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.

An elaborate and not very amusing joke, this " puzzling " poem has been considered historically significant by some scholars as a signal from Ibycus that he is now turning his back on epic themes to concentrate on love poetry instead: a new vision or recusatio.

Mary Sawyer, the subject of the historically true poem, lived in Sterling.

The different names by which the city has been referred to historically are listed in the 7th century poem Thiruvilayaadal puraanam written by Paranjothi Munivar.

This poem of 490 hexameters is historically important as one of the earliest signs of the awakening appreciation of the mountains, though it is chiefly designed to contrast the simple and idyllic life of the inhabitants of the Alps with the corrupt and decadent existence of the dwellers in the plains.

Because of the poem, however, " Hiawatha " became the namesake for towns, schools and a telephone company in the western Great Lakes region, where no Iroquois nations historically resided.

" Also, it has been historically stated that Thomas never showed this poem to his father ; if so, it would seem that Thomas composed it more for his own benefit than his father's.

Rudyard Kipling dedicated a poem to these events, giving a not altogether historically correct view of them ( the poem was written approximately two centuries after the events ):

The Marmion family had been historically prominent in the midland counties of Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire for generations ; Marmion, the poem by Sir Walter Scott, concerns an ancestor of the same family.

The Heliand (; historically ) is an epic poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century.

One historically popular method is as a sonnet or other form of poem.

This star is historically the planet Venus, which was low in the sky at the time Whitman wrote his poem.

One of the more interesting documents in the Stiftsbibliotheck is a copy of Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae which contains the poem Is acher in gaíth in-nocht ... written in Old Irish.

An interesting, but doubtful, emendation makes this poem describe the nun of Shamal, a state in northwest Syria.

The magazine's editors described it as " the most passionate and interesting poem which came in — a poem recording through magnificent rhythms a profound and important and beautiful vision of the earth on which afternoons and men have always existed.

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.

What is most interesting about the poem, however, is not the fact that it depicts the city with photographic accuracy, but that it acts as a guide to the upper, and upper-middle class walkers of society.

Blunden's mention of Young's poem reintroduced an interesting, sometimes bombastic precursor to the early Romantics to students of English literature.

An interesting paradox is created within this poem.

Perhaps the most interesting lines in the whole poem are those where Rutilius assails the memory of " dire Stilicho ", as he names him.

Of the many interesting details of the poem, a few may be mentioned here.

The poem is in the form of a dream vision in rhyme royal stanza and is interesting in that it is the first reference to the idea that St. Valentine's Day was a special day for lovers.

* Wendy Cope's poem " Being Boring " quotes the Chinese curse beneath her poem title to emphasise her point-that being boring is much more satisfying than living in interesting times.

* An interesting and unusual example of poetic justice is found in Dr Pradhan's Sahitya Akademi award-winning poem Equation where the economic-sexual exploiters of poor tribals in Kalahandi, ( Orissa ) get paid back in their own coin when they get afflicted with various maladies and sexually transmitted diseases.

In 1817 he published a mock-heroic Arthurian poem entitled Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft, of Stowmarket in Suffolk, Harness and Collar Makers, intended to comprise the most interesting particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table.

Viewers of the programme can win one by either sending in an interesting letter, poem, picture or story, or by appearing on the programme.

In that it is one of the few locations mentioned by name in the anonymous medieval alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, it is interesting to compare the site's beheading history with the beheading game in the poem.

There are at least two formal elements of the poem that are interesting.

La Male Regle ( c. 1406 ), one of his most fluid and lively poems, is a mock-penitential poem that gives some interesting glimpses of dissipation in his youth.

He quotes scholar Eleanor Sickels as saying that the poem is about " the human tendency to wobble illogically in decision and later to assume that the decision was, after all, logical and enormously important, but forever to tell of it ' with a sigh ' as depriving the speaker of who-knows-what interesting experience.

This may be a small handmade item ; a container filled with dried flowers, seeds, bells, crystals, or other interesting objects ; a poem or picture tucked into a library book, etc.

In this sense, the work itself ( and every individual poem within ) is beautiful, a " work of art " due to its innovative, interesting form.

It is as interesting to modern readers as an anthropological document as it is a magnificent poem.