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  2. Geese in Chinese poetry - Wikipedia

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    However, in poetry, the seasonal migratory flights of geese are used poetically in connection with the passage of the seasons: often poems use geese in connections which hint at what season it is by relating this to the direction which the geese are flying, north in spring for the summer and south in the autumn for the winter.

  3. Wild Geese (song) - Wikipedia

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    The date of creation of the lyrics are unknown. The inspiration for the poem is described in his memoirs The Wanderer Between Two Worlds: . I was lying as a war volunteer on the forest clearing plowed by grenades as I was a hundred nights before as a listening post and stared into the flickering light of the stormy night which was criss-crossed by the restless spotlights on German and French ...

  4. Wild Geese Descending on the Sandbank - Wikipedia

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    The tranquil and serene piece depicts the scene of wild geese flying and alighting by the water. The Qing dynasty Guqin Notation of Heavenly Sound Pavilion had an introduction: "Set against the clear autumn sky, the air is crisp and fresh, while the breeze remains calm, as does the sandbank by the water.

  5. Emily Lawless - Wikipedia

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    Lawless wrote nineteen works of fiction, biography, history, nature studies and poetry, many of which were widely read at the time. She is increasingly considered a major fiction writer of the late nineteenth century, and an early modernist innovator. She is often remembered for her Wild Geese poems (1902). Her books were:

  6. Poetry of Mao Zedong - Wikipedia

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    Also translated as Patio Spring Snow, Snow is Mao's most famous poem. [1]: 132 It was written in 1936 just after the Long March [44]: 40 when the communists had reached Yan'an. [1]: 133 He presented it to Liu Yazi, a poet whom Mao had met in Guangzhou in the early 1920s and who, like Mao, favored the traditional ci and lü forms. Through its ...

  7. Snow goose - Wikipedia

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    Snow geese are visitors to the British Isles where they are seen regularly among flocks of brant, barnacle goose, and greater white-fronted goose. There is also a feral population in Scotland from which many vagrant birds in Britain seem to derive. Around 2015, a small group of 3–5 snow geese landed on the north shore of O'ahu. They were seen ...

  8. Hai Zi - Wikipedia

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    Hai Zi wrote several long poems, "choral operas" and countless short poems in his brief life. His style is generally described as "anachronism". Many of his short poems contain symbolic images like Land , Sea and Wheat field and recall the ideals of the ancient Chinese pastoral poet Tao Yuanming .

  9. Han poetry - Wikipedia

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    The ruling dynastic family of the Han dynasty was the Liu family, founded by Liu Bang, whose career ranged from being a minor official (sort of like a local sheriff during the rapid disintegration and chaos of the final years of the Qin dynasty) to being an outlaw and a rebel hiding out in the hills, to being the King of Chu during the Division of Qin into 18 states, or kingdoms.