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??

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.

The poem is in part about the misdirection of anger on the part of leadership.

( However, Pausanias 6. 18. 6 expresses doubt about his authorship of an epic poem on Alexander.

* poems to and about his friends ( e. g., an invitation like poem 13 ).

Both the team and its fans ( in the poem, about 5, 000 attended the game ) believe they can win " if only " they could somehow get " Mighty Casey " ( Mudville's star player ) up to bat.

In 1981, Charles climbed on stage at a Teardrop Explodes concert and recited a humorous, but derogatory poem about the band's singer.

In Jonathan Swift's poem: " The Progress of Beauty ", as goddess of the moon, Diana is used in comparison to the 17th / early 18th century everyday woman Swift satirically writes about.

Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".

Two mysteries remain about the poem: whether anyone or anyplace was the real-life Casey and Mudville, and, if so, their actual identities.

In November 1887, some of his reportage about a Kelly at-bat has the same ring as Casey's famous at-bat in the poem.

" The poem was long considered to be about two male hills in a quarrel over a female hill, but scholars now consider that Kagu and Mimihashi might be female hills in love with the same male hill, Unebi.

The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.

In the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, the god Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ) provides the young Agnarr with information about Odin's companions.

In the body of the poem, Odin describes at great length the cosmogony of the worlds, the dwelling places of its inhabitants, and talks about himself and his many guises.

When taken in the context of Dowson's poem about " Cynara ", the phrase " gone with the wind " alludes to erotic loss.

Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).

* In Michael Longley's poem ' Ceasefire ', Priam's petition to Achilles for the return of Hector's body is used as an analogue for the necessity for opposing sides to make conciliatory gestures, however difficult, to bring about peace in Northern Ireland.

In the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, the god Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ) provides the young Agnarr with information about Odin's companions.

He tells the prince about Odin's wolves Geri and Freki, and, in the next stanza of the poem, states that Huginn and Muninn fly daily across the entire world, Midgard.

Two lines of an otherwise lost poem about the god, Heimdalargaldr, survive.

At about the same time, a Life was written about him by Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as a poem by Reginald of Canterbury.

He also wrote a poem called " all about people " which criticises the humanity that is employers who illtreat others.

The theme of the poem is that nature will survive after humanity is gone, reflecting the theme of the story ; that even the vast cities of humanity will eventually be reclaimed by nature.

In the poem " It's Good ", Mayakovsky writes about socialist society being the " springtime of humanity ".

The poem, which is composed episodically, emphasizes the common humanity of all sides in the conflict, while principally lauding the heroism of the Finns.

Hugh MacDiarmid's poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, for example, has many passages of flyting in which the poet's opponent is, in effect, the rest of humanity.

The poem described the heroic past of Lithuania and exhorted its people to care for the land, care for humanity, and live in honor.

Another much-quoted phrase from the poem is " nature, red in tooth and claw ," found in Canto 56, referring to humanity:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky mentions the poem in Notes from Underground when the narrator states, " I received countless millions and immediately gave them away for the benefit of humanity, at the same moment confessing before the crowd all my infamies, which, of course, were not mere infamies, but also contained within them a wealth of ' the lofty and the beautiful ' of something Manfred-like " ( Dostoyevsky, page 57.

Two of his earliest important works, the play Offiziere (" Officers "; 1911 ) and the poem Vor der Entscheidung (" Before the Decision "; 1914 ) established his anti-war beliefs and his belief that the social order must be based not on authority, but on the integrity and responsibility of the individual towards humanity.

Soon, Ann hopes for a church wedding in the spring ; and, while plowing on June 2, she recites Edna St. Vincent Millay ’ s poem " Epitaph for the Race of Man ," happy that they can keep humanity from dying ( O ' Brien 96 ).

Völuspá, the first poem of the work, mentions many of the features and characters of Asgard portrayed by Snorri, such as Yggdrasil and Iðavöllr.

