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.

Then we have surviving at least one instance of a poem prepared for another, in Naturam non Pati Senium, and perhaps also the De Idea Platonica.

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.

In the poem we recognize and acknowledge one man's sense of the world ; ;

There are also autobiographical sections in Alcuin's poem on York and in the Vita Alcuini, a Life written for him at Ferrières in the 820s, possibly based in part on the memories of Sigwulf, one of Alcuin's pupils.

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.

The poem is known to us only through one Vatican manuscript, and long escaped the notice of historians.

Anne expressed her grief for his death in her poem " I will not mourn thee, lovely one ", in which she called him " our darling ".

His monument is adorned by a poem written by Joseph Weigl, one of his pupils:

" And did those feet in ancient time " is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books.

Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

Opinion differs as to whether the composition of the poem is contemporary with its transcription, or whether the poem was composed at an earlier time ( possibly as one of the Bear's Son Tales ) and orally transmitted for many years, and then transcribed at a later date.

It was almost certainly written within three or four years of Columba's death and is the earliest vernacular poem in European history.

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

One of the earliest coinage of jianghu was by a dejected poet Fan Zhongyan ( 989 — 1052 ) in the Song Dynasty in his poem Yueyang Lou Ji ( 岳阳楼记 ), in which the context of jianghu was set out as distant to the courts and temples, meaning a world in its own right.

One of the earliest direct reference to Mabon can be found in the tenth century poem Pa Gur, in which Arthur recounts the feats and achievements of his knights so as to gain entrance to a fortress guarded by Glewlwyd Gafaelfawr, the eponymous porter.

The first clear reference to " rhymes of Robin Hood " is from the late-14th-century poem Piers Plowman, but the earliest surviving copies of the narrative ballads that tell his story date to the 15th century, or the first decade of the 16th century.

His earliest poem " The Thought Fox ", and earliest story " The Rain Horse " were recollections of the area.

The earliest attestation mentioned by the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is in fact T. S. Eliot, who between 1910 and 1916 wrote an early poem to which he gave the title " The Triumph of Bullshit ", written in the form of a ballade.

In Japan, the earliest unambiguous reference to a paper model is in a short poem by Ihara Saikaku in 1680 which describes paper butterflies in a dream.

Probably the earliest reference to coca in English literature is Abraham Cowley's poem " The Legend of Coca " in his 1662 collection of poems " Six Books of Plants ".

The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature.

Though the Metamorphoses did not suffer the ignominious fate of the Medea, no ancient scholia on the poem survive ( although they did exist in antiquity ), and the earliest manuscript is very late, dating from the 11th century.

The poem retained its popularity throughout Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and is represented by an extremely high number of surviving manuscripts ( more than 400 ); the earliest of these are three fragmentary copies containing portions of Books 1-3, dating to the ninth century.

The Völsung Cycle is a series of legends about the clan, the earliest extant versions of which were recorded in medieval Iceland, and is also the subject matter of the Middle High German epic poem Nibelungenlied.

The poem is one of the earliest attested examples of Old English and is, with the runic Ruthwell Cross and Franks Casket inscriptions, one of three candidates for the earliest attested example of Old English poetry.

The earliest reference to Arthur is in Aneirin's poem Y Gododdin ( c. 594 ).

Hall's earliest published verse appeared in a collection of elegies on the death of Dr. William Whitaker, to which he contributed the only English poem ( 1596 ).

The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation ; Bede attributes this to Cædmon ( fl.

The earliest version appeared in 1516, although the poem was not published in its complete form until 1532.

Although the earliest recorded evidence comes from a Welsh poem written by Gryffydd ap Adda ap Dafydd in the mid-14th century, in which he described how people used a tall birch pole at Llanidloes, central Wales.

Sextus is the earliest known source for the proverb " Slowly grinds the mill of the gods, but it grinds fine ", alluded to in Longfellow's poem " Retribution ".

The earliest references to pickled vegetables in East Asia is found in the Xin Nan Shan 信南山 poem of the Shi Jing ( 詩經 ), which uses the character 菹 ( Korean " jeo ", Mandarin Chinese " zu ").

The earliest known extant literary work in Malayalam is Ramacharitam, an epic poem written in the late 12th or early 13th century.