American poet laureate Robert Frost describes a pointless rock wall as a metaphor for the myopia of the culture-bound in his poem Mending Wall.

The poem De profundis in Leiden, Netherlands, the last of a set of 101 Wall poems in Leiden to be painted.

Other writers who have made use of the theme include Donald Barthelme ( in his novel Snow White ), Gregory Maguire ( in his novel Mirror Mirror ), Jane Yolen ( in her story " Snow in Summer ," published in Black Swan, White Raven ), Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald ( in their story " The Queen's Mirror ," published in A Wizard's Dozen ), Anne Sexton ( in her poem " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ," published in Transformations ), Gail Carson Levine ( in Fairest ), and A. S. Byatt ( in her essay " Ice, Snow, Glass ," published in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ).

The first chapbook, written by Gaiman, comprised " Wall: A Prologue " short story, " Septimus ' Triolet " poem, " Song Of The Little Hairy Man ", and " The Old Warlock's Reverie: A Pantoum " poem.

Their new name, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, came from a poem by Amiri Baraka.

* Wall poem by Ady Endre in Székesfehérvár, Hungary

While the poem itself is signed Larry Wall, the original message was posted with forged message headers, causing uncertainty of authorship.

A poem by Joan Ure was suggested by members of the public as one of the runners-up for the Scottish Parliament's Canongate Wall Project to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Holyrood Parliament:

On the wall below the building is a poem in the Buginese language, one of the Wall poems in Leiden.

Within a year of the battle an anonymous poet had celebrated it and the king, for both his prowess and piety, in the Old High German short poem Ludwigslied.

Within the fictional storyline, the Hyperion Cantos is an epic poem written by the character Martin Silenus.

Within the poem, autumn represents growth, maturation, and finally an approaching death.

Within the cathedral there is a medieval tomb of a knight and his wife, the inspiration of the poem " An Arundel Tomb ", by Philip Larkin.

The poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled " A Dream Within a Dream " is featured in the novel.

Within English it could be used to complete a reading comprehension exercise, or to write you own poem about what George ’ s ( or you own ) medicine would contain, or to change the ending of the chapter and create your own idea of how the medicine effected Grandma.

" Dream Within A Dream " has the lyrics of the poem " A Dream Within A Dream " by Edgar Allan Poe.

Within the traditions of renga and renku, the hokku, as the opening verse of the poem, has always held a special position.

It is based on the poem of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe, " A Dream Within A Dream.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare's poem.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

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.

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.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

The Franck symphonic poem, `` Psyche '', is a lush, sweet-sounding affair that was pleasant to encounter once again.

Later legends ( beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD ) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel.

The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

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.

At that time, the poem was titled America for publication.

Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

The poem was initially published two years later in The Congregationalist, to commemorate the Fourth of July.

Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward too was inspired to compose his tune.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.

Rousseau's conception of alpine purity was later emphasized with the publication of Albrecht von Haller's poem Die Alpen that described the mountains as an area of mythical purity.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim was one of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned in stanza 2 of the eddic poem Völuspá.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

`` Would you first read the poem aloud to me and then let me read it to myself ''??

He also read Lewis Carroll's poem " Jabberwocky " in a heavy Cuban accent ( he pronounced it " Habberwocky ").

T. S. Eliot said: " It is difficult for us to read that essay without reflecting that if Poe plotted out his poem with such calculation, he might have taken a little more pains over it: the result hardly does credit to the method.

The opening lines of the poem read: ' Bring torch for Cabbalah brand new treatise, / Numerology also makes much sense, / O Astraea!

Many scholars believe that the original poem was composed in an oral tradition by an aoidos ( epic poet / singer ), perhaps a rhapsode ( professional performer ), and was more likely intended to be heard than read.

Postmodernism goes beyond modernism's emphasis on the creative role of the poet, to emphasize the role of the reader of a text ( Hermeneutics ), and to highlight the complex cultural web within which a poem is read.

However, it is also possible to read the poem as an allegory on the way fate moves human affairs or as an attempt to comprehend the horrific violence in Europe at the time of the poem's composition.

She read a free verse poem calling for peace in the world.

In the United States, Virgil and specifically the Aeneid were taught in the fourth year of a Latin sequence, at least until the 1960s ; the current ( 2011 ) Advanced Placement curriculum in Latin continues to assign a central position to the poem: " The AP Latin: Virgil Exam is designed to test the student's ability to read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret the lines of the Aeneid that appear on the course syllabus in Latin.

Wagner first read Wolfram von Eschenbach's poem Parzival while taking the waters at Marienbad in 1845.

One evening in September of that year, Wagner read the finished poem of " Tristan " to an audience including his wife, Minna, his current muse, Mathilde, and his future mistress ( and later wife ), Cosima von Bülow.

In April 2010, however, the show also become a subject of political controversy, when Hissa Hilal, a 43-year-old female Saudi competitor, read out a poem criticizing her country's Muslim clerics.

Upon its release, the poem was criticised for being obscure and difficult to read.

Although the poem is often read as a Christian allegory, Jerome McGann argues that it is really a story of our salvation of Christ, rather than the other way round.

Yet, she wrote to him in a poem, " You have neither read my book, nor won my love.

He has read the poem to both Catholic and Protestant audiences in Ireland.

This custom originated in the 18th or 19th century, after a newspaper published a poem narrating a dream of a cemetery in the future, " and all of us were dead ", proceeding to " read " the tombstones.

However, after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D. C. and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, the Poet Laureate then in office, Billy Collins, was asked to write a poem to be read in front of a special joint session of Congress.

The name " Stuckism " was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish.

Buck wrote a poem named For America that he read at the first Cardinals game after the 9 / 11 attacks to describe his opinion and the general opinion, regarding defeating terrorism, of Americans after September 11.

He attended the theater and Harvard reunions, read the literary magazines, and wrote a poem at Longfellow's death in 1892.

While he was recovering, Mantle made peace with his estranged wife, Merlyn, and repeated a request he made decades before for Bobby Richardson to read a poem at Mantle's funeral if he died.