Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The simile "quiet as a nun / Breathless with adoration" is often cited as an example of how a poet achieves effects. On the one hand "breathless" reinforces the placid evening scene Wordsworth is describing; on the other hand it suggests tremulous excitement, preparing the reader for the ensuing image of the eternal motion of the sea.
Her poems continue the themes of mild protest and survival also found in her autobiographies, and inject hope through humor. [43] [44] Many of Angelou's poems are personal in nature, especially those in Diiie and Oh Pray, but the theme of racism and connected to it, liberation, is present in her poems and autobiographies. [45]
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
The first stanza is built upon even, soporific movement in which figurative language conveys the nebulous image of a girl who "seemed a thing that could not feel / The touch of earthly years". The second maintains the quiet and even tone of the first but serves to undermine its sense of the eternal by revealing that Lucy has died and that the ...
In preparations for a painting Rockwell would set up a scene, using his friends and neighbors, taking hundreds of photos until satisfied. Rockwell would produce sketches in charcoal, then oil sketches, before painting the final image. [2] Rockwell was paid $3,500 (equivalent to $41,085 in 2023) [4] for Saying Grace. [2]
The poem was published posthumously as "Hope" in 1891 "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" is a lyric poem in ballad meter by American poet Emily Dickinson. The poem's manuscript appears in Fascicle 13, which Dickinson compiled around 1861. [1] It is one of 19 poems in the collection, in addition to the poem "There's a certain Slant of light". [1]
The AOL.com video experience serves up the best video content from AOL and around the web, curating informative and entertaining snackable videos.
Jully Makini (also known as Jully Sipolo) (born c. 1953 (age 64 in 2017) [1]) is a Solomon Islander poet, writer and women's rights activist.The author of poems such as Civilized Girl (1981) and Praying Parents (1986), in June 2017 she received the International Women of Courage Award from the US Secretary of State for her work in promoting women's rights in the Solomon Islands.