`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

She was the pursuer as clearly as was Venus in Shakespeare's poem.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

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.

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.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

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 Franck symphonic poem, `` Psyche '', is a lush, sweet-sounding affair that was pleasant to encounter once again.

Later legends ( beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD ) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel.

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.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

At that time, the poem was titled America for publication.

Ward's music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

The poem was initially published two years later in The Congregationalist, to commemorate the Fourth of July.

Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward too was inspired to compose his tune.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

The 1963 film The King's Breakfast was based on Milne's poem of the same name.

Rousseau's conception of alpine purity was later emphasized with the publication of Albrecht von Haller's poem Die Alpen that described the mountains as an area of mythical purity.

According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim was one of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned in stanza 2 of the eddic poem Völuspá.

Stylistic evidence suggests that the poem ( with most of Plato's other alleged epigrams ) was actually written some time after Plato had died: its form is that of the Hellenistic erotic epigram, which did not become popular until after 300 BC.

Alfred Tennyson's poem The Princess is speculated by some critics to have been inspired by Love's Labour's Lost ; the poem was parodied by W. S.

The frequently quoted ( and often parodied ) opening lines set the theme and rhythm for the poem:

The poem and its sentiments have since been parodied by many people often unhappy with the jingoism they feel it expresses or the propagandistic use it is put to.

* One of his best known poems was an exhortation " Against Idleness and Mischief " in Divine Songs for Children, a poem which was famously parodied by Lewis Carroll in his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in the poem " How Doth the Little Crocodile ", which is now better known than the original.

The title has been adapted and parodied by many writers including Dylan Thomas in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, Ogden Nash in his poem Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man, Joseph Heller in Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man, A. M. Klein in his poem Portrait of the Poet as Landscape, Andrew Barlow and Kent Roberts ' A Portrait of Yo Mama as a Young Man, Grayson Perry's biography Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, punk band Dillinger Four's song Portrait of the Artist as a Fucking Asshole, and William Eastlake's Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses.

Spike Milligan also parodied the opening of the poem:

Edward Wagenknecht has called it " the most parodied poem in the English language ".

The poem was parodied in newspapers and magazines, and strongly polarized public opinion.

Ogden Nash parodied the school in his poem Don't Guess Let Me Tell You: " Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor.

Absurdity is used in humor to make people laugh or to make a sophisticated point, for example in Lewis Carroll's " Jabberwocky ", a poem of nonsense verse, originally featured as a part of his absurdist novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There ( 1872 ); Carroll was a logician and parodied logic using illogic and inverting logical methods.

The twelve tone technique is one of the several modern music styles parodied in the ' Jungle Book ' symphonic poem Les Bandar-Log, but Koechlin also wrote a few pieces in what he described as the ' style atonal-sériel '.

The poem is influenced by the ballads of Rudyard Kipling and was often parodied, most famously by Billy Bennett as The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog.

The poem is parodied in Series 2 of DangerMouse in the episode " Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God.

Tim Blake ( synthesiser player on Planet Gong ) produced a solo album called " Blake's New Jerusalem ", including a 20 minute track with lyrics from Blake's poem.

The poem first appeared in the July 18, 1910 edition of the New York Evening Mail.

Marker created a 19-minute multimedia piece in 2005 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City titled Owls at Noon Prelude: The Hollow Men which was influenced by T. S. Eliot's poem.

A cheese of 7, 000 lb ( 3, 175 kg ) was produced in Ingersoll, Ontario, in 1866 and exhibited in New York and Britain ; it was immortalised in the poem " Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing over 7, 000 Pounds " by James McIntyre, a Canadian poet.

The New York Times ' obituary of Thayer on August 22, 1940, p. 19 quotes comedian DeWolf Hopper, who helped make the poem famous:

The critic Lewis Mumford found a copy of the poem in the New York Public Library in 1925 " with its pages uncut "— in other words, it had sat there unread for 50 years.

The poem also contains allusions to the Book of Revelation in its description of New Jerusalem and to the paradise of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

* 1977 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that ' the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem " God Save the Queen " and the poem " God Defend New Zealand ", written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.

In his modernist epic collage of place, Paterson ( published between 1946 and 1958 ), an account of the history, people, and essence of Paterson, New Jersey, he tried to write his own Modernist epic poem, focusing on " the local " on a wider scale than he had previously attempted.

However, after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D. C. and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, the Poet Laureate then in office, Billy Collins, was asked to write a poem to be read in front of a special joint session of Congress.

The author explicitly mentions the Musical Records of Old and New as his source for the poem.

*" The Shortest Journey ( poem ) in New Translations ( English )

The title poem portrays the Jewish community of Hester Street New York, and deals with the effects of capitalism, gender conflict and conflicts between generations on this immigrant community in ways that bear comparison to the works of Charles Reznikoff.

According to Kilmer's oldest son, Kenton, the poem was written on 2 February 1913 when the family resided in Mahwah, New Jersey.

Many older illustrations ( above ) show the statue with one foot on either side of the harbor mouth with ships passing under it: "... the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land ..." (" The New Colossus ", a poem engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty in 1903 ).

Patchen first began to develop his interest in literature and poetry while he was in high school, and the New York Times published his first poem while he was still in college.

This poem forms part of the cycle colloquially referred to as the New Oresteia.

She wrote an epic poem combining her classical Athens educational background by doing a Homeric centos, but adding stories from the book of Genesis and the New Testament stories of the life of Jesus Christ.

* Acton is the setting of the poem " The Vanishing Red ," by New England poet Robert Frost ( Mountain Interval, 1920 ).

As with Auburn, Maine, Auburn, Massachusetts and Auburn, New York, the name is from Oliver Goldsmith's popular 18th century poem, " The Deserted Village ", which begins:

Today Binyon's most famous poem, For the Fallen, is often recited at Remembrance Sunday services in the UK, and an integral part of Anzac Day services in Australia and New Zealand, and 11 November Remembrance Day services in Canada.

switches the movie from a really interesting, jittery, literate, and witty tone poem about justified contemporary paranoia ( and the creatively unhinged dark side of New York City ) to an overloaded, meandering iteration of a Lethal Weapon project that bears the not-so-secret stamp of audience testing and tinkering.

Allison Latham, " Symphonic poem ", The Oxford Companion to Music ( Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 ).

* Trylon and Perisphere one movement tone poem the New York World's Fair of 1939-40 ( later rennamed Black Gold )