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The book shares its title with the popular video game Dance Dance Revolution.Hong explained in an interview, "I kept coming back to the broader concepts of the game, its phrasing, and realized the title was an appropriate fit for the narrative I was creating for my new collection.
On the Ning Nang Nong" is a poem by the comedian Spike Milligan featured in his 1959 book Silly Verse for Kids. [1] In 1998 it was voted the UK's favourite comic poem in a nationwide poll, ahead of other nonsense poems by poets such as Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear .
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing ...
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), American mill girl, contributor to Lowell Offering, publishing four books of poetry; Maria White Lowell (1821–1853), American poet and abolitionist; Eliza F. Morris (1821–1874), English hymnwriter; Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), Serbian poet; Emma Tatham (1829–1855), English poet widely admired in ...
Some poets chose to write poems specifically for children, often to teach moral lessons. Many poems from that era, like "Toiling Farmers", are still taught to children today. [3] In Europe, written poetry was uncommon before the invention of the printing press. [4] Most children's poetry was still passed down through the oral tradition.
A 70-minute stage musical version of the poem adapted by Peggy Harmon and Polly Pen was performed at the Vineyard Theater in New York City in 1985. [ 13 ] American composer Aaron Jay Kernis set the poem in 1995 for narrator and chamber ensemble, without alterations or abridgement, and with each syllable precisely notated.
The poet Qays [1] fell in love with his cousin Layla, but Layla had to marry another man: Qays went insane and retired to the desert, where he composed poems dedicated to the beloved Layla. [6] The couple united only after death. Nizami slightly modified the plot: Qays goes crazy with love, which leads Layla's parents to reject him.