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How Iron - Cold Iron - can be master of men all." He took the Wine and blessed it. He blessed and brake the Bread With His own Hands He served Them, and presently He said: " See! These Hands they pierced with nails, outside My city wall, Show Iron - Cold Iron - to be master of men all. " " Wounds are for the desperate, blows are for the strong.
There are more questions than answers in this new type of epic, where "an agnostic irony can easily find a place" while "the unbiased reader would be forced to recognize as concerned with the profoundest issues which confront humanity". [10] He concludes that if the poem is to be labeled a national epic, it is a "highly idiosyncratic" one. [9]
Being denser than the lithophiles, hence sinking lower into the crust at the time of its solidification, the chalcophiles tend to be less abundant than the lithophiles. [122] In contrast, gold is a siderophile, or iron-loving element. It does not readily form compounds with either oxygen or sulfur. [123]
The poem features prominently in Douglas Adams's novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in which the title character time travels to interrupt Coleridge's work on his poem "Kubla Khan". During a rambling dialogue intended to prevent Coleridge from unintentionally encoding in the poem information that could lead to the destruction of the ...
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Lux Aurumque ("Light and Gold", sometimes "Light of Gold") is a choral composition in one movement by Eric Whitacre.It is a Christmas piece based on a Latin poem of the same name, which translates as "Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly to the new born babe". [1]
In this the iron pot proposes a journey together to the clay pot, which is only persuaded by the stronger pot's offer to protect him. When they are jostled together on their way, the clay pot is shattered and only has himself to blame. 'Only equals should associate' is the conclusion.
Iron John: A Book About Men is a book by American poet Robert Bly. It is an exegesis of Iron John , a parable belonging to the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812) by German folklorists Brothers Grimm about a boy maturing into adulthood with help of the wild man .