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In 1901, Lazarus's friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was put on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. [4] On the plaque hanging inside the Statue of Liberty, the line "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), written in 1918 and first published in the Macmillan edition of The Wild Swans at Coole in 1919. [1] The poem is a soliloquy given by an aviator in the First World War in which the narrator describes the circumstances surrounding his imminent death.
The poem is often attributed to anonymous or incorrect sources, such as the Hopi and Navajo tribes. [1]: 423 The most notable claimant was Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905–2004), who often handed out xeroxed copies of the poem with her name attached. She was first wrongly cited as the author of the poem in 1983. [4]
The poem was first performed at the Six Gallery in San Francisco on October 7, 1955. [14] Ginsberg had not originally intended the poem for performance. The reading was conceived by Wally Hedrick—a painter and co-founder of the Six—who approached Ginsberg in mid-1955 and asked him to organize a poetry reading at the Six Gallery.
The first, consisting of 12 lines, was reprinted in the September 20, 1845, issue of the Broadway Journal and deals with the speaker's loss which leaves him with "a funeral mind". The poem, despite its many reprintings, never had any significant revisions. [43]
Poet Laureate of Kentucky Silas House recites a poem during the second inauguration of Gov. Andy Beshear at the capitol in Frankfort, Ky, December 12, 2023. (Silas Walker/swalker@herald-leader.com)
The Gold-certified “Take My Breath Away” sold over half-a-million copies and spent 21 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, hitting No. 1. It won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for Best ...
"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death.