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.

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.

It has been asserted that this poem demonstrates the fundamental Anglo-Saxon belief that life is shaped by fate.

But the itch for novelty has encouraged a few critics to suggest that the poem, in some dark but fundamental way, has more to it as a whole than do the later odes.

Ahmad Shah Durrani ( c. 1722 – 1773 ) ( Pashto /), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī ( Pashto / Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي ) and born as Ahmad < u > Kh </ u > ān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire ( Afghan Empire ) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan .</ poem >

An Old English poem such as Beowulf is very different from modern poetry.

Cuthbert's letter on Bede's death, the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae, moreover, commonly is understood to indicate that Bede also composed a five line vernacular poem known to modern scholars as Bede ’ s Death Song

* Catullus translations: Catullus's work in Latin and multiple ( ten or more ) modern languages, including scanned versions of every poem

In modern Homeric scholarship many of Homer's " nods " are explicable as the consequences of the poem being retold and improvised by generations of oral poets.

His technique relies heavily on the satirical poem with a joke in the last line, thus drawing him closer to the modern idea of epigram as a genre.

Fenrir appears in modern literature in the poem " Om Fenrisulven og Tyr " ( 1819 ) by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger ( collected in Nordens Guder ), the novel Der Fenriswolf by K. H. Strobl, and Til kamp mod dødbideriet ( 1974 ) by E. K. Reich and E. Larsen.

That poem in turn appears to have been the principal source for the famous Anglo-Saxon poem to which the modern title The Phoenix is given.

* Nikos Kazantzakis aspires to continue the poem and explore more modern concerns in The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel ( 1938 ).

The modern cognates of original words have been used whenever practical to give a close approximation of the feel of the original poem.

* Wendy Cope's poem " Strugnell's Rubiyat " is a close parody of the FitzGerald translation, relocated to modern day Tulse Hill.

This is regarded as unhistorical by modern scholars, perhaps invented by the comic poets or originating from a misreading of a first-person reference in a non-biographical poem.

The modern nineteen-line dual-refrain form of the villanelle derives from 19th-century admiration of the only Renaissance poem in that form: a poem about a turtledove titled " Villanelle " by Jean Passerat ( 1534 – 1602 ).

Bott states that the author of the poem was evidently unaware that this contraction of " and " is not an archaic, but a modern convention.

" The legendary drinking, feasting and boasting of warriors in the mead hall is echoed in the mead hall Dyn Eidyn ( modern day Edinburgh ), and in the epic poem Y Gododdin, both dated around AD 700.

The account formerly given of him, that he was the contemporary of Theocritus and a friend and teacher of Moschus, and lived about 280 BC, is now regarded as incorrect: it rests on a misreading of the Epitaph of Bion, a poem commemorating his death, which in early modern times was erroneously attributed to Moschus.

A classic reference which has generally entered modern language is the concept that " Hope springs eternal " taken from Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, the phrase reading " Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest :" Another popular reference, " Hope is the thing with feathers ," is from a poem by Emily Dickinson.

The Cretan Renaissance poem Erotokritos is undoubtedly the masterpiece of this early period of modern Greek literature, and represents one of its supreme achievements.

But irrespective of any scruples about his treatment of myth, Bacchylides is thought to demonstrate in Ode 5 some of his finest work and the description of the eagle's flight, near the beginning of the poem, has been called by one modern scholar " the most impressive passage in his extant poetry.

* Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood re-envisioned the myth of Helen in modern, feminist guise in her poem " Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing ".

In response, Southey attacked what he called the ‘ Satanic School ’ among modern poets in the preface to his poem, A Vision of Judgement, written following the death of George III.

The title " teacher " was first given to Aristotle by Muslim scholars, and was later used by Western philosophers ( as in the famous poem of Dante ) who were influenced by the tradition of Islamic philosophy.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

In a footnote to a poem titled Speech to the Western Indians, ( published 1813 ) Arent DePeyster, British commandant at Fort Michilimackinac from 1774 to 1779, noted that " Baptist Point de Saible " was " handsome ", " well educated ", and " settled in Eschecagou ".

Actually, this poem was named Ode to the pastry ( 詠酥 ; 酥 is a kind of food much like pastry in the Western world ) and has nothing to do with ice cream.

While living in Harrisburg, Lewis also published the popular poem, " St. Clair's Defeat ," which described the defeat of Arthur St. Clair by the tribes of the Western Confederacy during the Battle of the Wabash.

This book consists of three sections: a journal of gardening and visitors ; a section of more finished poems, filled with a landscape of Western Sonoma County ; and a single, long poem written in sparse triplets to reflect a white-tail kite ’ s hovering flight.

Goel was well read in Western and Eastern literature, and among his most favorite writers or works were Thomas Hardy, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Aldous Huxley, Plato, Tagore, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay, Vaishnava and Baul poets, the Kathamrita written by Mahendranath Gupta ( Sri M .) and Thomas Gray's poem " Elegy ".

Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem " Christmas Treasures " appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse.

He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Western Star, an unfinished narrative poem on the settling of the United States.

The earliest known work of literature by an African American and by a slave, Lucy Terry's poem " Bars Fight ," was composed in 1746 and was first published in 1855 in Josiah Holland's " History of Western Massachusetts ".

Dr. Brewster M. Higley ( 1823 – 1911 ) originally wrote the words in a poem called " My Western Home " in the early 1870s in Smith County, Kansas.

Okara is very concerned with what happens when the ancient culture of Africa is faced with modern Western culture, as in his poem " Once Upon a Time ".

His proficiency in modelling secured him the situation of general assistant and artist of the Western Museum, kept by a Louisiana naturalist of French extraction named Joseph Dorfeuille, where his ingenious representation of the infernal regions to illustrate the more striking scenes in the poem of Dante met with extraordinary success.

American Cinematographer described the film as " a musical poem praising the evolution of Western man from Cairo to Los Angeles.

In 1616 George Chapman completed his monumental translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey into English verse, which were the first ever complete translations of either poem, both central to the Western Canon, into the English language.

He waxed lyrical about the village, declaring it to be " the most charming village in these Western backwoods " and that it was " the village of the pastoral poem and of the rural lyric, dainty enough for the feet of Amaryllis and attuned to the love songs of Strephon.

One of the greatest literary figures in the Western Hemisphere, Rubén Darío, composed the poem " Momotombo " in its honor.

Nevertheless, the poem appeared in translation in Western media and also had limited underground circulation in Romania.

The poem — subversive even in being an incunable of the surfacing Western Lombard dialect as a literary language — being anonymous, was first attributed to the celebrated Carlo Porta, but Grossi of his own accord acknowledged himself the author.

) Tasso's poem remained popular among educated English readers and was, at least until the end of the 19th century, considered one of the supreme achievements of Western literature.

Others are modern, composed for a particular event, much as a poet laureate might write a poem to celebrate an event in a Western country.

His epic poem Quest Eternal is rich in the application of symbolism of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions.

The poem seems to have been written in Middle Rhenish territory about 1130, at a time, therefore, when the crusades had brought the East nearer to the Western world, and when stories of its marvels were sure to find an eager audience.