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.

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.

However, it is also possible to read the poem as an allegory on the way fate moves human affairs or as an attempt to comprehend the horrific violence in Europe at the time of the poem's composition.

Carolyn Dinshaw argues that the poem may have been a response to accusations that Richard II had a male lover — an attempt to reestablish the idea that heterosexuality was the Christian norm.

Accordingly, Bott concludes that the poem was an attempt to expand Valiente's couplet into a full Wiccan credo, written by someone who misunderstood the archaic language they attempted to imitate.

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.

That year he published a long philosophical poem, The Spirit of the Matterhorn, which he had written in Zermatt in 1873 in an attempt to articulate his secularist views.

Eleven years before Germany's first attempt at democracy really took its last breath, when the Nazis came to power in 1933, in this poem Tucholsky already pointed a finger at those responsible – the poem describes the " mob " living off the republic, sabotaging it and scrawling swastikas on its doors.

One of the more notable poets of this time was Mao Xiuhui, a 16th century poet that used the plight of her husband's failed attempt at gaining a position as civil servant to write a poem that draws parallels between the male and female as they suffer hardships in the political and domestic arenas respectively.

His poem beginning " Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portions " ( sometimes referred to as " Sapphics ") was written in the aftermath of his suicide attempt.

Tolkien consciously based the lay on the medieval story of Kullervo in the Finnish mythological poem Kalevala, saying that it was " an attempt to reorganize ... the tale of Kullervo the hapless, into a form of my own ".

An attempt was made in 1995 to adopt Natalla Arsiennieva's poem " O God Almighty " as the national anthem, but the suggestion was not acted on even though it was supported by a parliamentary committee.

He is remembered for some classic sketches such as " Der Überzieher " ( about a man getting in trouble in a restaurant because he has to constantly guard his overcoat ), " Die Bürgschaft " ( his bumbling attempt to recite Schiller's poem The Hostage ), or " Die Wetterkarte " ( The Weather Chart, where he speaks in a wide variety of German dialects ).

Pope, also a Catholic, wrote the poem at the request of friends in an attempt to " comically merge the two.

The poem was originally sent to Hagar Olsson in an April 1920 letter where Edith recounts flu, abject poverty and a humiliating attempt to sell some old underwear to get money.

The picture illustrates an episode from Tasso's heroic crusader poem " Jerusalem Delivered " ( 1580 ), in which the Christian knights Carlo and Ubaldo confront a dragon in their attempt to rescue Rinaldo from a pagan sorceress

The Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli ( 1855 – 1912 ) stated that his long lyric poem L ' ultimo viaggio was an attempt to reconcile the portrayals of Ulysses in Dante and Tennyson with Tiresias's prophecy that Ulysses would die " a mild death off the sea ".

Like English, or Latin, or Chinese, there are certain concepts for which mathematics is particularly well suited: it would be as foolish to attempt to write a love poem in the language of mathematics as to prove the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra using the English language.

Lewis Carroll wrote Hiawatha's Photographing, which he introduced by noting ( in the same rhythm as the Longfellow poem ) " In an age of imitation, I can claim no special merit for this slight attempt at doing what is known to be so easy.

The British bombing frustrated the first attempt to have a modern edition of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf when the subsequent fire destroyed the 20-year work of scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin.

The images of the urn described within the poem are intended as obvious depictions of common activities: an attempt at courtship, the making of music, and a religious rite.

The title poem of her last book, The Gates, is based on her unsuccessful attempt to visit Korean poet Kim Chi-Ha on death row in South Korea.

On the other hand, one might posit a poem which is composed by a literate scribe, who acquired literacy by way of learning Latin ( and absorbing Latinate culture and ways of thinking ), probably a monk and therefore profoundly Christian in outlook.

The danse macabre combines both desires: in many ways similar to the mediaeval mystery plays, the dance-with-death allegory was originally a didactic dialogue poem to remind people of the inevitability of death and to advise them strongly to be prepared at all times for death ( see memento mori and Ars moriendi ).

In many ways the Smaug episode reflects and references the dragon of Beowulf, and Tolkien uses the episode to put into practice some of the ground-breaking literary theories he had developed about the Anglo-Saxon poem and its early medieval portrayal of the dragon as having bestial intelligence.

The title poem portrays the Jewish community of Hester Street New York, and deals with the effects of capitalism, gender conflict and conflicts between generations on this immigrant community in ways that bear comparison to the works of Charles Reznikoff.

Theatrical forms known in Spenser's time such as The Masque and the Mummers ' Play are incorporated into the poem in ways which twist tradition and turn it to political propaganda in the service of Queen Elizabeth I.

In its aesthetic objectives, the symphonic poem is in some ways related to opera ; whilst it does not use a sung text, it seeks, like opera, a union of music and drama.

A poem by Bodenheim featured in the 1917 Others: An Anthology of the New Verse, which also included poems by such future luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Carl Sandburg, and William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens ' " Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird ".

The Letterist poem, or lettrie, in many ways resembles what certain Italian Futurists ( such as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ), Russian Futurists ( such as Velemir Chlebnikov, Iliazd, or Alexej Kručenych — cf.

The end of old ways, a feature of the bardic laments of the 18th century, is also to be found in the early 19th century poem Caoine Cill Chais ( The Lament for Kilcash ).

It has been spelt in different ways, Robert Burns called it Bucky in his poem Lady Onlie-Lady Lucky.

While writing the poem, Williams struggled to find ways to incorporate the real world facts obtained through his research into the poem.

In some ways the song echoes the Old Welsh poem Y Gododdin about a similar defeat in about 600.

Martha Serpas's poem " The Diener " uses the word in all these ways.

The poem is about the many ways to describe " that sorrowful absence in a man ".

( All these terms refer to ways a poem could be defective according to the rigid poetic structures then prevalent.

This poem can be interpreted in many different ways, the most basic of which is simply a reflection of the sounds that bells can make, and the emotions evoked from that sound.

" Harrison states: " In the original poem, the verse says ' Without going out of my door, I can know the ways of heaven.