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??

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

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.

A poem by Dylan Thomas, a saxophone solo by Charles Parker, a painting by Jackson Pollock -- these are pure confabulations as ends in themselves.

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.

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He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).

In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall ( Heorot ) has been under attack by a being known as Grendel.

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 poem was originally published anonymously ( under the pen name " Phin ", based on Thayer's college nickname, " Phineas ").

* In the film What Women Want ( 2000 ), Mel Gibson's character tries to block out his daughter's thoughts by muttering the poem under his breath.

Prior to this event, the technique had been published in an issue of 391 in the poem by Tzara, dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love under the sub-title, TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM

In 1856, Carroll published the following poem anonymously under the name Upon the Lonely Moor.

The Euthiones are mentioned in a poem by Venantius Fortunatus ( 583 ) as being under the suzerainty of Chilperic I of the Franks.

When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.

In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that, among many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a " grove of hot springs ".

* In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem " The Lady of Shalott " ( 1833, revised in 1842 ), the titular character possesses a mirror that enables her to look out on the people of Camelot, as she is under a curse that prevents her from seeing Camelot directly.

However, unlike the cited examples, a number of Oxford's poems did appear in printed miscellanies in his lifetime, and the first poem published under Oxford's name was printed in 1572, 17 years before Puttenham's book was published.

In stanza 35 of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, a Völva tells Odin that, amongst many other things, she sees Sigyn sitting very unhappily with her bound husband, Loki, under a " grove of hot springs ".

A poem " The little boys and the seasons ", written during this time, was published in Granta, under the pseudonym Daniel Hearing.

After reciting the long poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter ", the Tweedles draw Alice's attention to the Red King — loudly snoring away under a nearby tree — and maliciously provoke her with idle philosophical banter that she exists only as an imaginary figure in the Red King's dreams ( thereby implying that she will cease to exist the instant he wakes up ).

In the second stanza of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, the völva ( a shamanic seeress ) reciting the poem to the god Odin says that she remembers far back to " early times ", being raised by jötnar, recalls nine worlds and " nine wood-ogresses " ( Old Norse nío ídiðiur ), and when Yggdrasil was a seed (" glorious tree of good measure, under the ground ").

He published a collection of poems ( Spirits in Bondage ) and a narrative poem ( Dymer ) under the pen name " Clive Hamilton ", to avoid harming his reputation as a don at Oxford University.

In 1929, Robert E. Howard ( under the pseudonym " Patrick Howard ") published a poem, " Skulls and Dust ", about Cambyses's death.

* The name Caractacus appears under a poem in The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe.

The poem itself implies that the writer lived under Augustus or Tiberius, and that he was a citizen of and resident in Rome.

He may have studied counterpoint under Ockeghem, whom he greatly admired throughout his life: this is suggested both by the testimony of Gioseffo Zarlino and Lodovico Zacconi, writing later in the 16th century, and by Josquin's eloquent lament on the death of Ockeghem in 1497, Nymphes des bois / Requiem aeternam, based on the poem by Jean Molinet.

Between 1935 and 1940 Akhmatova composed, worked and reworked the long poem Requiem in secret, a lyrical cycle of lamentation and witness, depicting the suffering of the common people under Soviet terror.

Many older illustrations ( above ) show the statue with one foot on either side of the harbor mouth with ships passing under it: "... the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land ..." (" The New Colossus ", a poem engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty in 1903 ).

He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.

The title of Schiller's poem < em lang =" de ">" An die Freude "</ em > is literally translated as " To Joy ", but is normally called the " Ode to Joy ".

Cuthbert's letter on Bede's death, the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae, moreover, commonly is understood to indicate that Bede also composed a five line vernacular poem known to modern scholars as Bede ’ s Death Song

The castle is mentioned for the first time in Chrétien de Troyes ' poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, dating to the 1170s, though it does not appear in all the manuscripts.

De Pizan specifically objected to the use of vulgar terms in Jean de Meun ’ s allegorical poem.

After completing this particular poem, it seems that de Pizan, at the age 65, decided to end her literary career.

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a long book devoted to language and translation, especially poetry translation, and one of its leitmotifs is a set of some 88 translations of " Ma Mignonne ", a highly constrained poem by 16th-century French poet Clément Marot.

Béroalde de Verville laid the foundation for his encyclopaedic works in a hexameral poem entitled Les cognoissances nécessaires for example.

He was the subject of the oldest extant Spanish epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid.

Perceval, although unfinished, was particularly popular: four separate continuations of the poem appeared over the next half century, with the notion of the Grail and its quest being developed by other writers such as Robert de Boron, a fact that helped accelerate the decline of Arthur in continental romance.

If Coleridge's dream did originate ideas within the poem, then the dreams are related to those experienced by contemporary opium eaters and writers, Thomas de Quincey and Charles Pierre Baudelaire.

* Widely attributed to Lactantius although it shows no overt sign of Christianity, the poem The Phoenix ( de Ave Phoenice ) tells the story of the death and rebirth of that mythical bird.

Ronsard wrote a poem on La Défloration de Lède, perhaps inspired by the Michelangelo, which he may well have known.

Colonial Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz also mentions " Lucrecia " in her poem Redondillas, a commentary on prostitution and who is to blame.

The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.

Merlin reciting his poem s, as illustrated in the French book from the 13th century " Merlin ", by Robert de Boron.

Several decades later, the poet Robert de Boron retold this material in his poem Merlin.

Robert's poem was rewritten in prose in the 12th century as the Estoire de Merlin, also called the Vulgate or Prose Merlin.

Other famous pieces include the Boecis, a 258-line-long poem written entirely in the Limousin dialect of Occitan between the year 1000 and 1030 and inspired by Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy ; the Waldensian La Nobla Leyczon ( dated 1100 ), la Cançó de Santa Fe ( ca 1054 – 1076 ), the Romance of Flamenca ( 13th c .), the Song of the Albigensian Crusade ( 1213 – 1219?

Scholars point to a poem written circa 1620 by a student at Oxford, William Basse, that mentioned the author Shakespeare died in 1616, which is the year Shakespeare deceased and not Edward de Vere.

As early as 1576, Edward de Vere was writing about this subject in his poem Loss of Good Name, which Professor Steven W. May described as " a defiant lyric without precedent in English Renaissance verse.

Other notables examples include the Roman de la Rose, a 13th-century French poem, William Langland's Piers Ploughman in the 14th century, and Jean de la Fontaine's Fables ( influenced by Aesop's ) in the 17th century.

Rumour has long circulated that he named his company after the French epic poem La Chanson de Roland.