The poem Þrymskviða features Loki borrowing Freyja's cloak of feathers and Thor dressing up as Freyja to fool the lusty jötunn Þrymr.

Hautdesert is thought to be in the area of Swythamley in northwest Midland, as it lies in the writer's dialect area and matches the topographical features described in the poem.

Masterpieces were written by Edward Elgar ( a violin concerto and a cello concerto ), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner ( four and three piano concertos, respectively ), Jean Sibelius ( a violin concerto ), Frederick Delius ( a violin concerto, a cello concerto, a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello ), Karol Szymanowski ( two violin concertos and a " Symphonie Concertante " for piano ), and Richard Strauss ( two horn concertos, a violin concerto, Don Quixote — a tone poem which features the cello as a soloist — and among later works, an oboe concerto ).

The poem Volundarkvida, or the Lay of Volund, part of the Poetic Edda, also features swan maidens.

The fragmentary skaldic poem Hrafnsmál ( generally accepted as authored by 9th-century Norwegian skald Þorbjörn Hornklofi ) features a conversation between a valkyrie and a raven, largely consisting of the life and deeds of Harald I of Norway.

A passage of the 10th-century poem Haustlöng where the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir gives a lengthy description of a richly detailed shield he has received that features a depiction of the abduction of Iðunn.

An example of the trend is the epic poem Lāčplēsis by Andrejs Pumpurs, which features a pantheon of Latvian and Prussian gods and some the author has invented himself.

The poem Beowulf describes a draca (= dragon ) also as wyrm (= worm, or serpent ) and its movements by the Anglo-Saxon verb bugan = " to bend ", and says that it has a venomous bite ; all of these indicate a snake-like form and movement rather than with a lizard-like or dinosaur-like body as in later belief ( though the dragon of Beowulf does show several features that would later become popularized with dragons ; namely, it breathes fire, lives underground, and collects treasure ).

It features an eight-line poem by Nichol carved into the pavement: " A / LAKE / A / LANE / A / LINE / A / LONE ".

Its principal focus is Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas, but the second half of the poem also features actions of Robert II's Stewart forebears in the conflict.

In it, Sidney partially nativised the key features of his Italian model, Petrarch: variation of emotion from poem to poem, with the attendant sense of an ongoing, but partly obscure, narrative ; the philosophical trappings ; the musings on the act of poetic creation itself.

One of the contentious features of Ginsberg's poem Howl for authorities were lines about homosexual sex.

When one contrasts it to the popular heroic poem, such as Beowulf, one finds that they share certain common features.

On the variant, the bass line and keyboard chords of the original Tales of Mystery and Imagination track are heard, but they are quieter, do not feature a vocoder, and instead of an abridged version of the Poe poem being sung, the Woolfson version features a fuller spoken dramatic reading of the poem.

In March 2011, the remodeled queue area was revealed, with new tombstones honoring Imagineers ; a " murder mystery " for guests to solve involving the sinister Dread family ; the Composer's tomb, which features musical instruments that play " Grim Grinning Ghosts " when touched ; the Mariner's brine-filled sepulcher, whose ghost sings and sneezes from within ; a crypt for the poetess Prudence Pock, which features a cryptic message written on the sides of the tomb on moving, haunted books, and Prudence's ghost writing invisibly in her poem book.

The legend claims that her poem " I Shall Not Care " ( which features themes of abandonment, bitterness, and contemplation of death ) was penned as a suicide note to a former lover.

The town features in the Serbian 18th century epic poem " Marko Kraljević i Mina od Kostura " ( i. e. Prince Marko and Minnas of Kastoria ).

The bird also features, however, in The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, a poem by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in which the outcast speaker asks: " Could the whip-poor-will or the cat of the glen / Look into my eyes and be bold?

As in traditional mythology and folklore, the Common Raven features frequently in more modern writings such as the works of William Shakespeare, and, perhaps most famously, in the poem " The Raven " by Edgar Allan Poe.

Horace also features in the poem " Canada to England " by Craven Langstroth Betts: