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In addition to its inclusion among the many translations of Catullus' collected poems, Catullus 101 is featured in Nox (2010), a book by Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson that comes in an accordion format within a box. Nox concerns the death of Carson's own brother, to which the poem of Catullus offers a parallel. Carson provides the ...
High school class valedictorian Alem Hadzic was unusually somber before delivering his commencement speech on May 16. “People were coming over to wish me luck and I was kind of blowing them off ...
"Now, God be with you, my dear children; I have breakfasted with you, and shall sup with my Lord Jesus Christ this night." [11]: 22–23 [note 82] — Robert Bruce of Kinnaird, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (27 July 1631) Death of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden at the Battle of Lützen by Carl Wahlbom.
Longfellow wrote the poem shortly after completing lectures on German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was heavily inspired by him. He was also inspired to write it by a heartfelt conversation he had with friend and fellow professor at Harvard University Cornelius Conway Felton; the two had spent an evening "talking of matters, which lie near one's soul:–and how to bear one's self ...
'Regardless of what has happened to me,' she asserted, 'I show up, and I show out.'
Livingston's speech wasn't your traditional graduation speech, instead the poet performed a spoken word piece titled "Lift Off." In the poem, Livingston speaks of the history of injustice in the ...
A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
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