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  2. Widsith - Wikipedia

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    "Widsith" is located between the poems "Vainglory" and "The Fortunes of Men". Since the donation of the Exeter Book in 1076, it has been housed in Exeter Cathedral in southwestern England. The poem is for the most part a survey of the people, kings, and heroes of Europe in the Heroic Age of Northern Europe.

  3. Poetry reading - Wikipedia

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    Reciting a poem aloud the reciter comes to understand and then to be the 'voice' of the poem. [2] As poetry is a vocal art, the speaker brings their own experience to it, changing it according to their own sensibilities, [3] intonation, the matter of sound making sense; controlled through pitch and stress, poems are full of invisible italicized ...

  4. The Clown's Prayer - Wikipedia

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    The original author of this poem is unknown. There are several variations on this poem. Chris Farley (from Saturday Night Live and Tommy Boy) was known to have carried this prayer with him in his wallet. [1] [2] It commonly includes the following four verses: [3] [1]

  5. How Doth the Little Crocodile - Wikipedia

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    How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in chapter 2 of his 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice recites it while attempting to recall "Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts. It describes a crafty crocodile that lures fish into its mouth with a welcoming smile.

  6. You Are Old, Father William - Wikipedia

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    Like most poems in Alice, the poem is a parody of a poem then well-known to children, Robert Southey's didactic poem "The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them", originally published in 1799. Like the other poems parodied by Lewis Carroll in Alice , this original poem is now mostly forgotten, and only the parody is remembered. [ 3 ]

  7. On the Pulse of Morning - Wikipedia

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    The symbols in Angelou's poem (the tree, the river, and the morning, for example) paralleled many of the same symbols Clinton used in his speech, and helped to enhance and expand Clinton's images. [14] Clinton's address and the poem, according to Hagen, both emphasized unity despite the diversity of American culture. [12] "On the Pulse of ...

  8. The Hill We Climb - Wikipedia

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    The poem was also included in a Gorman's first published collection of poetry, titled The Hill We Climb, which was released by Viking Books for Young Readers in September 2021. [ 6 ] [ 34 ] The day after the inauguration, Change Sings , a picture book by Gorman then scheduled for publication by Viking in September 2021, and The Hill We Climb ...

  9. Pantun - Wikipedia

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    Pantun is a disjunctive form of poetry which always come in two parts, the first part being the prefatory statement called pembayang or sampiran that has no immediate logical or the narrative connection with the second or closing statement called maksud or isi.