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  2. Ricaredo Demetillo - Wikipedia

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    He also published a play, The Heart of Emptiness Is Black, (1979); [10] [11] [12] a novel, The Genesis of a Troubled Vision (1976), [13] and literary criticisms, The Authentic Voice of Poetry (1962) and Major and Minor Keys: Critical Essays on Philippine Fiction and Poetry (1987). [14] Demetillo's Barter in Panay, an English language epic based ...

  3. Xenia (Greek) - Wikipedia

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    The initial gifts would serve as both object and symbol. Herman points out that these goods were not viewed as trade or barter, "for the exchange was not an end in itself, but a means to another end." While trade ends with the exchange, the ritual exchange "was meant to symbolize the establishment of obligations which, ideally, would last for ...

  4. Barter - Wikipedia

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    Other anthropologists have questioned whether barter is typically between "total" strangers, a form of barter known as "silent trade". Silent trade, also called silent barter, dumb barter ("dumb" here used in its old meaning of "mute"), or depot trade, is a method by which traders who cannot speak each other's language can trade without talking ...

  5. List of common misconceptions about arts and culture

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    The word jihad does not always mean 'holy war'; its literal meaning in Arabic is 'struggle'. While there is such a thing as jihad by the sword, jihad can be any spiritual or moral effort or struggle, [255] [256] [257] such as seeking knowledge, putting others before oneself, and inviting others to Islam.

  6. Rag-and-bone man - Wikipedia

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    Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (1888) includes a poem where the ragpicker character has a prominent role, entitled "Le Vin de chiffonniers" ("The Rag-Picker's Wine"). Francis Saltus Saltus ' Shadows and Ideals (1890) includes a poem about ragpickers entitled "The Old Rag-picker of Paris".

  7. Batter my heart, three-person'd God - Wikipedia

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    There is no scholarly consensus regarding the structure of Holy Sonnet XIV; different critics refer to particular parts of this poem either as an octave and a sestet (following the style of the Petrarchan sonnet, with a prominent example being Robert H. Ray's argument [4]), three quatrains and a couplet (the division established by the English sonnet, an example being an article by ...

  8. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.

  9. The Sea-Bell - Wikipedia

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    The Sea-Bell" or "Frodos Dreme" is a poem with elaborate rhyme scheme and metre by J.R.R. Tolkien in his 1962 collection of verse The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. It was a revision of a 1934 poem called "Looney". The first-person narrative speaks of finding a white shell "like a sea-bell", and of being carried away to a strange and beautiful land.