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.

In determining the extent to which any poem is formulaic it is idle, however, to inspect nothing besides lines repeated in their entirety, for a stock of line-fragments would be sufficient to permit the poet to extemporize with deftness if they provided for prosodic needs.

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 Greek historian Herodotus stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid, and Etruscan-like language was found on the Lemnos stele.

The original lyrics authored by Wybicki were a poem consisting of six stanzas and a chorus repeated after all but last stanzas, all following an ABAB rhyme scheme.

In this variant the standard end-word pattern is repeated for twelve stanzas, ending with a three-line envoi, resulting in poem of 75 lines.

He also examined the role of the poet in American society and famously summarized his poetic method in the phrase " No ideas but in things " ( found in his poem " A Sort of a Song " and repeated again and again in Paterson ).

While he was recovering, Mantle made peace with his estranged wife, Merlyn, and repeated a request he made decades before for Bobby Richardson to read a poem at Mantle's funeral if he died.

* In the poem Völuspá from the Poetic Edda, the monstrous hound Garmr howls three times at the Gnipa-cave ( or at least, the description of his howling is repeated three times ).

The fragments are sufficient to show that the poem was composed in twenty-six line triads, of strophe, antistrophe and epode, repeated in columns along the original scroll, facts that aided Page in placing many of the fragments, sometimes of no more than a word, in what he believed to be their proper positions.

The refrain is repeated throughout the poem, either exactly or with variation.

This was done by adding false duplicate indicator groups to WOK-keys, to give the appearance that an agent had repeated the use of certain words of their code poem.

The word is repeated many times throughout Part II of the poem, and begins ( as an exclamation of " Moloch!

With Crowley's editions, the poem followed an existing and subsequently repeated convention of titling the poem The Vision of Piers Pierce Plowman, which is in fact the conventional name of just one section of the poem.

The Song Thrush's characteristic song, with melodic phrases repeated twice or more, is described by the nineteenth-century British poet Robert Browning in his poem Home Thoughts, from Abroad:

The text for a da capo aria was typically a poem or other verse sequence written in two strophes, the first for the A section ( hence repeated later ) and the second for B.

( The conductus sets a rhymed Latin poem called a sequence to a repeated melody, much like a contemporary hymn.

The oft-praised " roundness " of the poem is thus emphasized, and the final link-word is repeated in the first line of the whole, forging a connection between the two ends of the poem and producing a structure that is itself circular.

There are repeated instances of the word “ White ,” which is almost certainly a play on “ Blanche .” In addition, at the end of the poem there are references to a ' long castel ', suggesting the house of Lancaster ( line 1318 ) and a ' ryche hil ' as John of Gaunt was earl of Richmond ( mond = hill ) ( line 1319 ) and the narrator swears by St John, which is John of Gaunt's saints name.

" One notable phrase that echoes this theme and is repeated throughout the poem is, " No ideas but in things.

For example, the poem " Middle Class Blues " consists of various typicalities of middle class life, with the phrase " we can't complain " repeated several times, and concludes with " what are we waiting for ?".

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

In the poem Grímnismál, Odin ( disguised as Grímnir ) tells the young Agnar that every day Freyja allots seats to half of those that are slain in her hall Fólkvangr, while Odin owns the other half.

In the poem Lokasenna, where Loki accuses nearly every female in attendance of promiscuity and / or unfaithfulness, an aggressive exchange occurs between Loki and Freyja.

In the course of the poem " he considers every form of sexual orientation-celibacy, homosexuality, hedonism, and heterosexuality-raising the same kinds of questions as when he considers Islam or Democracy.

Alec Finlay rubber stamp letterbox poem: " There is a fork in every path ".

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.

As a characteristic of speech and writing, metaphors can serve the poetic imagination, Sylvia Plath, in her poem " Cut ", to compare the blood issuing from her cut thumb to the running of a million soldiers, " redcoats, every one "; and, enabling Robert Frost, in " The Road Not Taken ", to compare one's life to a journey.

An auxiliary of the Institute in Ohio published a poem with wording such as " down with every " metric " scheme " and " A perfect inch, a perfect pint ".

In Marie de France's poem Bisclavret ( c. 1200 ), the nobleman Bizuneh, for reasons not described in the lai, had to transform into a wolf every week.

In the poem, this has been transformed into an abbreviated " and " and given an apostrophe, with every " and " in the poem's additional lines then being written " an ' " as if to match.

In 1985 he also wrote the following poem, where each stanza is a lipogrammatic pangram ( using every letter of the alphabet except " E ").

Tolkien, is that the poem is an elegy on a terrible loss and that the monastic author pinpoints the cause of the defeat in the commander's sin of pride, a viewpoint bolstered by the fact that ofermōd is, in every other attested instance, used to describe Satan's pride.

Eliot's poem " The Naming of Cats " ( 1939 ) playfully suggests that every household cat must bear ( besides whatever the family calls him ) two additional names: one an exotic appellation shared by no other cat ; the other forever unutterable because it is known only to the cat himself (" His ineffable effable / Effanineffable / Deep and inscrutable singular Name ").

A discussion of authorship or date for the individual parts would be futile, since almost every line or stanza could have been added, altered or removed at will at any time before the poem was written down in the 13th century.

* The poem Love and tensor algebra, in the English translation of Stanislaw Lem's short-story collection The Cyberiad, claims that every frustum longs to be a cone.

The eddic poem Grímnismál says that Thor, the weather god, wades the straits at Karmsund every morning on his way to Yggdrasil, the tree of life.

Now Press Return incorporated several novel themes, including user-defined elements to the poem, lines which changed their order ( and meaning ) every few seconds, and text which wrote itself in a spiral around the screen.

A. C. Swinburne placed it with " Ode on a Grecian Urn " as " the nearest to absolute perfection " of Keats's odes ; Aileen Ward declared it " Keats's most perfect and untroubled poem "; and Douglas Bush has stated that the poem is " flawless in structure, texture, tone, and rhythm "; Walter Evert, in 1965, stated that " To Autumn " is " the only perfect poem that Keats ever wrote – and if this should seem to take from him some measure of credit for his extraordinary enrichment of the English poetic tradition, I would quickly add that I am thinking of absolute perfection in whole poems, in which every part is wholly relevant to and consistent in effect with every other part.

In Pat Conroy's novel The Prince of Tides, Savannah Wingo writes a poem which celebrates the " shy Oberammergau of the itinerant barber ;" her praise for her grandfather's tradition of walking around town carrying a 90 pound cross every Good Friday.