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Invictus. Portrait of William Ernest Henley by Leslie Ward, published in Vanity Fair, 26 November 1892. " Invictus " is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses, in the section titled "Life and Death ...
Ozymandias. " Ozymandias " ( / ˌɒziˈmændiəs / o-zee-MAN-dee-əs) [ 1] is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11 January 1818 issue of The Examiner [ 2] of London. The poem was included the following year in Shelley's collection Rosalind and Helen, A Modern Eclogue; with Other ...
In Flanders Fields. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poem begins in medias res or simply, "in the middle of things", a characteristic of the epics of antiquity. Although the poem begins with Beowulf's arrival ...
weak (or unaccented): a rhyme between two sets of one or more unstressed syllables. ( hammer, carpenter) semirhyme: a rhyme with an extra syllable on one word. ( bend, ending) forced (or oblique): a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. ( green, fiend; one, thumb) assonance: matching vowels. ( shake, hate) Assonance is sometimes referred to ...
He registered for his U.S. copyright in 1927 using the poem's first phrase as its title. The April 5, 1933 issue of Michigan Tradesman magazine published the full, original text on its cover, crediting Ehrmann as its author. In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, [ 1] now officially titled "Desiderata."
The "World Is A Family" verse of Maha Upanishad is engraved in the entrance hall of the Parliament Of India. [ 1] Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam ( Sanskrit: वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्) is a Sanskrit phrase found in Hindu texts such as the Maha Upanishad, which means "The World Is One Family". [ 2] The idea of the phrase remains ...
The English word epic comes from Latin epicus, which itself comes from the Ancient Greek adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos), [3] "word, story, poem." [4]In ancient Greek, 'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of the Delphic oracle, and the strange theological verses ...