In the poem Fjölsvinnsmál, a stanza mentions Loki ( as Lopt ) in association with runes.

In stanza 8 of the poem Fjölsvinnsmál, Svafrþorinn is stated as the father of Menglöð by an unnamed mother, who the hero Svipdagr seeks.

In the Poetic Edda poem Fjölsvinnsmál, the watchman Fjölsviðr presents a list of the maidens that attend the lady of the keep — Menglöð — that includes Eir, and states that they all sit on the hill Lyfjaberg ( Old Norse " hill of healing " or " healing mountain ").

Stanzas 20 and 24 of the poem Fjölsvinnsmál refer to Yggdrasil as Mímameiðr.

Sinmara is attested solely in the poem Fjölsvinnsmál, where she is described as the keeper of the legendary weapon Lævateinn.

Lotte Motz ( 1975 ) argues that the poem represents the initiation of a young hero into a mother-goddess cult, identifying Svipdagr's mother Gróa with his lover, Menglöð, based primarily on a limited interpretation of the word mögr in Fjölsvinnsmál 47.

In the poem, Fjölsviðr describes to the hero Svipdagr that Sinmara keeps the weapon Lævateinn within a chest, locked with nine strong locks ( due to significant translation differences, two translations of the stanza are provided here ):

Svipdagsmál or The Lay of Svipdagr is an Old Norse poem, a part of the Poetic Edda, comprising two poems, The Spell of Gróa and The Lay of Fjölsviðr.

In the first poem, the young Svipdagr has been compelled to come to Menglöð by his cruel stepmother.

At the beginning of the second poem, Svipdagr arrives at Menglöð's castle, where he is interrogated in a game of riddles by the watchman, from whom he conceals his true name.

Gróa is also a völva, summoned from beyond the grave, in the Old Norse poem Grógaldr, ( a section of Svipdagsmál ), by her son Svipdagr.

In the first poem, Svipdagr enlists the aid of his dead mother, Gróa, a witch, to assist him in the completion of a task set by his cruel stepmother.

Svipdagr conceals it, only revealing it later in the poem.

* Leonard Cohen's poem " Prayer for Sunset " compares the setting sun to the raving Absalom, and asks whether another Joab will arrive tomorrow night to kill Absalom again.

His poem, " The Aspirant ," continues his theme of poverty and ambition, as a young man in a shabby furnished room describes his own and the other tenants ' dreams, and asks " why?

In his poem Praise O ' Do ' set, the Dorset poet William Barnes asks,

The god Njörðr asks Freyr's servant Skírnir to talk to Freyr, and in the first stanza of the poem, Skaði also tells Skírnir to ask Freyr why he is so upset.

The poem that Fred asks Laura to assist him with is by John Keats: " When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be ".

The poem Prif Gyuarch Taliessin asks " Lleu and Gwydion / Will they perform magics?

The poem Prif Gyuarch Taliessin asks " Lleu and Gwydion / Will they perform magics?

In stanza 24 of the poem Vafþrúðnismál, the god Odin ( disguised as " Gagnráðr ") asks the jötunn Vafþrúðnir from where the day comes, and the night and its tides.

In stanza 30 of the poem Alvíssmál, the god Thor asks the dwarf Alvíss to tell him what night is called in each of the nine worlds, whom " Nórr " birthed.

* Paralleling the stepmother's question of her magic mirror, the Indian epic poem Padmavat ( 1540 ) includes the line: " Who is more beautiful, I or Padmavati ?, Queen Nagamati asks to her new parrot, and it gives a displeasing reply ...";

It is objected that in the 79th letter of Seneca, which is the chief authority on the question, he apparently asks that Lucilius should introduce the hackneyed theme of Aetna merely as an episode in his contemplated poem, not make it the subject of separate treatment.

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?

In Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven ," the speaker asks the spectral bird: " Is there balm in Gilead?

The poem runs through a list of legendary figures, asks what happened to them, and then responds with a refrain of " Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg!

