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The poem is dedicated to Auden's friends James and Tania Stern. It was first published in 1944 together with Auden's long poem, his Christmas Oratorio "For the Time Being" in a book also titled For the Time Being. [2] A critical edition with introduction and copious textual notes by Arthur Kirsch was published in 2003 by Princeton University Press.
The book begins with the subject of mirror reflection, and from there passes through symmetry in geometry, poetry, art, music, galaxies, stars, planets and living organisms. It then moves down into the molecular scale and looks at how symmetry and asymmetry have evolved from the beginning of life on Earth.
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... and other Modern Verse is a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award-winning [1] anthology of poetry edited by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith. Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, [ 2 ...
He coined the terms "flip words" and "toe-faced words" to describe mirror reflection words and puddle reflection words respectively. He also coined the terms "typoons" to describe free-form (non-linear) emoticons he has had in print since Title , "articles" to describe visual poetry collages, and has extended the meaning of the word "versicle ...
16th-century emblem books used illustrations in order to teach moral lessons through the picture alone, but sometimes found pictorial allusions to fables useful in providing a hint of their meaning. So in his Book of Emblemes (1586), the English poet Geoffrey Whitney gives to his illustration of the fable the Latin title Mediocribus utere ...
His essay "Where Mirrors Are Windows: Toward an Anthology of Reflections" (1989), and his commentaries in The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology (1967) and Folktales from India, [13] Oral Tales from Twenty Indian Languages (1991) are good examples of his work in Indian folklore studies. [6] [14]
"The Mirror" (Welsh: Y Drych) is a poem in the form of a cywydd [1] by the 14th-century bard Dafydd ap Gwilym, widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets. [2] The poem describes how Dafydd, languishing with lovesickness for an unnamed Gwynedd woman, is appalled by the wasted appearance of his face in the mirror. [ 3 ] "
Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1820 To -----, on her First Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn 1816 "Inmate of a mountain-dwelling," Poems of the Imagination: 1820 Vernal Ode 1817 "Beneath the concave of an April sky," Poems of the Imagination (1820); Poems of Sentiment and Reflection (1827 and 1832); Poems of the Imagination (1836) 1820 Ode ...