" The adversary " occurs in the framing story alone — he is never clearly alluded to in the central poem.

However, Abaddon and Sheol are mentioned throughout the central poem.

Job does speak of an adversary on several occasions within the central poem, but it is doubtful that he is referring to " the Adversary " of the prose prologue.

Scholars agree that the introductory and concluding sections of the book, the framing devices, were composed to set the central poem into a prose " folk-book ", as the compilers of the Jewish Encyclopedia expressed it.

The central poem is from another source.

Various interpolations have been made in the text of the central poem.

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

The scholar of Religious Studies Graham Harvey noted that a poem known as the Charge of the Goddess remains central to the liturgy of most Wiccan groups.

His first known works were written when he was seventeen, and included a poem — heavily influenced by Percy Bysshe Shelley — that describes a magician who set up a throne in central Asia.

However, Memmius ' name is central to several critical verses in the poem, and this theory has therefore been largely discredited.

In the United States, Virgil and specifically the Aeneid were taught in the fourth year of a Latin sequence, at least until the 1960s ; the current ( 2011 ) Advanced Placement curriculum in Latin continues to assign a central position to the poem: " The AP Latin: Virgil Exam is designed to test the student's ability to read, translate, understand, analyze, and interpret the lines of the Aeneid that appear on the course syllabus in Latin.

Holst himself adapted the melody of the central section of Jupiter in 1921 to fit the metre of a poem beginning " I vow to thee, my country ".

Apollinaire was to use Rosamond as the central character in his poem Rosemonde, taken from the 1913 collection ' Alcools '

The latter criticism probably suggested to Arnold the idea of attempting a second narrative poem of which the central figure should be Jesus, the founder of Christianity, as the founder of Buddhism had been that of the first.

He experimented with a syntactic subversion of meaning called ( parataxis ) in the poem " Dream Record: June 8, 1955 " about the death of Joan Vollmer, a technique that would become central in " Howl.

Although the earliest recorded evidence comes from a Welsh poem written by Gryffydd ap Adda ap Dafydd in the mid-14th century, in which he described how people used a tall birch pole at Llanidloes, central Wales.

During the 19th century, one of Brazil's greatest poets, the Bahian abolitionist poet and playwright Castro Alves, a native of the recôncavo city of Cachoeira, penned his most famous poem, Navio negreiro, about slavery ; the poem is considered a masterpiece of Brazilian Romanticism and a central anti-slavery text.

For example, in Song of Myself, the long, central poem in Leaves of Grass, Whitman writes: " These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me ..."

The same critic notes that " the poem upends our expectations of metaphor " and sees in this the central power of the poem.

The river Alph, running " Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea " is central to the poem Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

The motif of sight and vision is as central to the poem as it is to modernism ; the omni-present character Tiresias acting as a unifying theme.

The ideas of discipline and justice, although not enacted here, correspond to the central message in what some refer to as the Book of Woes ( 5: 1 to 6: 14 ).

The Book of Revelation, often simply known as Revelation or by a number of variants expanding upon its authorship or subject matter, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central part in Christian eschatology.

The following approaches arose from the study of Christianity ’ s most central eschatological document, the Book of Revelation, but the principles embodied in them can be applied to all prophecy in the Bible.

Isaiah, Daniel, Matthew 24, The Sheep and the Goats, and the Book of Revelation, but Revelation often occupies a central place in Christian eschatology.

Ezekiel (;, Y ' ḥez ' qel, ), Arabic :< font size = 2 > حزقيال </ font > Hazqiyal, ' God will strengthen ' ( from, ḥazaq,, literally ' to fasten upon ,' figuratively ' strong ,' and, el,, literally ' God ', and so figuratively ' The Almighty ') is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible.

He is the central character in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

Jonah is also the central character in the Book of Jonah.

Herodotus ' description of the Egyptian Labyrinth, in Book II of The Histories, inspired some central scenes in Bolesław Prus ' 1895 historical novel, Pharaoh.

What Bright termed " mutually accessible centers " ( The Great Maze Book, 1973 ) also called " braid " mazes, allowed a proliferation of paths flowing in spiral patterns from a central nexus and, rather than relying on " dead ends " to hinder progress, instead relied on an overabundance of pathway choices.

Tolkien, by science fiction writers like Philip K. Dick, by central figures of Western literature like Leo Tolstoy, Virgil and The Brontë sisters, and including feminist writers like Virginia Woolf, by children's literature like Alice in Wonderland, The Wind in the Willows and The Jungle Book, by Norse mythology, and by books from the Eastern tradition such as the Tao Te Ching.

** Aleister Crowley begins writing Liber Al vel Legis, better known as The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema.

The Gospel Book of Queen Richeza ( today is in possession of the Hessische Landes-und Darmstadt University ), comes from St. Maria ad Gradus, where Richeza ( due to large donations of land ) had a reserved space in the central nave occupied, normally occupied by the Donors.

* Job ( biblical figure ), the central character in the Book of Job

Drawing accompanying text in Book XII of the 16th-century Florentine Codex ( compiled 1540 – 1585 ), showing Nahua people | Nahua of conquest-era central Mexico suffering from smallpox.

The central thesis of the Orange Book follows from the work done by Dave Bell and Len LaPadula for a set of protection mechanisms.

No central government existed, and in times of crisis the people were led by ad hoc leaders known as Judges ( see the Book of Judges ).

No central government existed, and in times of crisis the people were led by ad hoc leaders known as Judges ( see the Book of Judges ).

The central portal is a more conventional representation of the End of Time as described in the Book of Revelation.

" Shaun's sudden and somewhat unexpected promotion to the book's central character in Book III is explained by Tindall with the assertion that " having disposed of old HCE, Shaun is becoming the new HCE.

The New York Times credits bookstore owner Andreas Brown and his store, the Gotham Book Mart, with launching Gorey's career: " it became the central clearing house for Mr. Gorey, presenting exhibitions of his work in the store's gallery and eventually turning him into an international celebrity.

An episode of the television series First Wave featured a Wiccan with a Book of Shadows that contained the secret to identifying the alien infiltrators which were the central antagonistic force of the show.

A central flower garden in Zoar is based on the Book of Revelation with a towering tree in the middle representing Christ and other elements surrounding it representing other allegorical elements.