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  2. The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast - Wikipedia

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    The Peacock 'At Home' was very popular and the 1809 edition revealed the author to be Catherine Ann Dorset. [1] The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is also the title of a 1973 picture book by Alan Aldridge and William Plomer, loosely based on the poem. This greatly expanded and altered the original work, focusing more on the animals ...

  3. Anthems in Animal Farm - Wikipedia

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    Animal Farm, Animal Farm, Never through me shall thou come to harm! But it is noted that it does not inspire the animals as much as "Beasts of England." Paul Kirschner writes that the switch from "Beasts of England" to "Animal Farm!" is a parody of the transition from Lenin's proletarian internationalism to Stalin's "Socialism in One Country". [5]

  4. Animal Farm (1999 film) - Wikipedia

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    Animal Farm is a 1999 political comedy-drama television film directed by John Stephenson and written by Alan Janes.Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Orwell and serving as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, the film features an ensemble cast including Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield, Charles Dale ...

  5. The Dance of the Peacock - Wikipedia

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    The authors have different outlooks towards life in their poems mostly because of the variation in their living environment and their age differences. The name of the book simply compares the poetry to the dance of the peacock. Most of the authors are Indian diaspora in UK, US and Canada. The writers are a mix of male and female. [4] [5] [6] [7]

  6. Old MacDonald Had a Farm - Wikipedia

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    "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (sometimes shortened to Old MacDonald) is a traditional children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer and the various animals he keeps. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. For example, if the verse uses a cow as the animal, then "moo" would be used as the animal's sound.

  7. The Peacock Skirt - Wikipedia

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    The Peacock Skirt was the second of ten illustrative plates published with the English version of Wilde's play. It shows a rear quarter view of a woman, Salome, wearing a long robe decorated with stylised peacock feather pattern. Her headdress is also decorated with peacock feathers, and more long peacock feathers drape down over her back.

  8. List of The Archers characters - Wikipedia

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    Brian's somewhat cavalier attitude to regulations came back to haunt him, when it transpired that in the 1970s he had taken money to allow the dumping of toxic chemicals on Home Farm land, which by the late 2010s had started to leak into the Am. Brian was prosecuted by the Environment Agency and forced to retire from active management of the ...

  9. Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island ...

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    The poem's final line has been hailed as one of the greatest lines in modern poetry. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 6 ] Although there were degrees of polarization about the line's abrasiveness, it has been credited as influential in the development of deep image and modernist poetry.