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 poem has been referenced in a huge number of television shows.

The same story is referenced in one stanza of the poem, Lokasenna, in which Loki insults Frigg by accusing her of infidelity with Odin's brothers:

In chapter 50, Hel is referenced (" to join the company of the quite monstrous wolf's sister ") in the skaldic poem Ragnarsdrápa.

Loki is referenced in two stanzas in Völuspá hin skamma, found within the poem Hyndluljóð.

Njörðr is referenced in stanza 22 of the poem Þrymskviða, where he is referred to as the father of the goddess Freyja.

* Trimalchio and his feast are referenced in Octavio Paz's poem, " I Speak of the City.

Valhalla is referenced at length in the Poetic Edda poem Grímnismál, and Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, while Valhalla receives lesser direct references in stanza 33 of the Völuspá, where the god Baldr's death is referred to as the " woe of Valhalla ", and in stanzas 1 to 3 of Hyndluljóð, where the goddess Freyja states her intention of riding to Valhalla with Hyndla, in an effort to help Óttar, as well as in stanzas 6 through 7, where Valhalla is mentioned again during a dispute between the two.

The poem was referenced in Vernor Vinge's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

In chapter 22, Skaði is referenced in the 10th century poem Haustlöng where the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir refers to an ox as " bow-string-Var's whale ".

In the short poem Helreið Brynhildar, Hel is directly referenced as a location in the title, translating to " Brynhild's Hel-Ride.

Astraea is also referenced in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, in Book IV between lines 990 and 1000.

Hamadryad is referenced as a whole in Edgar Allan Poe's poem, " Sonnet To Science.

Empusa is referenced in Rudyard Kipling's narrative poem, Tomlinson.

* Tess of the d ' Urbervilles is referenced to in the poem " Man and Dog " by Anglo-Welsh poet Edward Thomas.

The GAR is referenced in John McCrae's poem He Is There!

Nerval is referenced in Richard Wilbur's new book Anterooms in the poem " A Prelude ".

Joliet is referenced in Edgar Lee Masters's poem " Silas Dement ", part of the Spoon River Anthology:

In the 2009 movie Invictus, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, the poem is referenced several times.

* The Baudelaire poem is quoted and the island is referenced in Anthony Powell's The Kindly Ones ( 1962 ), part of A Dance to the Music of Time.

In relation, Thunor is sometimes used in Old English texts to gloss Jupiter, the god may be referenced in the poem Solomon and Saturn, and the Old English expression þunnorad (" thunder ride ") may refer to the god's thunderous, goat-led chariot.

* The poem is referenced in the Brand New song " Sowing Season ( Yeah )".

Rudyard Kipling referenced Aldershot in his poem " Gunga Din ".

" Huntington was also referenced in Carl Sandburg's poem, Southern Pacific.

* The New England poet Robert Lowell referenced both Shaw and the Shaw Memorial in the poem " For the Union Dead " which Lowell published in his 1964 book of the same name.

In 2003, Saaresto's friend Sami Järvi, a script-writer working at Remedy Entertainment handed Saaresto a poem he had written, asking him to turn it into a song to use in Remedy's video game Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.

They named themselves System of a Down, after a poem written by band mate Daron Malakian entitled " Victims of a Down.

Some commentators believe that James Jesus Angleton took the phrase from this poem when he described the confusion and strange loops of espionage and counter-intelligence, such as the Double Cross System, as a " wilderness of mirrors ".