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I let every page be a completely different story, and then the poetry came out." [3] Burnham described his poems as "pretty literal", saying that Twitter had created a new "condensed, streamlined language" that forms a "new poetry" among his generation. He said, "I'm bored way too easily; I'm staring at screens half the day; I need to be ...
Song of Lawino, which is a narrative poem, describes how Lawino's husband, Ocol, the son of the tribal leader of their Acholi tribe, has taken another wife, Clementine, who is educated and acts European. Although Ocol's polygamy is accepted by society, and by Lawino herself, her description of his actions shows that he is shunning Lawino in ...
Wu formally accused him of treason and the assassination of Ming. Gaozong wanted to forgive Li Xián for treason, but Wu refused, saying, "Heaven and the world cannot stand the conspiracy against the Son of Heaven. How can he be forgiven? if you do not treat your loved ones with justice, how can you maintain order?" He surrendered at her ...
Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...
“Seeing Johnny Storm (if only for a short while) was like seeing someone you miss come back from the dead in a dream. Way too brief and too lovely to be real,” he wrote. “Goodbyes are hard.
Lines written in Commonplace Book of Miss Barbour, Daughter of the Minister of the U. S. A. to England "Child of my muse! in Barbour's gentle hand" 1829, August 1829, December 19 Song, ex improviso, on hearing a Song in praise of a Lady's Beauty "'Tis not the lily-brow I prize," 1830 1830 Love and Friendship Opposite
The trick isn’t in finding ideas, it’s in recognizing ideas that are all around us. Here’s one way to go about it. Since 2009, I’ve posted a new word on my blog on the first day of each month.
Named for Golden Sardine, a poetry book by Beat poet Bob Kaufman, the bar offers more than 40 Rieslings, mostly from Germany but also the Willamette Valley’s Love & Squalor and Santa Barbara’s ...