A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

Similarly, in 1971, Alistair Campbell stated that the apologue technique used in Beowulf is so infrequent in the epic tradition aside from when Virgil uses it that the poet who composed Beowulf could not have written the poem in such a manner without first coming across Virgil's writings.

Kiernan's reasoning has in part to do with the much-discussed political context of the poem: it has been held by most scholars, until recently, that the poem was composed in the 8th century on the assumption that a poem eliciting sympathy for the Danes could not have been composed by Anglo-Saxons during the Viking Ages of the 9th and 10th centuries, and that the poem celebrates the namesakes of 8th Century Mercian Kings.

Both the team and its fans ( in the poem, about 5, 000 attended the game ) believe they can win " if only " they could somehow get " Mighty Casey " ( Mudville's star player ) up to bat.

In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.

In the poem Carmen Campidoctoris, Babieca appears as a gift from " a barbarian " to El Cid, so its name could also be derived from " Barbieca ", or " horse of the barbarian ".

and David Emmanuel Daniel Europaeus ) collected most of the poem variants ( one poem could easily have countless variants ) scattered across rural areas of Karelia and Ingria.

The second stanza of the poem is the narrator's response to the power and effects of an Abyssinian maid's song, which enraptures him but leaves him unable to act on her inspiration unless he could hear her once again.

Taken together, the Preface could connect with the first half of the poem to suggest that the poem is from the view of a dreaming narrator, or it could connect with the second half of the poem to show how a reader is to interpret the lines by connecting himself with the persona in a negative manner.

Much of the poem could have been influenced by Coleridge's opium dream or, as his friend and fellow poet Robert Southey joked, " Coleridge had dreamed he had written a poem in a dream ".

The poem could have provided Coleridge with the idea of a dream poem that discusses fountains, sacredness, and even a woman singing a sorrowful song.

" He then continued by focusing on the manner in which the poem was composed, ' We could have informed Mr. Coleridge of a reverend friend of ours, who actually wrote down two sermons on a passage in the Apocalypse, from the recollection of the spontaneous exercise of his faculties in sleep.

Although Virgil died before he could put the finishing touches on his poem, it was soon recognized as the greatest work of Latin literature.

His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.

Reliance is therefore not to be placed upon the archaeological particulars in an oral poem ; ;

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.

The book points out that the poem has the same meter as that of " Auld Lang Syne "; the songs can be sung interchangeably.

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Walter Goffart believes it is probable that in this narrative Paul was making use of an oral tradition, and is sceptical that it can be dismissed as merely a typical topos of an epic poem.

Beauty and Truth have been argued to be nearly synonymous, as reflected in the statement " Beauty is truth, truth beauty " in the poem Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.

Whereas if a journalist writes exactly the same set of words, intending them as shorthand notes to help him write a longer article later, these would not be a poem.

A similar story of a young girl transformed into a white deer can be found in Yorkshire, where it formed the basis for Wordsworth's poem The White Deer of Rylstone.

Similar examples may be found in Irish poet William Butler Yeats ' poem The Wild Swans at Coole where the maturing season that the poet observes symbolically represents his own ageing self.

Sparrow himself adds, " How difficult it is to achieve a satisfactory analysis may be judged by considering the last poem in A Shropshire Lad.

In the poem the prisoner is suffering " for the colour of his hair ", a natural, given attribute which, in a clearly coded reference to homosexuality, is reviled as " nameless and abominable " ( recalling the legal phrase peccatum horribile, inter christianos non nominandum, " the horrible sin, not to be named amongst Christians ").

Kiernan argues against an 8th-century provenance because this would still require that the poem be transmitted by Anglo-Saxons through the Viking Age, holds that the paleographic and codicological evidence encourages the belief that Beowulf is an 11th-century composite poem, and states that Scribe A and Scribe B are the authors and that Scribe B is the more poignant of the two.

Rather, given the implications of the theory of oral-formulaic composition and oral tradition, the question concerns how the poem is to be understood, and what sorts of interpretations are legitimate.

The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).

They are of two kinds: the " parallel texts ", which are parallel developments of the corresponding passages in the base text, and the speeches of Elihu ( Chapters 32-37 ), which consist of a polemic against the ideas expressed elsewhere in the poem, and so are claimed to be interpretive interpolations.

Catullus 51 follows Sappho 31 so closely that some believe the later poem to be, in part, a direct translation of the earlier poem, and 61 and 62 are certainly inspired by and perhaps translated directly from lost works of Sappho.

Hoffmann von Fallersleben intended Das Lied der Deutschen to be sung to Haydn's tune, as the first publication of the poem included the music.

It was completed in 1905 and stands next to Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, with the following lines from Cowper's poem, referring to the British Empire:

Kubla Khan () is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816.

Among his last completed works were the illustrations for Balzac's Droll Stories ( 1961 ) and for his own poem The Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb ( 1962 ), which he had written some 15 years earlier.

He completed the poem at the Indian Queen Hotel, where he was staying, and entitled it " Defence of Fort McHenry ".

The perceived deficiency of any account of Aeneas ' marriage to Lavinia or his founding of the Roman race led some writers, such as the 15th-century Italian poet Maffeo Vegio ( through his Mapheus Vegius widely printed in the Renaissance ), Pier Candido Decembrio ( whose attempt was never completed ), Claudio Salvucci ( in his 1994 epic poem The Laviniad ), and Ursula K. Le Guin ( in her 2008 novel Lavinia ) to compose their own supplements.

The first full and faithful rendering of the poem in an Anglic language is the Scots translation by Gavin Douglas — his Eneados, completed in 1513, which also included Maffeo Vegio's supplement.

By the end of May 1841 Wagner had completed the libretto or poem as he preferred to call it.

By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto ( or “ poem ”, as Wagner liked to call his libretti ).

On 20 August he began the prose sketch for the opera, and the libretto ( or poem, as Wagner preferred to call it ) was completed by September 18.

* George Chapman completed Marlowe's poem after Marlowe's death ; this version was often reprinted in the first half of the 17th century, with editions in 1598 ( Linley ); 1600 and 1606 ( Flasket ); 1609, 1613, 1617, 1622 ( Blount ); 1629 ( Hawkins ); and 1637 ( Leake ).

When the poem is completed, the echo of the last phrase, line, or sentence, generally serves as the title.

After Don Procopio Bizet completed only one further work in Rome, the symphonic poem Vasco da Gama.

What was completed of this poem was composed between 94-95 CE based on Silvae 4. 7. 21ff.

Though the preface to the poem promises both joyous and dark tales ahead, the Nibelungenlied is by and large a very tragic work, and these four opening verses are believed to have been a late addition to the text, composed after the body of the poem had been completed.

Droste intended to write one poem for each Sunday and Feast Day of the church year and the cycle was meant to please her devout grandmother, but when Droste had completed 25 poems, she realised they were too personal and showed too many traces of spiritual doubt, so she shelved the work until 1839 when a friend persuaded her to complete the series.

The epic Elizabethan poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser was published, in its first part, in 1590 and then in completed form in 1597.

In 1858 he completed the symphonic poem Richard III, his first major orchestral composition since the Triumphal Symphony.

Ginsberg completed Part II and the " Footnote " after Ferlinghetti had promised to publish the poem.

For example, one finds the gods Bafum e Travagan in a Provençal poem on the life of St. Honorat, completed in 1300.

Mahler completed what would become the first movement of the symphony in 1888 as a single-movement symphonic poem called Totenfeier ( Funeral Rites ).

When she completed her secondary education, she was admitted to the National Theatre's Drama School after reciting a poem by Kostas Karyotakis.

In 1567 Golding completed all fifteen books of Ovid ’ s poem.

" Following in 1998, M. H. Abrams explained, To Autumn ' was the last work of artistic consequence that Keats completed [...] he achieved this celebratory poem, with its calm acquiescence to time, transience and mortality, at a time when he was possessed by a premonition [...] that he had himself less than two years to live ".