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  2. The Ballad of Eskimo Nell - Wikipedia

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    There are multiple variations of the poem and some stanzas are left out of certain versions, but the basic narrative structure remains constant. It details the adventures of the generously endowed Dead-Eye Dick and his gunslinging sidekick Mexican Pete. Fed up with their sex life at Dead Man's Creek, they travel to the Rio Grande.

  3. Ozymandias - Wikipedia

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    The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.

  4. Because I could not stop for Death - Wikipedia

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    The speaker of Dickinson's poem meets personified Death. Death is a gentleman who is riding in the horse carriage that picks up the speaker in the poem and takes the speaker on her journey to the afterlife. According to Thomas H. Johnson's variorum edition of 1955 the number of this poem is "712".

  5. Poetry from Daily Life: What does a poem have in common with ...

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    Today’s column is written by David L. Harrison, host of Poetry from Daily Life. He lives with his wife Sandy, a retired school counselor and businesswoman, in Springfield, Missouri. This is the ...

  6. Poetry from Daily Life: Let your poem be imperfect and ... - AOL

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    Silence the inner critic, says New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp, who recommends writing for yourself, without judgment.

  7. You're Only Old Once! - Wikipedia

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    To pass the time, he began sketching images of hospital machines and scenes of medical procedures. He later began to work those ideas into a book. Geisel quipped that he was "fed up with a social life consisting entirely of doctors". [2] You're Only Old Once! was Seuss's first adult book since The Seven Lady Godivas, which was published in 1939.

  8. Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in ... - AOL

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    Prior to 1939, the record number of Black votes cast in a Miami city primary was 150. The day after the Klan parade, more than 1,400 Black voters cast their ballots. | Opinion

  9. The Waste Land - Wikipedia

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    The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...