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Supernatural Religion: An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels, originally published anonymously. Tales of the Dead, translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson, published anonymously. Tamerlane and Other Poems, the first published collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published anonymously. The Log ...
The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
Poetry Slam, Inc. was established on August 9, 1997 [2] to oversee and enforce the rules of the National Poetry Slam, which had been in existence since 1990. [1] On November 9, 1999, PSi became an Illinois Charitable Trust, and was granted tax-exempt status days later.
Frontier Poetry publishes much of its content online and boasts over 500,000 annual site visitors. Poetry, essays, interviews with important literary figures, craft essays, submission opportunities to other literary magazines and publications, book reviews by début authors such as Aja Monet of Haymarket Books, and literary and cultural criticism are consistent features.
The Postmodernism Generator is a computer program that automatically produces "close imitations" of postmodernist writing. It was written in 1996 by Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars. [1] A free version is also hosted online.
Thus as an oral tradition folk poetry requires a performer to promulgate it over generations. [4] The definition can also be extended to include not just oral epics, but latrinalia, many forms of childlore (skipping-rope rhymes, the words of counting-out games etc.), and limericks; [5] as well as including anonymous or improvised poems. [6]
Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the case of very old works, the author's name may simply be lost over the course of history and time. There are a number of reasons anonymous works arise.
The poem employs alliteration, anaphora, simile, satire, and internal rhyme but no regular end rhyme scheme. However, lines 1 and 2 and lines 6 and 8 end with masculine rhymes. Dickinson incorporates the pronouns you, we, us, your into the poem, and in doing so, draws the reader into the piece. The poem suggests anonymity is preferable to fame.