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The relationships between men and women in our society are not healthy.” In 1981, Qabbani’s wife, Balqees, died in a bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, during the Lebanese civil war. The death of Balqees profoundly affected Qabbani’s psychology and poetry. He expressed his grief in an exceptionally moving poem titled Balqees.
Burton Watson comments on Li Bai's famous poem, which he translates "Bring the Wine": "like so much of Li [Bai]'s work, it has a grace and effortless dignity that somehow make it more compelling than earlier treatment of the same." [48] Li Bai's yuefu poems have been called the greatest of all time by Ming-dynasty scholar and writer Hu Yinglin ...
To the reading public she is known as the author of the poem "Mały szmugler" (The Little Smuggler), [6] written in the Warsaw Ghetto c.1941 and first published posthumously in 1947. The poem deals with the subject of a child struggling single-handedly to keep his family alive in the Ghetto by smuggling provisions from the "Aryan" side at the ...
Kathleen Tacchi-Morris (1899–1993) – British dancer, founder of Women for World Disarmament; Helen Thomas (1966–1989) – Welsh peace activist, died at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp; Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976) – British actress and pacifist; member of the Peace Pledge Union who gave readings for its benefit
An Ode on the Peace, 1783, [6] celebrated the end of the American Revolution; Peru, A Poem. In Six Cantos, 1784, [6] an epic poem that critiques European colonialism; Poems, 1786 [6] A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade, 1788 [6] A Farewell, for Two Years, To England, 1791 [6] "Ode to Peace," the Morning Chronicle ...
Thus, the ensuing confusion and chaos of the times gave way to themes of strong emotions such as regret over aging and sorrow over love, as many sought to express their mixed, complicated thoughts and harken back to the time of peace and stability. One of the most famous sijo poems that demonstrates such political upheavals and tensions of the ...
Scholar Kathy M. Essick calls most of the poems in Diiie Angelou's "protest poems". [47] The poems in the second section of Diiie, for example, are militant in tone; according to Hagen, the poems in this section have "more bite" [36] than the ones in the first section and express the experience of being Black in a white-dominated world. DeGout ...
The poem is one of Li's shi poems, structured as a single quatrain in five-character regulated verse with a simple AABA rhyme scheme (at least in its original Middle Chinese dialect as well as the majority of contemporary Chinese dialects). It is short and direct in accordance with the guidelines for shi poetry, and cannot be conceived as ...