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Dream of the Red Chamber. Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone is an 18th-century Chinese novel authored by Cao Xueqin, considered to be one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It is known for its psychological scope and its observation of the worldview, aesthetics, lifestyles, and social relations of High ...
Maya Angelou ( / ˈændʒəloʊ / ⓘ AN-jə-loh; [ 1][ 2] born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning ...
Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem [1] and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States. [2]
Bloom indicates the poem is one of the very few in which Dickinson examined a current technology, and points out that its theme is the effect such a technology may have on the landscape and on people and animals. Bloom observes that the reader discovers the subject of the poem is a train by "seeing and hearing it, instead of being told directly ...
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman Gorman reciting "The Hill We Climb" at Joe Biden's inauguration Written December 30, 2020 – January 6, 2021 Country United States Language English "The Hill We Climb" is a spoken word poem written by American poet Amanda Gorman and recited by her at the inauguration of Joe Biden in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2021. The poem was written in the weeks ...
The line eventually became proverbial in French and was glossed with the alternative English proverb, "Might makes right", as its equivalent. [8] Ivan Krylov's translation of the French [9] was likewise close and has given the Russian language two proverbs. The first, "The stronger always blames the weaker" ("У сильного всегда ...
Reading of "Nothing Gold Can Stay". " Nothing Gold Can Stay " is a short poem written by Robert Frost in 1923 and published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in the collection New Hampshire (1923), [ 1] which earned Frost the 1924 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The poem lapsed into public domain in 2019. [ 2]
The first known video to have held the title of most viewed YouTube video was Under the Bridge! uploaded by jawed on June 11, 2005. By June 30, it had been viewed more than 24,000 times, being the only video on the site to have accumulated more than 10,000 views at the time. [ 69 ]