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.

Abraham Akkerman preceded his article on human automatism in the contemporary city with a short satirical poem on a pair of golems turning human.

Reflecting " partisan public sentiment on an English-Protestant national holiday ", in the published editions of 1645 and 1673 the poem is preceded by five epigrams on the subject of the Gunpowder Plot, apparently written by Milton in preparation for the larger work.

* Richard Strauss's standard repertory opera Ariadne auf Naxos was preceded by a L ' Arianna each by Claudio Monteverdi and Carlo Agostino Badia, by an opera Ariadne ( 1691 ) by German composer Johann Georg Conradi, and by non-operatic Ariadne auf Naxos works including a cantata based on the Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg poem and Jiri Antonin Benda's melodrama Ariadne auf Naxos ( Benda ), and by Joseph Haydn's cantata Arianna a Naxos.

The poem was preceded by an eight-minute introduction.

In the printed text, the poem is preceded by two commendatory poems, the second of which, signed " Contraria Contrariis ; Vigilantius ; Dormitanus ," contains a reference to Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucrece, published four months previously:

Longfellow's poem shed light on the 150 years of Acadian settlement that preceded the establishment of Halifax.

Accessed March 11, 2008 .</ ref > is the earliest of Chaucer ’ s major poems, preceded only by his short poem, " An ABC ," and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose.

The Corn Law Rhymes, first published in 1831, had been preceded by the publication of the single long poem The Ranter in 1830.

In this volume, Emerson sets out to answer “ the question of the times :” “ How shall I live ?” It is composed of nine essays, each preceded by a poem.

The poem is preceded by a dissertation on the mock heroic, in which he avows Cervantes as his master.

The Cypria, presupposing an acquaintance with the events of the Homeric poem, confined itself to what preceded the Iliad, and thus formed a kind of introduction.

A poem by Dylan Thomas, a saxophone solo by Charles Parker, a painting by Jackson Pollock -- these are pure confabulations as ends in themselves.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

The poem consisted of only two words, the word `` Wait '', repeated over and over at irregular intervals and with different inflections, and then the word `` Now ''!!

The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

One theory holds that it is identical to a word that means " great-grandmother " appearing in the Eddic poem Rígsþula.

Enjambment may be used in light verse, such as to form a word that rhymes with " orange ", as in this example by Willard Espy, in his poem " The Unrhymable Word: Orange ":

Dunn, by contrast, concluded that Indiana settlers adopted the word as a humorous nickname, and that the negative connotation had already faded when John Finley wrote his poem.

The word katana was used in ancient Japan and is still used today, whereas the old usage of the word nihontō is found in the poem 日本刀歌, the Song of Nihontō, by the Song Dynasty poet Ouyang Xiu.

There is a heavy use of assonance, the reuse of vowel sounds, and a reliance on alliteration, repetition of the first sound of a word, within the poem including the first line: " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan ".

The person from Porlock later became a word to describe interrupted genius, and the literary critic Walter Jackson Bate recounted that while John Livingston Lowes taught the poem, he told his students " If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock.

Although most surviving instances of the word refer to spiritual matters, it was also used in more mundane situations, as in the Viking Age runestone poem from the inscription Sö 56 from Fyrby:

Another component of a verse's metre are the caesurae ( literally, cuts ), which are not pauses but compulsory word boundaries which occur after a particular syllabic position in every line of a poem.

The word " rhyme " may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes.

2 in his poem On Human Nature, which copies from Sappho the quasi-sacred grove ( alsos ), the wind-shaken branches, and the striking word for " deep sleep " ( kōma ).

In the ninth and tenth centuries, however, notably with the compilation of the Kokinshū, the short poem became the dominant form of poetry in Japan, and the originally general word became the standard name for this form.

In Old English, the word wicing appears first in the Anglo-Saxon poem, " Widsith ", which probably dates from the 9th century.

The word " viking " was first popularised at the beginning of the 19th century by Erik Gustaf Geijer in his poem, The Viking.

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.

Half spoken word poem and half tape-recorded sounds, the song documented Baez's visit to Hanoi, North Vietnam, in December 1972, during which she and her traveling companions survived the 11-day long Christmas Bombings campaign over Hanoi and Haiphong.

A. Milne's poem " In the dark ", in Now We Are Six, has been noted for its emulation of crib talk, a form of monologue word play used by infants to practice phonology, syntax and conversation skills

; Snowball: A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer.