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The poem Cat in an Empty Apartment comprises five strophes made up of a varying number of rhymeless, free verses. Gerhard Bauer describes the simple language as an " elegy in a child's tone". [ 2 ] There is often an antithesis between the pairs of lines, for example when in strophe two a sensory impression is followed by the negation of the ...
"A poor example" "The classic" "A good move" "Ah, those sensitive fingers" "How awful" "Compensation" "Side effect" "A la freud" "Don't breathe" "What a shame!" "Fit for his work" "The cost of ignorance" "The prospective widow" "The stars and stripes forever" "Forethought" "Music lover" "Too bad" "Slow but sure" "Valedictorian" "Ouch!" "Law ...
Kendrew Lascelles (pronounced Lassels; 20 September 1935 – 1 March 2022 [1]) was an English-born actor, performer and writer from South Africa. [2] His works are known for raising the profile of issues of major social conscience, particularly Apartheid and the Vietnam War.
"Abandoned Farmhouse" is an American poem in three 8-line stanzas, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.. First published in 1980 with Kooser's collection Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, [1] the poem uses open verse, simple diction and personification of inanimate objects to infer a family's story and possible reasons for their departure, through observation of ...
"Spirits of the Dead" was first titled "Visits of the Dead" when it was published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. The title was changed for the 1829 collection Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. The poem follows a dialogue between a dead speaker and a person visiting his grave. The spirit tells the person that those who ...
The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, but its genesis goes back to Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis.It turns out, she helped this melancholy Christmas ...
Downing Street and the Foreign Office are preparing to offer the incoming U.S. president an invitation once he is back in the White House, the report said, without citing specific sourcing. The ...
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, 1999; Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain, 1989; Hyakunin Isshū (13th century) (one hundred people, one poem), compiled by the 13th-century Japanese poet and critic Fujiwara no Teika, an important collection of Japanese waka poems from the 7th through the 13th ...