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  2. Smoke-free bathhouse (Vysotsky's song) - Wikipedia

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    The poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, noticing the new social phenomenon, wrote a poem The intelligentsia sings blatnye songs, which, in particular, contained the lines: "Writers sing in Pakhra in their dachas, // even geologists and atomic scientists sing". The young Vysotsky, who made a certain contribution to the development of this genre, also ...

  3. Dramatic Lyrics - Wikipedia

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    Dramatic Lyrics is a collection of English poems by Robert Browning, first published in 1842 [1] as the third volume in a series of self-published books entitled Bells and Pomegranates.

  4. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - Wikipedia

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    "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death.

  5. Erlkönig - Wikipedia

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    The opening line tells that the time is late and that it is windy. As the poem unfolds, the son claims to see and hear the "Erlkönig" (Erl-King). His father claims to not see or hear the creature, and he attempts to comfort his son, asserting natural explanations for what the child sees – a wisp of fog, rustling leaves, shimmering willows.

  6. Taylor Swift Explains the Meaning Behind Several of Her ... - AOL

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    Taylor Swift is breaking down her Tortured Poets Department tracks. During iHeartRadio's premiere special in honor of the singer's 11th studio album, Swift herself provided insight into a few of ...

  7. My Last Duchess - Wikipedia

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    "My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologised as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics. [1] The poem is composed in 28 rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter (heroic couplet). In the first edition of Dramatic Lyrics, the poem was merely titled "Italy".

  8. I Am Going to the Lordy - Wikipedia

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    Sondheim has said that the use of the poem in the song was one of two times he had ever borrowed from another writer in his work, the other being the time he used lines from William Shakespeare in the song "Fear No More" from The Frogs. [5] Sondheim first learned of the poem from the short story by Charles Gilbert on which Assassins is based. [14]

  9. ‘Fortnight’ lyrics meaning: Taylor Swift just explained what ...

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    No, it’s not about the video game. “Fortnight,” the first single from Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” is a duet with Post Malone.. Before we delve into the lyrics, let ...