Many questions remain unanswered — most importantly, it is not clear why the couple split up — but Catullus's poems about the relationship display striking depth and psychological insight.

Catullus's poems were widely appreciated by other poets.

Catullus's poems have been preserved in an anthology of 116 carmina ( the actual number of poems may slightly vary in various editions ), which can be divided into three parts according to their form: sixty short poems in varying metres, called polymetra, eight longer poems, and forty-eight epigrams.

All these poems describe the lifestyle of Catullus and his friends, who, despite Catullus's temporary political post in Bithynia, lived their lives withdrawn from politics.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

Catullus's poetry was influenced by the innovative poetry of the Hellenistic Age, and especially by Callimachus and the Alexandrian school, which had propagated a new style of poetry that deliberately turned away from the classical epic poetry in the tradition of Homer.

The affair ends badly, and Catullus's declarations of love turn to attacks on her sexual appetites — rhetoric that accords with the other hostile source on Clodia's behavior, Cicero's Pro Caelio.

Catullus writes about a former friend named Rufus who betrayed him in an unspecified way, perhaps referring to the affair with Clodia ( usually identified with the loved then reviled " Lesbia " of Catullus's poetry ), the alleged attempt of Caelius to poison her, or subsequent attacks on her through Cicero.

It is dedicated to Cornelius Nepos, a historian and minor poet, though some consider Catullus's praise of Cornelius's history of the Italians to have been sarcastic.

The meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic, a common form in Catullus's poetry.

It took the form to new heights using the London Festival Orchestra, a loose affiliation of Decca's classical musicians given a fictitious name adding the term " London " to sound impressive, to provide an orchestral linking framework to the Moodies already written and performed songs, plus overture & conclusion sections on the album including backing up Graeme Edge's opening & closing poems recited by Pinder.

The composing credits were listed on the sleeve as: " Redwave-Knight ", when in fact Hayward wrote " Nights ..." and " Tuesday Afternoon ", Thomas provided " Another Morning " and " Twilight Time ", Lodge penned " Peak Hour " and " Evening ( Time To Get Away )", and Edge contributed the opening and closing poems ( the first ' Morning Glory ' and the latter titled " Late Lament ") read by Mike Pinder who composed both " The Sun Set " and " Dawn is a Feeling " ( sung by Hayward, with Pinder himself singing the bridge section ).

He also published " The Last Fruit off an Old Tree ", containing fresh conversations, critical and controversial essays, miscellaneous epigrams, lyrics and occasional poems of various kind and merit, closing with Five Scenes on the martyrdom of Beatrice Cenci.

One was The Führer Bunker cycle of poems, monologues by Adolf Hitler and his circle in the closing days of the Third Reich, a ' poem in progress ' that began to appear from 1977 onwards and was finally completed in 1995.

The Old Norse poems Völuspá, Grímnismál, Darraðarljóð, and the Nafnaþulur section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, provide lists of valkyrie names.

New in this edition were the Zee-straet, the Mengelingh ( a section of serious poems written after 1657 ) and seven books with snel-dichten ( quick poems ).

In addition to the well-known greenhouse poems, the Poetry Foundation notes that Roethke also won praise " for his love poems which first appeared in The Waking and earned their own section in the new book ' were a distinct departure from the painful excavations of the monologues and in some respects a return to the strict stanzaic forms of the earliest work ,' to the poet Stanley Kunitz.

In the wake of the prosecution a second edition was issued in 1861 which added 32 new poems, removed the six suppressed poems and added a new section entitled Tableaux Parisiens.

Some of his lyric output is inserted in his narrative poems or " dits ", such as Le remède de fortune (" The Cure of Ill Fortune ") which includes one of each genre of lyric poetry, and Le voir dit (" A True Story "), but most are included in a separate, unordered section entitled Les loanges des dames.

") The second passage Welles reads ( which comes before Fall of the House of Usher ( Prelude ), seems to be a partial paraphrase or composite from nonfiction by Poe, chiefly from a collection of poems titled " Poems of Youth " by Poe ( contained in " Introduction to Poems – 1831 " in a section titled " Letter to Mr. B -----------"; the " Shadows of shadows passing " part of the quote comes from the Marginalia.

