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 values and talents which made the tile and the dome, the rug, the poem and the miniature, continue in certain social institutions which rise above the ordinary life of this city, as the great buildings rise above blank walls and dirty lanes.

They were taken from the " Ode to Joy ", a poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803, with additions made by the composer.

Beethoven had made plans to set this poem to music as far back as 1793, when he was 22 years old.

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

During this period, which has become known as baseball's dead-ball era, Cub infielders Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance were made famous as a double-play combination by Franklin P. Adams ' poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon.

The poem called Belfast Confetti tells of the attacks made by the IRA.

" When talking about the poem on its own, Hunt claimed it " is a voice and a vision, an everlasting tune in our mouths, a dream fit for Cambuscan and all his poets, a dance of pictures such as Giotto or Cimabue, revived and re-inspired, would have made for a Storie of Old Tartarie, a piece of the invisible world made visible by a sun at midnight and sliding before our eyes ...

A certain poem recorded by O ' Curry in English translation says that the missile fired by Lugh was a tathlum ( táthluib "( slingstone made of ) cement ").

In stanza 16 of the poem Grímnismál, Njörðr is described as having a hall in Nóatún made for himself.

The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain ; the poem is characterized by having two refrains, initially used in the first and third lines of the first stanza, and then alternately used at the close of each subsequent stanza until the final quatrain, which is concluded by the two refrains.

In January 1913, before Terra Nova left for home, a large wooden cross was made by the ship's carpenters, inscribed with the names of the lost party and Tennyson's line from his poem Ulysses: " To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ", and was erected as a permanent memorial on Observation Hill, overlooking Hut Point.

1787 ( fragment 1: see the third pair of images on this page ), but little could be made of them, since the indications of poem-end ( placed at the beginnings of the lines ) were lost, and scholars could only guess where one poem ended and another began.

Nicholson took the poem to a printer in Baltimore, who anonymously made the first known broadside printing on September 17 ; of these, two known copies survive.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

In other matches that season, Gloucestershire made its first visit to Old Trafford Cricket Ground in July to play Lancashire and this was the match immortalised by Francis Thompson in his idyllic poem At Lord's.

Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Nighthawks ( 1981 ), cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terrorist named " Wulfgar " ( after a character in the Old English poem Beowulf ).

DePeyster wrote that this poem was a speech that he had made at the Indian village of Abercroche ( now Harbor Springs, Michigan ) on July 4, 1779.

Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years.

Similar comments were made even in Constantinople, where John Kyriotes Geometres penned a poem offering a punning comparison between the Bulgarian Emperor and a comet which appeared in 989.

Darío's most famous poem in this regard is Blasón-" Coat of Arms " ( 1896 ), and his use of the swan made it a symbol for the Modernismo poetic movement that dominated Spanish language poetry from the 1880s until the First World War.

In 1659, the royalist Anglican theologian ( later Bishop of Rochester ) Thomas Sprat made his witty and literary reputation with his satirical poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector, clearly mocking Cromwell's legal status.

He also became an illustrator for the Breton poet Tristan Corbière's books ; among other works he made an etching for La Pastorale de Conlie, Corbière's poem about the camp of Conlie where many Breton soldiers died in 1870.

Sam often showed a skill in poetry, one occasion being when in Lothlórien after Gandalf fell to his apparent death, Sam added to the poem that Frodo had made about him.

Working with only eight letters ( or pro ... tr ... ntes ), Bowra conjured up a phrase that brilliantly develops the meaning and the euphony of the poem ( or proton ' ontrechontes ), describing luminescence " running along the forestays ".

Rebinding efforts, though saving the manuscript from much degeneration, have nonetheless covered up other letters of the poem, causing further loss.

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.

Tim Wiles, Director of Research at the Baseball Hall of Fame Library in Cooperstown, frequently dresses up as Casey to recite the poem.

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.

A shaken, confused Montag reads the poem, which ends up making Mrs. Phelps cry.

The poem Þrymskviða features Loki borrowing Freyja's cloak of feathers and Thor dressing up as Freyja to fool the lusty jötunn Þrymr.

In the poem, Thor wakes up to find that his powerful hammer, Mjöllnir, is missing.

Camille Paglia, who called the poem " the greatest poem of the twentieth century ," and said " all human beings, like Leda, are caught up moment by moment in the ' white rush ' of experience.

Keeping up with his sensationalist style, Heyerdahl argued that ' Redin ' were people coming from somewhere else, whereas an ancient Maldivian poem ( Fua Mulaku Rashoveshi ) says: " Havitta uhe haudahau, Redin taneke hedi ihau ".

However, while the poem does have homosexual elements, these elements are brought up by the poet in order to establish heterosexuality as the normal lifestyle of Gawain's world.

A poem discovered in October 2010, Last letter, describes what happened during the three days leading up to Plath's suicide.

After reciting the long poem " The Walrus and the Carpenter ", the Tweedles draw Alice's attention to the Red King — loudly snoring away under a nearby tree — and maliciously provoke her with idle philosophical banter that she exists only as an imaginary figure in the Red King's dreams ( thereby implying that she will cease to exist the instant he wakes up ).

Book 1 ( at the head of the Odyssean section ) opens with a storm which Juno, Aeneas ' enemy throughout the poem, stirs up against the fleet.

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.

The word bullshit does not appear in the text of the poem, though in keeping with the ballade form, the refrain " For Christ's sake stick it up your ass " appears in each following verse and concludes the envoi.

Due to the hundreds of thousands of casualties, the poppies that sprang up from the battlefield and that were immortalized in the poem In Flanders Fields, have become an emblem of human life lost in war.

As for the probability — to be sure that might admit some question — but I told her that in my judgment the poem had moral, and that too openly obtruded on the reader, It ought to have no more moral than the story of the merchant sitting down to eat dates by the side of a well and throwing the shells aside, and the Genii starting up and saying he must kill the merchant, because a date shell had put out the eye of the Genii's son.

Thoreau had taken up a version of Percy Shelley's principle in the political poem The Mask of Anarchy ( 1819 ), that Shelley begins with the powerful images of the unjust forms of authority of his time — and then imagines the stirrings of a radically new form of social action.

poem cards ) is a card game in which 100 waka poems are written on two sets of cards that make up one full deck.

Additionally, Carroll inserted on his own expense an " Easter Greeting " into the first edition of his poem after it already was printed: "... And if I have written anything to add to those stores of innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to look back upon without shame and sorrow ( as how much of life must then be recalled!