Arjuna Das, a contemporary to Sarala Dasa, wrote Rama-Bibha, a significant long poem in Oriya.

Rama-bibaha, written by Arjuna Dasa, was the first long poem written in the Oriya language.

* In A. J. Cronin's novel, A Pocketful of Rye, the protagonist Carroll reads the poem as a young man, forgets it, and suffers from a recurring nightmare that finally leads to his conversion.

He is the protagonist of the 15th-century epic poem The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by Blind Harry.

* March 25 ( Good friday ) – The date of Dante's journey as the protagonist in his own epic poem, The Divine Comedy.

As the protagonist of the poem, Aeneas seems to constantly waver between his emotions and commitment to his prophetic duty to found Rome ; critics note the breakdown of Aeneas ' emotional control in the last sections of the poem where the " pious " and " righteous " Aeneas mercilessly slaughters Turnus.

* Elektra ( Laodice ) is the unnamed protagonist and speaker in Yannis Ritsos's long poem Beneath the Shadow of the Mountain.

The poem narrates this as the homeland of the protagonist Florante's mother, Princess Floresca.

( This may have been Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem Lord of the Isles, in which the protagonist is named Ronald.

Arthur's main protagonist in the fight is Bedwyr, later known as Sir Bedivere, and an earlier reference in the poem indicates that the euhemerized god Manawydan is involved as well.

The prophetic words of his Jewish protagonist against the backdrop of the Statue of Liberty allude to Emma Lazarus's famous poem The New Colossus ( 1883 ), which celebrated the statue as a symbol of the United States ' democracy and its identity as an immigrant nation.

* In Dodie Smith's novel, I Capture the Castle ( 1940 ), the book's protagonist remarks that Debussy's Clair de Lune reminds her of " Dover Beach " ( in the film adaptation of the novel, the character quotes ( or, rather, misquotes ) a line from the poem ).

The poem moves from a sentimental and romantic evocation of rural life to a brutal work of protest against military conscription and garrison life at the border forts ; then it becomes an extended outlaw ballad of the life of a violent knife-fighting gaucho matrero ; then it becomes a story of captivity among the Indians, followed finally by bringing its protagonist face-to-face with a series of human echoes of his past.

Thompson found close parallels in plot between the poem and its sources, with the major exception that Longfellow took legends told about multiple characters and substituted the character " Hiawatha " as the protagonist of them all.

* Poem LXII, in Dorothy L. Sayers, Detective Novel, from 1929, " Strong Poison ", the title and King Mithridates VI of Pontus, from the poem, are referred to by the protagonist Lord Peter Wimsey.

A fictional example can be found in George Orwell's novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying, in which the protagonist Gordon Comstock struggles in vain to complete an epic poem describing a day in London: " It was too big for him, that was the truth.

Propertius is the lyrical protagonist of Joseph Brodsky's poem " Anno Domini " ( 1968 ), originally written in Russian.

The contents have varied from a modernist interpretation of ancient Sanskrit literature protagonist Radha in the poem " Sri Radha " to the ever-present and enthralling death-consciousness espoused in " Saptama Ritu " ( The Seventh Season ).

Caupolicán, the Indian warrior and chieftain who is the protagonist of Ercilla ’ s poem, has a panoply of Classical heroes behind him.

* Rudolph Reed, the protagonist of Gwendolyn Brooks ' poem " The Ballad of Rudolph Reed ", published in Selected Poems ( 1963 )

Towards the end of the poem, the protagonist seems quite anxious over whether or not she will bring her houseplant inside her house for the winter period " How am I going to carry you in, when it gets cold?

Overall throughout the poem, the thoughts of the protagonist become solemn and she seems to be more anxious as she has to sort out her dilemma.

The status of the poem as a lament spoken by a female protagonist is therefore fairly well established in criticism.

Similarities between the language and circumstances of the male protagonist of The Wanderer, for example, and the protagonist of the Wife's Lament have led other critics to argue, even more radically, that the protagonist of the poem ( to which the attribution of the title " the wife's lament " is wholly apocryphal and fairly recent ) may in fact be male.

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.

One surviving poem, written earlier while Choe was heading to his first official post in China (" ten years of dust " being his ten years spent in preparing for the exam ), gave vent to his emotions regarding the native land and family he had not seen in a decade:

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.