Preiddeu Annwfn, an early medieval poem found in the Book of Taliesin describes a voyage led by King Arthur to the numerous otherworldy kingdoms within Annwn, either to rescue the prisoner Gweir, or to retrieve the cauldron of the Head of Annwn.

The poem tells us that Aneirin was present at this battle and, having been taken prisoner, was one of only four ( or two ) Brythonic survivors.

* William Cowper's poem, The Colubriad, refers to his queue of flatterers while a prisoner in London

While negotiating a prisoner exchange aboard a British ship, Francis Scott Key saw the flag, and this inspired him to pen the words to the poem that later became the national anthem of the United States.

Mariano Dacanay, who received a copy of the poem while a prisoner in Bilibid ( jail ), published it in the first issue of La Independencia on Sept. 25, 1898 with the title " Ultimo Adios ".

Giovannitti's poem " The Walker ," in which he recounted the tormented footsteps of a prisoner, brought him comparisons to Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde.

for example, the mode of bravery to this anonymous folk poem: `` They brought me news that Spring is in the plains And Ahmad's blood the crimson tulip stains ; ;

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

He is proud of having Segovia for a friend and dedicated a poem to him titled `` The Guitar ''.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

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??

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

`` The hero of his next poem is Napoleon Bonaparte '', said Claire, with slightly overdone carelessness.

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

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.

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.

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.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

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.

Rudyard Kipling's poem, If —, is said to be based on the life of Jameson, and the suffering he endured during the Raid.

* Emily Dickinson's poem " Apparently With No Surprise " depicts God as approving of suffering in the world, relating the tale of a flower " beheaded " by a late frost as the sun " measure off another day for an approving God ".

An English expression with a similar meaning is " Roman holiday ", a metaphor taken from the poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron, where a gladiator in Ancient Rome expects to be " butcher'd to make a Roman holiday " while the audience would take pleasure from watching his suffering.

In 1923 he wrote a poem called " Treponema pallidum " (), which was published under the title " Song of Madness " and gave rise to speculation that he may have been suffering from syphilis, which before 1945 was considered a chronic illness with no proven cure for it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, inspired by the suffering of the Second Italian War of Independence, wrote his poem " Enceladus " in 1859.

In the poem, Purgatory is depicted as a mountain in the Southern Hemisphere, consisting of a bottom section ( Ante-Purgatory ), seven levels of suffering and spiritual growth ( associated with the seven deadly sins ), and finally the Earthly Paradise at the top.

The poem is a meditation on the Catholic belief in Jesus's Real Presence in the sacrament of the Eucharist, and ties it to the Catholic conception of the redemptive meaning of suffering in the life of all believers.

Sackville's first important work was the poem Induction which describes the poet's journey to the infernal regions, where he encounters figures representing forms of suffering and terror.

He was already suffering from terminal illness when wrote his last poem, Üdvözlet a győzőnek ( Greetings to the victorious ).

The title poem recollects a column of men returning from battle: " No one was suffering from a lethal hurt, They were not magnified by noble wounds, There was no splendour in that company.

" Typical of the suffering and of the futility of human endeavour for Migjeni is Rezignata (" Resignation "), a poem in the longest cycle of the collection, Kangët e mjerimit (" Songs of poverty ").

One of the representative works by Wang Can is the Poem of Seven Sorrows ( 七哀诗 ), a five-character poem lamenting the suffering of the people during the years of war.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.

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.

In determining the extent to which any poem is formulaic it is idle, however, to inspect nothing besides lines repeated in their entirety, for a stock of line-fragments would be sufficient to permit the poet to extemporize with deftness if they provided for prosodic needs.

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.

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.

) along with a short poem utilizing the letter of the page for many of the words.

Publication of Caroline Carleton's poem caused an immediate controversy ; that it was nice poetry, but " too tame "; one regretted that nothing more inspiring that the colour of the sky and the prettiness of the scenery could be found for the poem ; one wondered " how hidden wealth could gleam in the darkness " and so on, another that it could equally refer to, say, California, while another longed for a time when such a peaceful song accorded with international politics, and regretted that the contest was restricted to South Australians, that the prize was so paltry, and there was no mention of sheep.

Brown's poetry and prose have been described as characterised by " the absence of frills and decoration ; the lean simplicity of description, colour shape and action reduced to essentials, which heightens the reality of the thing observed. While " his poems became informed by a unique voice that was his alone, controlled and dispassionate, which allowed every word to play its part in the narrative scheme of the unfolding poem ".

#: Shostakovich quotes his setting of the Robert Burns poem " MacPhersen Before His Execution " to colour Yevtushenko's imagery of the spirit of mockery, endlessly murdered and endlessly resurrected, denouncing the vain attempts of tyrants to shackle wit.

Its colour scheme was derived from a 1907 poem by Lillian Crewe Walsh:

In conjunction with the unveiling, there was an exhibition of a series of 34 water colour paintings by Jean Isherwood illustrating the writer's most famous poem, My Country.

This volume-later known as the Yellow Book, after the colour of its aged covers-struck Browning as an excellent basis for a poem, but he was unable to get any further than the basic idea and often offered it as a subject to other writers, notably Alfred Tennyson, upon which to base a poem or novel.

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