This book consists of three sections: a journal of gardening and visitors ; a section of more finished poems, filled with a landscape of Western Sonoma County ; and a single, long poem written in sparse triplets to reflect a white-tail kite ’ s hovering flight.

" For the Union Dead was Lowell's first book since Life Studies to contain all original verse ( since it did not include any translations ), and in writing the poems in this volume, Lowell built upon the looser, more personal style of writing that he'd established in the final section of Life Studies.

The separate poems and section are opportunist and inspired by impulse.

Two further 7th century poems also allude to elements of the story: in Verba Scáthaige (" Words of Scáthach "), the warrior-woman Scáthach prophesies Cú Chulainn's combats at the ford ; and Ro-mbáe laithi rordu rind (" We had a great day of plying spear-points "), attributed to Cú Chulainn himself, refers to an incident in the Boyhood Deeds section of the Táin.

" The basic unit of meaning in Armantrout's poetry is either the stanza or the section, and she writes both prose poetry and more traditional stanza-based poems.

The poems of the Milan Papyrus are grouped into sections, and the papyrus largely preserves the section headers for the surviving poems:

The twelve poems that comprise this section of the epic work have been translated into English regularly since even before its initial publication in Spanish in 1950, beginning with a 1948 translation by Hoffman Reynolds Hays in The Tiger's Eye, a journal of arts and literature published out of New York from 1947 – 1949, and followed closely by a translation by Waldeen in 1950 in a pamphlet called Let the Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems for a Marxist publishing house in New York.

In the section on travel poems, the progression is from ancient poets and styles to modern ones, and as is common in Japanese waka anthologies, the sections on Love are arranged to show the stages of an affair from first love to bitter parting.

His first book of poems Love in Earnest ( 1892 ) was dedicated to the memory of his mother, but the first section, a sequence of 50 numbered sonnets ( which open with " Some lightly love, but mine is Love in Earnest -/ My heart is ever faithful while it hears / An echo of itself in thine, though years / Should pass ere its full passion thou returnest "), was dedicated to " W. E. M.

For example, the first edition of Washington, D. C .' s Street Sense included a description of a prominent homeless community, an interview with a congresswoman, an editorial about the costs and benefits of taking a job, several poems about homelessness, a how-to column, and a section for recipes.

Only three gods, Thor, Baldur, and Váli / Bous, are explicitly identified as sons of Odin in the Eddic poems, in the skaldic poems, in Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum, and in the Gylfaginning section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda.

This section is called a shitang ( 詩塘 ) and is usually reserved for inscriptions onto the work of art, ranging from a short verse to poems and other inscriptions, and these inscriptions are often done by people other than the artist.

but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.

In many of his poems, death comes by train: a strongly evocative visual image.

Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.

Carl Eduard Schmidt counted 1804 different lines repeated exactly in the two Homeric poems, and by increasing this figure so as to include lines repeated with very slight modifications he counted 2118 different lines used a total of 5612 times.

The style is characterized by specific rhythms and of Qacidate ( Popular poems ) in Arabic dialect that are long poems from the Algerian heritage.

His son was born in August 1920 and in 1924 Milne produced a collection of children's poems When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard.

Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson.

Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars ( 796 ), an epistle to David ( Charlemagne ) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace.

Angilbert's poems have been published by E. Dummler in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

Among his epic poems, we possess the titles and some fragments of three pieces: the Fisherman, Kirka or Krika, which, however, is designated by Athenaeus as doubtful, and Helena, Of his elegies, some beautiful fragments are still extant.

His Cynaedi, or Ionic poems (), are mentioned by Strabo and Athenaeus.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

The poems are pervaded by deep pessimism and preoccupation with death, without religious consolation.

In the 1985 film „ Out of Africa ” Karen “ Tanja “ Blixen, the character played by Meryl Streep, cites poems by A. E.

Crowne have proposed the idea that the poem was passed down from reciter to reciter under the theory of oral-formulaic composition, which hypothesises that epic poems were ( at least to some extent ) improvised by whoever was reciting them.

The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

He attempted to make his poetry more comprehensible by reworking his earlier pieces and starting two lengthy poems on the Russian Revolution of 1905.

As a boy he knew Virgil by heart and composed a number of poems in Italian and Latin.