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This makes the caesura arguably more important to the Old English verse than it was to Latin or Greek poetry. In Latin or Greek poetry, the caesura could be suppressed for effect in any line. In the alliterative verse that is shared by most of the oldest Germanic languages, the caesura is an ever-present and necessary part of the verse form itself.
Kim Ok was born in Jeongju, North Pyeongan Province, Joseon in 1896. In his childhood, he was trained in traditional Chinese classics in seodang (village school), and then enrolled in Osan School, founded by Yi Seung-hun, to receive modern middle school education.
Flen flyys (Middle English: "Fleas (and) flies") is the colloquial name and first words of an anonymous, untitled poem, written about 1475 or earlier, famous for containing an early written usage in English of the vulgar verb "fuck". [1]
Note that if this source text is not in English, it will have to be copied using the transwiki process. When The Nightingale Sings is a Middle English poem, author unknown, recorded in the British Library's Harley 2253 manuscript, verse 25.
Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is, among other stylistic features, a complex ...
The poem received national attention after it was illegally banned as part of the removal of Mexican American Studies Programs in Tucson Unified School District. [2] The ban was later ruled unconstitutional. [3] The verses are "frequently recited daily in high school," but ethnic studies teachers say it is not a prayer, but an "affirmation." [4]
The Columbiad (1807) is a philosophical epic poem by the American diplomat and man of letters Joel Barlow. It grew out of Barlow's earlier poem The Vision of Columbus (1787). Intended as a national epic for the United States, it was popular with the reading public and compared with Homer, Virgil and Milton. [citation needed]
The poem survives in only one manuscript, the early 15th-century Gonville and Caius MS 175, which also includes the romances Richard Coer de Lyon, Sir Isumbras and Beves of Hamtoun. It has no title there. [6] Athelston was first printed in 1829, when C. H. Hartshorne included it in his Ancient Metrical Tales. [7]