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  2. The Wind (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "The Wind" shows great inventiveness in its choice of metaphors and similes, while employing extreme metrical complexity. [9] It is one of the classic examples [10] [11] of the use of what has been called "a guessing game technique" [12] or "riddling", [13] a technique known in Welsh as dyfalu, comprising the stringing together of imaginative and hyperbolic similes and metaphors.

  3. The Windhover - Wikipedia

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    The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the wind as a man may control a horse. The bird then suddenly swoops downwards and "rebuffed the big wind". The bird can be viewed as a metaphor for Christ or of divine ...

  4. Anna Mae Aquash - Wikipedia

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    Lakota Woman-Mary Brave Bird's 1990 memoir (published under the name Mary Crow Dog). Having been a close friend of Aquash, Brave Bird dedicates the chapter "Two Cut-off Hands" to her friendship with Aquash and the events leading to her death. [65] Aquash is the subject of June Jordan's "Poem for Nana," from Passion, her 1980 collection of poems.

  5. Lyrebird makes amazing laser sounds - AOL

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    Its laser noise may sound threatening, but its beautiful tail and pleasant chirping show it means no harm. Wen Hao Lee told StoryFul that the "lyrebird was the most amazing songbird I had ever ...

  6. Zang Tumb Tumb - Wikipedia

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    The poem uses Parole in libertà (words in freedom; creative typography) and other poetic impressions of the events of the battle, including the sounds of gunfire and explosions. The work is now seen as a seminal work of modernist art , and an enormous influence on the emerging culture of European avant-garde print.

  7. 'The truth is, one nation under guns': Poet and activist ...

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    The post has been liked more than 700,000 times. Followers commended the poet for putting their feelings of grief, fear and anger into words. "Grateful for your words when words feel impossible ...

  8. Bird vocalization - Wikipedia

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    Famous examples inspired by bird song include the 1177 Persian poem "The Conference of the Birds", in which the birds of the world assemble under the wisest bird, the hoopoe, to decide who is to be their king. [161] In English poetry, John Keats's 1819 "Ode to a Nightingale" and Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1820 "To a Skylark" are popular classics.

  9. Choucoune (song) - Wikipedia

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    One of Oswald Durand's most famous works, the 1883 Choucoune is a lyrical poem that praises the beauty of a Haitian woman of that nickname. Michel Mauléart Monton, an American-born pianist with a Haitian father and American mother composed music for the poem in 1893, appropriating some French and Caribbean fragments to create his tune.

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