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  2. Pleiades in folklore and literature - Wikipedia

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    The Talmud (Berakhot 58b) suggests understanding ke' me-ah as kimah (כימה as כמאה) "about one hundred" stars in the Pleiades star cluster. Like most astronomical figures in rabbinic writing, the Jewish sages pointed to this as having come from Mount Sinai .

  3. History of poetry - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] Others, however, suggest that poetry did not necessarily predate writing. [7] The oldest surviving speculative fiction poem is the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor, [8] [better source needed] written in Hieratic and ascribed a date around 2500 BCE.

  4. List of poems by William Wordsworth - Wikipedia

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    Michael. A Pastoral Poem: 1800 "If from the public way you turn your steps" Poems founded on the Affections. 1800 The Idle Shepherd-boys; or, Dungeon-Ghyll Force. 1800 A Pastoral "The valley rings with mirth and joy;" Poems referring to the Period of Childhood. 1800 The Pet-lamb 1800 A Pastoral "The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink;"

  5. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain; the poem is characterized by having two refrains, initially used in the first and third lines of the first stanza, and then alternately used at the close of each subsequent stanza until the final quatrain, which is concluded by the two refrains.

  6. African literature - Wikipedia

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    Other themes in this period include social problems such as corruption, the economic disparities in newly independent countries, and the rights and roles of women. Female writers are today far better represented in published African literature than they were prior to independence (see Daughters of Africa , edited by Margaret Busby , 1992).

  7. Poet laureate - Wikipedia

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    A depiction of Torquato Tasso from a German encyclopedia, 1905. Note the laurel crown.. A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) [1] [2] [3] is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.

  8. Sijo - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to the structure of early sijo forms such as p’yong sijo, modern sijo sticks mainly to a freer and more fluid way of writing. This is a controversial take amongst the sijo community as some argue that modern sijo focuses “on the revival of sijo , but claim that its traditional fixed form cannot be preserved."

  9. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    Poetry analysis is the process of investigating the form of a poem, content, structural semiotics, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others' understanding and appreciation of the work. [1] The words poem and poetry derive from the Greek poiēma (to make) and poieo (to create).