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Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2] The same color may have very different associations within ...
Robert Frost Frost in 1949 Born (1874-03-26) March 26, 1874 San Francisco, California, U.S. Died January 29, 1963 (1963-01-29) (aged 88) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Occupation Poet, playwright Notable works A Boy's Will, North of Boston, New Hampshire Notable awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Congressional Gold Medal Spouse Elinor Miriam White (m. 1895; died 1938) Children 6 Signature Robert ...
t. e. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse[1] are figures in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible, a piece of apocalypse literature attributed to John of Patmos, and generally regarded as dating to about AD 95. Similar allusions are contained in the Old Testament books of Ezekiel and Zechariah, written about six centuries prior.
The Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure in England. The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. [1] Written in ballad form, the work has been described as one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English ...
a red wheel. barrow. glazed with rain. water. beside the white. chickens. The pictorial style in which the poem is written owes much to the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and the precisionist style of Charles Sheeler, an American photographer-painter whom Williams met shortly before composing the poem. [2] The poem represents an early stage in ...
Berlin and Kay identified eleven possible basic color categories: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray. To be considered a basic color category, the term for the color in each language had to meet certain criteria: It is monolexemic (for example, red, not red-yellow or yellow-red.)
For the synthpop band, see The Echoing Green (band). " The Echoing Green " (The Ecchoing Green) is a poem by William Blake published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. The poem talks about merry sounds and images which accompany the children playing outdoors. Then, an old man happily remembers when he enjoyed playing with his friends during his own ...
Jagannatha (Odia: ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ, romanized:Jagannātha, lit. 'Lord of the Universe'; formerly English: Juggernaut) is a deity worshipped in regional Hindu traditions in India as part of a triad along with his (Krishna 's) brother Balabhadra, and sister, Subhadra. Jagannath, within Odia Hinduism, is the supreme god, Purushottama, [ 1 ...