As well as a poet, Pfeijffer was for some time a Greek scholar on the staff of Leiden University.

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer ( born January 17, 1968, Rijswijk ), Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classical scholar, was born in Rijswijk, Netherlands, and having studied, lived and worked in Leiden, he moved permanently to Genoa, Italy, in 2008.

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer made his début in 1998 with a collection entitled Of the Square Man, containing of fifty-odd highly individualistic poems.

Thus Pfeijffer, the " gleaner of contrivances ," quotes not only Pindar and Ezra Pound, Horace and Lucebert, Sophocles, Derek Walcott, Herman Gorter, Hans Faverey, Martinus Nijhoff and Gerard Reve, but comic book characters as well.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".

Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.

* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.

Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

Later important examples of the poetic form included Rudyard Kipling ’ s ‘ Barrack Room Ballads ’ ( 1892-6 ) and Oscar Wilde ’ s ‘ Ballad of Reading Gaol ’ ( 1897 ).

As can readily be seen with the context restored, Barkstead compares his poem about Venus and Adonis (“ my Muse ”) with Shakespeare ’ s, saying that his poetry sung " the withered tree " while Shakespeare ’ s " sung the fair blossom ", and that Shakespeare deserves laurel, the emblem of victory or poetic superiority, but that Barkstead, the lesser poet, deserves only cypress in comparison.

His focus was to faithfully convey, with less poetic license, Khayyam ’ s original religious, mystical, and historic Persian themes, through the verses as well as his extensive annotations.

The already symbolic and poetic nature of Miró ’ s work, as well as the dualities and contradictions inherent to it, fit well within the context of dream-like automatism espoused by the group.

She said " the impression has arisen that already-successful titles are automatically sidelined in favor of books that the judges feel deserve an extra boost of attention .. the nominated books exhibit qualities — a poetic prose style, elliptical or fragmented storytelling — that either don ’ t matter much to nonprofessional readers, or even put them off.

Seydor ’ s movie is also a poetic flight on the myriad possibilities of movie directing.

In chapter 3 Skáldskaparmál, poetic ways of referring to poetry are provided, including " Kvasir ’ s blood ".

In contrast, Rod McKuen ’ s English translation replaces that vivid and poetic imagery with " But if you stay / I'll make you a day / Like no day has been / or will be again.

Shklovsky invented the term as a means to “ distinguish poetic from practical language on the basis of the former ’ s perceptibility ” ( Crawford 209 ).

In studying poetic speech in its phonetic and lexical structure as well as in its characteristic distribution of words and in the characteristic thought structures compounded from the words, we find everywhere the artistic trademark – that is, we find material obviously created to remove the automatism of perception ; the author ’ s purpose is to create the vision which results from that deautomatized perception.

*" The Literary Ethnographer " – Representation is a balancing act of determining what to " show " through poetic / prosaic language and style versus what to " tell " via straightforward, ‘ factual ’ reporting.

It has been credited as “ representing the core of Whitman ’ s poetic vision .”

Mallika Sarabhai, one of the nation ’ s most intelligent dance professionals, was successful in producing this piece that is innovative, yet flows into the inherent poetic structures of Bhajan with ease.

" The power of emotion to transform one ’ s perspective on the world ," a recent Open Letters Monthly review of the novel writes, " is the theme of this wildly poetic novel.

Some have seen it as thin in substance, uncontrolled in method, too sweet in color and too “ poetic .” But it has been far more apt to garner admirers like the critic Barbara Rose, who wrote in 1972 of Ms. Frankenthaler ’ s gift for “ the freedom, spontaneity, openness and complexity of an image, not exclusively of the studio or the mind, but explicitly and intimately tied to nature and human emotions.

Simple words, entangled with highly elaborated intellectual comprehensions-another benefit of Kramberger's poetic language, in Taja Kramberger ’ s poems change themselves into » multilayered compositions « and subtle messages.

Jad Hatem, a French poet himself and a professor of philosophy and literature: fr: Jad Hatem, in an original way also noticed that a privileged topos in Taja Krambeger ’ s poetry is her outstanding ability of a simultaneous theoretic reflection, inscribed along with the poetic thought of her poems ( La Poésie slovène contemporaine: l ’ écriture de la pierre, 2010 ).

From a very different angle Slovenian poet Iztok Osojnik sees this rare privilege, that is the poet ’ s critical ability to transform ideologically contaminated and narrow representations of reality in a poetic way into more bearable representations of reality, which bring us much closer to the core of events, as a tool of the political poetry in its best and noble sense ( Apokalipsa, no.

He views “ Africadian ” literature as “ literal and liberal — I canonize songs and sonnets, histories and homilies .” Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his “ individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary ” came from the ‘ Gang of Seven ’ intellectuals, “ poet-politicos: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, troubadour-bard Bob Dylan, libertine lyricist Irving Layton, guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong, reactionary modernist Ezra Pound, Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau .” Though flawed, Clarke found “ as a whole, the group ’ s blunt talk, suave styles, acerbic independence, raunchy macho, feisty lyricism, singing heroic and a scarf-and-beret chivalry quite, well, liberating .”