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In 1964, the National Film Board of Canada released the award-winning 5-minute cartoon I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, directed by Derek Lamb. [ 12 ] Meredith Tax used this poetic form in her 1970 feminist poem There Was a Young Woman Who Swallowed a Lie , in which the woman finally "throws up" the lies she swallowed. [ 13 ]
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[1] [10] [30] — Grover Cleveland, president of the United States (24 June 1908), to his wife Frances "I am about the extent of a tenth of a gnat's eyebrow better." [12]: 18 [17] — Joel Chandler Harris, American author and folklorist (3 July 1908), on being asked how he felt "Never again allow a woman to hold the supreme power in the State...
–Donald Phillip Verene's summary and interpretation of the Wake ' s episodic opening chapter [30] The entire work forms a cycle, the book ending with the sentence-fragment "a way a lone a last a loved a long the" and beginning by finishing that sentence: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a ...
Arthur Rackham drawing for The gnat and the bull, 1912. Babrius recorded a variant story in which a gnat settles on a bull's horn but offers to fly off again if he finds it too much of a burden. [3] The bull replies that he is indifferent either way and the moral is much the same as in the contemporary Phaedrus.
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...
The poem makes extensive use of onomatopoeia and a simile that compares the behaviour of the amphibians to warfare ("Some sat poised like mud grenades") amongst other techniques. "Mid-Term Break" is a reflection on the death of Heaney's younger brother, Christopher, while Heaney was at school. [ 2 ]
that a worm swallowed the poem of a some person, a thief in darkness, a glorious statement and its strong foundation. The thieving stranger was not a whit more wise that he swallowed those words. A moth ate words. I thought that was a marvelous fate, that the worm, a thief in the dark, should eat