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  2. Fire and Ice (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "Fire and Ice" is a short poem by Robert Frost that discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate. It was first published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine [1] and was later published in Frost's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning book New Hampshire. "Fire and Ice" is one of Frost ...

  3. John Scott of Amwell - Wikipedia

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    The poem by which Scott is most remembered now is “The Drum” (Ode 13), an anti-war poem beginning “I hate that drum’s discordant sound” which was widely reprinted after its publication. [19] In England it was set as a vocal piece by Benjamin Frankel as part of his “8 Songs” (Op. 32, 1959), [20] and later by Christopher Dowie. [21]

  4. First they came ... - Wikipedia

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    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes the following text as one of the many poetic versions of the speech: [2] [3] First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

  5. Maxine Beneba Clarke - Wikipedia

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    Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction, plays and poetry. She is the author of over fourteen books for children and adults, notably a short story collection entitled Foreign Soil (2014), and her 2016 memoir The Hate Race, which she adapted for a stage production debuting in February 2024.

  6. Sonnet 145 - Wikipedia

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    Definitely, one can see an "erotic anxiety" in the poem's opening lines as the word 'hate' is spoken: "Those lips that love's own hand did make / Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate'" (Lines 1-2). Another building of an erotic anxiety is the steady list of body parts routinely named: lips, hand, heart, and tongue.

  7. The Beginnings - Wikipedia

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    "The Beginnings" is a 1917 poem by the English writer Rudyard Kipling. The poem is about how the English people, although naturally peaceful, slowly become filled with a hate which will lead to the advent of a new epoch. The first four stanzas have four lines each with alternate rhymes, while the fifth (and final) stanza has five lines.

  8. Anti-Scottish sentiment - Wikipedia

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    The poem was written by James Michie and published in The Spectator magazine in 2004 by Johnson, who was the editor of the magazine at the time. [44] In a 2007 obituary titled James Michie, gentle genius, Johnson dubbed Michie "one of the most distinguished poets and translators of the 20th century" and referred to "Friendly Fire" as an example ...

  9. Catullus 85 - Wikipedia

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    Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus for his lover Lesbia. Its declaration of conflicting feelings, "I hate and I love", is renowned for its drama, force and brevity. [ 1 ] The meter of the poem is the elegiac couplet .