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This is a list of kigo, which are words or phrases that are associated with a particular season in Japanese poetry.They provide an economy of expression that is especially valuable in the very short haiku, as well as the longer linked-verse forms renku and renga, to indicate the season referenced in the poem or stanza.
Matsukaze (松風, Wind in the Pines) is a play of the third category, the woman's mode, by Kan'ami, revised by Zeami Motokiyo. One of the most highly regarded of Noh plays, it is mentioned more than any other in Zeami's own writings, [ 1 ] and is depicted numerous times in the visual arts.
The Wind Has Risen (風立ちぬ, Kaze tachinu) is a Japanese novel by Tatsuo Hori, published between 1936 and 1938, [1] and is regarded as his most acknowledged work. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The story is set in a sanitarium in Nagano , Japan, where the nameless protagonist resides with his fiancée Setsuko, who has been diagnosed with tuberculosis .
The poem was published on November 10, 1855, by Ticknor and Fields and was an immediate success. In 1857, Longfellow calculated that it had sold 50,000 copies. [6] Longfellow chose to set The Song of Hiawatha at the Pictured Rocks, one of the locations along the south shore of Lake Superior favored by narrators of the Manabozho stories.
The poem then details Parvati's childhood and her emerging youth. Once she reaches marriageable age, the sage Narada visits the Himalaya and predicts that she will win Shiva as her husband. Trusting this prophecy, Himalaya does not take much action regarding her marriage.
The exact chronological and interpretive orders of the six 1819 poems are unknown, but "Ode to Psyche" was probably written first and "To Autumn" last. [6] Keats simply dated the others May 1819. However, he worked on the spring poems together, and they form a sequence within their structures. [7]
"Spring" is a happily written poem with a hint of rhyme. Devoted to Blake's favorite things, each stanza describing a particular thing. The first stanza is about birds and a bush, the second a little boy and a little girl, and in the final stanza the lamb and "I". [ 3 ]
The Hounds of Spring is a concert overture for concert band, written by the American composer Alfred Reed in 1980. [1] Reed was inspired by the poem Atalanta in Calydon [2] (1865) by Victorian era English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, a recreation in modern English verse of an ancient Greek tragedy. According to Reed himself, the poem's ...