The letter is long, extremely well written and begins with a long poem praising the Marinids, followed by a prose where he laments his defeat and asks forgiveness for past wrongdoings of his forefathers against the Marinids.

In his poem " The Waggoner ", Wordsworth asks " Who does not know the famous Swan?

A possible reference to the horse is made in the 13th-century romance Guillaume de Dole, in which the titular character asks for " the Count of Perche's horse " to be made ready, possibly indicating the "' great horse ,' which could accommodate an armored knight " and was bred in the geographical setting of the poem.

His poem " Kula Kula Kula vendu hodedhada dhiri " asks humans not to segregate themselves from one another, because every human is born the same way, everyone eats the same food and drinks the same water, hence none is superior or inferior to one another.

Hellinger created controversy in writing a poem dedicated to Adolf Hitler which asks the reader to identify something of themselves in Hitler and to respect that part of themselves.

In the opening of the Achilleid, Statius asks that his poem not stop with the death of Hector ( nec in Hectore tracto sistere 1. 6 ) as the Iliad does but that it continue through the whole Trojan cycle, invoking these two important models.

Finding out she is a poet, Baxter asks her to recite a poem.

The poem alternates between humility and a self-confident manner ; Catullus calls his poetry " little " and " trifles ", but asks that it remain for more than one age.

" Jack then asks, or commands, Alice to recite the poem forwards, backwards, and in French.

In Steven Soderbergh's 2002 film Solaris, the male protagonist tries to impress his girlfriend with his knowledge of poet Dylan Thomas, but when she asks him for his favorite poem he comes up with " the one he is most famous for, which starts, um, ' There once was a young man from Nantucket '".

* 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.

" In reference to the poem Clarel, poetry critic Helen Vendler remarked: " What it cost Melville to write this poem makes us pause, reading it.

" Jabberwocky " is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

'" What sets apart the poem from the others is its " verbal enactment of the creative process " which makes it " unique even among the three poems of high imagination.

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

Black poet William Waring Cuney later highlighted the black reaction to the fight in his poem " My Lord, What a Morning.

What was completed of this poem was composed between 94-95 CE based on Silvae 4. 7. 21ff.

Manawydan is mentioned in the poem known as " Pa gur yv y porthaur " (" What Man is the Gatekeeper?

* American poet Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about Vallejo in his book What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

What Women Want ( poem ) D. J O ' Brien ( Australia )

For Judy, however, it was not a problem, and with the aid of Robert Frost's poem " What Fifty Said ," she convinced him to proceed with their relationship.

He is mentioned in the 10th century Arthurian poem Pa gur yv y porthaur (" What man is the gatekeeper?

Fearful Symmetry is a phrase from William Blake's poem The Tyger ( Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?).

What is most interesting about the poem, however, is not the fact that it depicts the city with photographic accuracy, but that it acts as a guide to the upper, and upper-middle class walkers of society.

This attribution goes against scholarly consensus, and in particular studies by Kenneth Muir, Eliot Slater and MacDonald P. Jackson, but is based on both a detailed demonstration of the non-Shakespearean nature of the poem and a list of numerous verbal parallels — such as ' What brest so cold that is not warmed heare ' and ' What heart's so cold that is not set on fire '— between the Complaint and the known works of Davies.

What the poem signifies is questionable ; many critics argue that it deliberately transcends traditional form and therefore its meaning is solely found in its technique as opposed to in its content.

Davies is best known for his poem Leisure ; " What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare ".

Jabberwocky, a poem ( of nonsense verse ) found in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll ( 1871 ), is a nonsense poem written in the English language.

A Hermit Thrush appears in the fifth section (" What the Thunder Said ") of the T. S. Eliot poem The Waste Land.

After urging the reader to " Utter distinctly each consonant: terrible, thunders, brave, distant, progress, trust, mangled, burning, bright ," it introduces and presents the poem, following it with a set of questions: " What is this story about?

Andrew Bennet, in 1994, discussed the poem's effectiveness: " What is important and compelling in this poem is not so much what happens on the urn or in the poem, but the way that a response to an artwork both figures and prefigures its own critical response ".