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In addition to its inclusion among the many translations of Catullus' collected poems, Catullus 101 is featured in Nox (2010), a book by Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson that comes in an accordion format within a box. Nox concerns the death of Carson's own brother, to which the poem of Catullus offers a parallel. Carson provides the ...
Catullus 5 in Latin and English. Catullus 5 is a passionate ode to Lesbia and one of the most famous poems by Catullus.The poem encourages lovers to scorn the snide comments of others, and to live only for each other, since life is brief and death brings a night of perpetual sleep.
Obituary poetry, in the broad sense, includes poems or elegies that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths. In its stricter sense, though, it refers to a genre of popular verse or folk poetry that had its greatest popularity in the nineteenth century, especially in the United States of America .
The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of the Sinosphere—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of Chinese history, Joseon Korea, and Vietnam. They tend to offer a reflection on death—both in general and concerning the imminent death of the author—that is often coupled with a meaningful ...
Merrill dates the poem to about 59 BC, noting the difference in tone from the "swift and brief-worded bitterness" that characterizes the poems written after the speaker had become convinced of Lesbia's unworthiness, and thinks this poem was evidently written in the time of temporary estrangement which was ended by the voluntary act of Lesbia.
Chief Inspector Morse, aided by Detective Sergeant (DS) Lewis, soon discovers a cryptic 'seventeenth-century' love poem by John Wilmot and a photograph of Rachel with a mysterious grey-haired man, clues which lead them to the prestigious Lonsdale College, where the rivalry between Julian Storrs and Dr Denis Cornford for the position of Master ...
But this is my just reward for my pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but only my duty to my Prince." [ 15 ] : 170–171 [ note 49 ] — Thomas Wolsey , English archbishop, statesman and cardinal (29 November 1530); to the Lieutenant of the Tower of London , after falling ill on the way to London under arrest for treason
Winged phallus (460-425 B.C.). Following the printing of Catullus' works in 1472, Poems 2 and 3 gained new influence [14] and ignited the dispute on the meaning of the passer, with some scholars suggesting that the word did not mean a sparrow, but was a phallic symbol, particularly if sinu in line 2 of Catullus 2 is translated as "lap" rather than "bosom".