Schaefer ’ s concept of " vocality " offers neither a compromise nor a synthesis of the views which see the poem as on the one hand Germanic, pagan, and oral and on the other Latin-derived, Christian, and literate, but, as stated by Monika Otter: "... a ' tertium quid ', a modality that participates in both oral and literate culture yet also has a logic and aesthetic of its own.

The smith hero Völundr is identified as ' Ruler of Elves ' ( vísi álfa ) and ' One among the Elven Folk ' ( álfa ljóði ), in the poem Völundarkviða, whose later prose introduction also identifies him as the son of a king of ' Finnar ', an Arctic people respected for their shamanic magic ( most likely, the sami ).

* In Michael Longley's poem ' Ceasefire ', Priam's petition to Achilles for the return of Hector's body is used as an analogue for the necessity for opposing sides to make conciliatory gestures, however difficult, to bring about peace in Northern Ireland.

By the end of 1919 he'd become famous, after his first one-man exhibition at Der Sturm gallery, June 1919, and the publication that August of the poem An Anna Blume ( usually translated as ' To Anna Flower ', or ' To Eve Blossom '), a dadaist non-sensical love poem.

" Following in the June 1816 Eclectic Review, Josiah Conder dismissed the poem: " As to ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Pains of Sleep ', we can only regret the publication of them, as affording a proof that the Author over-rates the importance of his name.

" The review then concluded, " His ' psychological curiosity ', as he terms it, depends in no slight degree on the establishment of the previous fact which we have mentioned: but the poem itself is below criticism.

When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.

" Another emphasis on the musicality of the poem came in August 1834, with Henry Nelson Coleridge analysis in the Quarterly Review: " In some of the smaller pieces, as the conclusion of the ' Kubla Khan ', for example, not only the lines by themselves are musical, but the whole passage sounds all at once as an outburst or crash of harps in the still air of autumn.

Yet, though generally speaking intentions in poetry are nothing save as ' realized ', we are unable to ignore the poem, despite Mr Eliot's strictures on its ' exaggerated repute '.

If we restrict ourselves to what is ' given ', appealing to the poem as a ' whole ', we shall fail probably to resolves its various cruxes.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

A. E. Housman refers to the ' Greek Lad ', Narcissus, in his poem Look not in my Eyes from A Shropshire Lad set to music by several English composers including George Butterworth.

* BBC documentary tour of locations thought to be found in the poem ... Holywell, the River Mersey, the ' Wild Wirral ', the Peak District, the Roaches, and Lud Chapel

* Carla Bruni sings the poem ' If You Were Coming In The Fall ', by Emily Dickinson on her album No Promises.

The play opens on 10 April 1809, in a garden front room of a country house in Derbyshire with tutor Septimus Hodge trying to distract his 13 year-old pupil Thomasina from her enquiries as to the meaning of a " carnal embrace " by challenging her to prove Fermat's Last Theorem so he can focus on reading the poem ' The Couch of Eros ', a piece written by another character, Mr. Ezra Chater.

He described James as possessing an ' eagerness ' in ' literary composition and writing ', the best known of which is his love poem, The Kingis Quair.

Then the " opposite ", or ' echo ', of the first stanza, in whatever sense is appropriate to the poem, is composed in the right-hand column of the page.

In Brief Lives, she persuades a man to give the dancer Tiffany money, when Tiffany would later be the only mortal to survive the explosion of the building in which she was dancing ; in The Kindly Ones, she knows full well that her brother is in trouble and unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to help her find Barnabas ; also, when read the quote ' Quoth the Raven ', from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, " The Raven ", she says ' Whatever ', which, down to the pronounced ' ev ' had been and would be said by Matthew the Raven throughout the book.

A project of Marks ', named by him " Operation Gift-Horse ", was a deception scheme aimed to disguise the more secure WOK code traffic as poem code traffic, so that German cryptographers would think " Gift-Horsed " messages were easier to break than they actually were.

In his poem ' An Acrostic ', Edgar Allan Poe makes references to her although he allegedly purposely misspells her name and instead writes ' Zantippe '.

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.

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.

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.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

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.

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.

In the poem we recognize and acknowledge one man's sense of the world ; ;

There are also autobiographical sections in Alcuin's poem on York and in the Vita Alcuini, a Life written for him at Ferrières in the 820s, possibly based in part on the memories of Sigwulf, one of Alcuin's pupils.

Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim was one of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned in stanza 2 of the eddic poem Völuspá.

The poem is known to us only through one Vatican manuscript, and long escaped the notice of historians.

Anne expressed her grief for his death in her poem " I will not mourn thee, lovely one ", in which she called him " our darling ".

His monument is adorned by a poem written by Joseph Weigl, one of his pupils:

" And did those feet in ancient time " is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books.

Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

Opinion differs as to whether the composition of the poem is contemporary with its transcription, or whether the poem was composed at an earlier time ( possibly as one of the Bear's Son Tales ) and orally transmitted for many years, and then transcribed at a later date.

The battle has remained prominent in the popular consciousness, with perhaps the best-known representation being Felicia Hemans's 1826 poem Casabianca.

Perhaps its best-known appearance is in Lewis Carroll's whimsical poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter " that appears in his 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass.

Turner was married on May 11, 1963, to Geills McCrae Kilgour ( b. 1937 ) who was a great-niece of Canadian Army doctor John McCrae, the author of what is probably the best-known First World War poem In Flanders Fields, and sister of David Kilgour, a long-time Canadian Member of Parliament.

The Soča inspired the poet Simon Gregorčič to write his best-known poem Soči ( To the Soča ), one of the masterpieces of Slovene poetry.

It may have inspired her best-known poem, Goblin Market.

The inscription, from Byron's poem Epitaph to a Dog, has become one of his best-known works:

His best-known poem is the text of the " Andreas-Hofer-Lied " (" Zu Mantua in Banden "), the present anthem of the Austrian Bundesland of the Tyrol.

The best-known work from this period is the poem Erotokritos by Vitsentzos Kornaros ( Βιτσένζος Κορνάρος ).

This included his masterpiece and possibly best-known poem, " Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7, 000 Pounds ," written about an actual cheese produced in Ingersoll in 1866 and sent to exhibitions in Toronto, New York, and Britain:

Shortly after this, Byron began working on his Don Juan ( 1819 – 1824 ), probably the best-known English poem in ottava rima.

He also published some volumes of poems, among them his best-known work, Davideis ( 1712 ), a poem in five books about the life of King David.

* The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me A poem cited in this article as one of Schwartz's best-known pieces.

Publications from this time include possibly his best-known work, the long poem Briggflatts ( 1966 ), described by critic Cyril Connolly as " the finest long poem to have been published in England since T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets ", and Collected Poems ( 1968, revised editions 1978 and 1985 ).

The poem is typical of Paterson, offering a romantic view of rural life, and is one of his best-known works.

To commemorate Xu Zhimo, in July 2008, a stone of white Beijing marble was installed at the Backs of King's College, Cambridge ( near the bridge over the River Cam ); on it are inscribed the first two and last two lines from Xu's best-known poem (, variously translated as " On Leaving Cambridge ", " Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again ", " Goodbye Again, Cambridge ", " Leaving the Revisited Cambridge " etc ).

The best-known poem from the book was " A Vision of Poesy ".

It is engraved with a quotation from his best-known poem, " Hamnavoe ":

Jago's best-known poem, " The Blackbirds ", was first printed in Hawkesworths Adventurer ( No. 37, March 13, 1753 ), and was generally attributed to Gilbert West, but Jago published it in his own name, with other poems, in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems ( vol.

Among his best-known works are the didactic poem in three books, De arte poetica ( On the Art of Poetry ), partly inspired by Horace, and Scacchia Ludus (" The Game of Chess "), translated into many languages over the centuries.

His best-known and most popular poem is the great aisling " Gile na Gile ( Brightness Most Bright )" which has been called one of the miracles of Irish literature.

Though Gabirol as a philosopher was not studied by the Jewish community, Gabirol as a poet kept alive the remembrance of the ideas of the philosopher ; for his best-known poem, Keter Malkut (" Royal Crown "), is a philosophical treatise in poetical form, the " double " of the Fons Vitæ.

Perhaps his best-known poem was ' Lament for a Cricket Eleven '.

Her best-known poem is My Country, written at age 19 while homesick in England, and first published in the London Spectator in 1908 under the title Core of My Heart: the second stanza of this poem is among the best known in Australia.