It was only after the First World War that the Gilgamesh epic reached a wide audience, and it is only after the Second World War that it begins to feature in a variety of genres.

Although Follett begins his book with Austin Poole's account of the White Ships sinking to set the historical scene for the subsequent events, in many other ways Follett uses the war as a location for a story about essentially modern personalities and issues, a feature reproduced in the epic costume TV adaptation.

Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert to Mogadore, Morocco.

The filming of an epic state-sponsored motion picture based on Marko's memoirs titled Proleće stiže na belom konju ( Spring Comes On A White Horse ) begins above ground.

In 1963 Chahine made Saladin ( original title: El Nasser – defender / deliverer – Salah ed-Dine ), an epic, three-hour film in CinemaScope named after the 12th Century Sultan who, as the film begins, is preparing to liberate Jerusalem from its Christian Crusader occupiers.

As LeChuck's Revenge begins, Guybrush has embarked on an epic new adventure to find the legendary treasure of Big Whoop.

The epic begins with a dedication section, with the poet paying homage to Virgil and Homer.

After an appeal by the poet to Calliope, the Greek muse of epic poetry, Vasco da Gama begins to narrate the History of Portugal.

* The Zybourne Clock epic begins on Wednesday, January 19, 2381.

He identifies the opening lines as corresponding to such an oral tradition: " Was it not fitting, brothers, to begin with the olden words of the heroic tales about the campaign of Igor ..." The narrator begins by referring to oral epic tales that are already old and familiar.

The epic begins with the destruction and difficulties caused by the invasion of the Oirats.

The poem begins with an epic invocation, " Books and the Man I sing, the first who brings / The Smithfield Muses to the Ear of Kings " ( Smithfield being the site of Bartholomew Fair entertainments, and the man in question was Elkanah Settle, who had written for Bartholomew Fair after the Glorious Revolution ; Pope makes him the one who brought pantomime, farce, and monster shows to the royal theaters ).

So begins an epic manhunt through the rapidly flooding castle, with Steerpike forced into ever smaller areas and eventually surrounded by the castle's forces.

The epic begins by narrating Telemachus's difficulties dealing with his mother's suitors and his search for information about his long absent father, events that, temporally, occur nearly at the end of the overall sequence.

A poetry book by Alejandro Carrión named La sangre sobre la tierra is an excursion into epic poetry that begins with the “ Canto a la América Española ”, written to participate in a continent wide poetry competition convened in Mexico: the poem was short listed as the “ Ecuadorian ” selection and lost by one vote to the great Venezuelan poet Manuel Felipe Rugeles.

The sons of wedding guests practise their songs outdoors and one of the boys begins rehearsing Homer's epic song of war.

*" As one epic campaign ends, another begins.

The poem begins in the tone of an epic masterpiece, presenting Shadwell's defining characteristic as dullness, just as every epic hero has a defining characteristic: Odysseus's is cunning ; Achilles's is wrath ; the hero of Spenser's The Faerie Queene is of holiness ; whilst Satan in Paradise Lost has the defining characteristic of pride.

Amores I. 1 begins with the same word as the Aeneid, " Arma " ( an intentional comparison to the epic genre, which Ovid later mocks ), as the poet describes his original intention: to write an epic poem in dactylic hexameter, " with material suiting the meter " ( line 2 ), that is, war.

`` He has married me with a ring of bright water '', begins the Kathleen Raine poem from which Maxwell takes his title, and it is this mystic bond between the human and natural world that the author conveys.

The poem also begins in medias res (" into the middle of affairs ") or simply, " in the middle ", which is a characteristic of the epics of antiquity.

Although the poem begins with Beowulf's arrival, Grendel's attacks have been an ongoing event.

The poem begins with a fanciful description of Kublai Khan's capital Xanadu, which Coleridge places near the river Alph, which passes through caverns before reaching a dark or dead sea.

The poem begins with a prose introduction detailing that Ægir, a figure associated with the sea, is hosting a feast in his hall for a number of the gods and elves.

Loki greets Eldir ( and the poem itself begins ) with a demand that Eldir tell him what the gods are discussing over their ale inside the hall.

Indeed Horace begins the first poem of his Odes ( Odes I. i ) by addressing his new patron.

However, others stress the complex music in some examples as being uncharacteristic of dance melodies and interpret Froissart's poem to mean that the dancing begins with the carol.

The poem begins with comments by Odin ( as Old Norse Óðinn ):

Following the Peterloo massacre of 1819, poet Percy Shelley wrote the political poem The Mask of Anarchy later that year, that begins with the images of what he thought to be the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a new form of social action.

Thoreau had taken up a version of Percy Shelley's principle in the political poem The Mask of Anarchy ( 1819 ), that Shelley begins with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action.

The poem begins with a discussion of the standard rules that govern poetry by which a critic passes judgment.

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The poem begins with him ordering his men to stand and how to hold weapons.

The author, Fernando Pessoa, wrote a poem that begins: " The Tagus is more beautiful than the river that flows through my village ...."

The poem begins with a request for silence among noblemen so that the skald may tell the deeds of Harald Fairhair.

The poem begins with comments by Odin ( as Old Norse Óðinn ):

For instance, in Cummings ' grasshopper poem (" r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r ") the word arriving begins on the far right of the poem with the " a ," the " r " is near the middle of the poem, and the rest of the word is on the left of the poem.

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There are also several fragments surviving of a poem Crates wrote describing the ideal Cynic state which begins by parodying Homer's description of Crete.

Thomas de Quincey's prose poem Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow begins with a discussion of the role of Levana in Roman religion.

The poem begins by using the conventions of the Aisling, or vision poem, in which the poet is out walking when he has a vision of a woman from the other world.