the earliest known source for the proverb " Slowly grinds the mill of the gods, but it grinds fine ", alluded to in Longfellow's poem " Retribution ".

Medb's relationship with Fergus is alluded to in the early poem Conailla Medb míchuru (" Medb has entered evil contracts ") by Luccreth moccu Chiara ( c. 600 ); it asserts that Medb wrongly seduced Fergus into turning against Ulster " because he preferred the buttocks of a woman to his own people ".

* Robert Frost alluded to Stein's sentence in his poem " The Rose Family ," from the 1929 collection West-Running Brook.

The difference in pronunciation is alluded to in the poem which contains the lines:

John Donne is alluded to twice, first is in Chapter 10 when Howl refers to the first line of John Donne's poem " The Sun Rising ", saying " Busy old fool, unruly Sophie.

It has also been speculated that Geoffrey Chaucer may have alluded to Philippa in his poem, “ The Legend of Good Women ,” through the character, Alceste.

The phrase " wilderness of mirrors " from the poem has been alluded to by many other writers and artists.

As well as being a common phrase, the poem is alluded to in the Grateful Dead song " Black Muddy River ".

In a poem of about 1686, Tate alluded to James II as Aeneas, who is misled by the evil machinations of the Sorceress and her witches ( representing Roman Catholicism, a common metaphor at the time ) into abandoning Dido, who symbolizes the British people.

The poem is repeatedly alluded to in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger.

Richard Lovelace used the name in a poem (" To Althea, From Prison ") that John Milton later alluded to in Lycidas.

Eliot wrote a two-part poem about Coriolanus, " Coriolan " ( an alternative spelling of Coriolanus ); he also alluded to Coriolanus in a passage from his own The Waste Land when he wrote, " Revive for a moment a broken Coriolanus.

The character is alluded to in the title of a Wallace Stevens poem, " Peter Quince at the Clavier ", which is written in the first person as if spoken by Quince.

It is also related in the Þiðrekssaga af Bern ( Velents þáttr smiðs ) and it is alluded to in the Old English poem The Lament of Deor.

The battle is alluded to in the Old English 10th century poem Deor.

The Old Man of the Sea is alluded to in Edwin Arlington Robinson's book-length narrative poem King Jasper.

Celaeno is sometimes called the Lost Pleiad, a name alluded to in a poem by Alfred Austin.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

* Oscar Wilde wrote a poem entitled " Ravenna " in 1878.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

* " Endymion ", a poem by Oscar Wilde

He made many television appearances, including an episode of NBC's The Virginian, in the episode " The Brazen Bell ", in which he recites Oscar Wilde's poem " The Ballad Of Reading Gaol ".

He appeared on the television show The Equalizer in the 1987 episode " First Light " and as the narrator of director Richard Kwietniowski's short film Ballad of Reading Gaol ( 1988 ), based on the poem by Oscar Wilde.

* To R. R .: On Rereading the " De Profundis " of Oscar Wilde ( 1912 ), a poem by Florence Earle Coates.

The lyrics were based on the poem " Les Silhouettes " by Oscar Wilde, and Cale co-wrote the music with Zazou.

* Jeanne Moreau-" Each Man Kills The Things He Loves " ( Music by Peer Raben, lyrics from Oscar Wilde's poem " The Ballad of Reading Gaol ")

* " Ravenna ", a poem by Oscar Wilde

* A Sufi poem called al-Zib wa al-Kis reworks Oscar Wilde's plot around a mystical theme

Among Ibert's early orchestral compositions were La Ballade de la geôle de Reading, inspired by Oscar Wilde's poem, and Escales ( Ports of call ), inspired by his experiences of Mediterranean ports while he was serving in the navy.

" On these walks he often carried with him Oscar Williams ' A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry ( 1946 ), and Hill speculates: " there was probably a time when I knew every poem in that anthology by heart.

In an episode of The Odd Couple, Oscar mentions the poem casually to Felix.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol ( 1904 ) The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about 19 May 1897.

Giovannitti's poem " The Walker ," in which he recounted the tormented footsteps of a prisoner, brought him comparisons to Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde.

He is also praised for his passion in Oscar Wilde's poem " Amor Intellectualis ".

Oscar Wilde dedicated to him his long poem " The Sphinx " ( 1894 ) " in friendship and admiration.

He translated La balada de la cárcel de Reading ( 1932 ; “ The Ballad of Reading Gaol ”) from the English poem by the 19th-century writer Oscar Wilde.