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The poem describes four people stuck at traffic lights in downtown San Francisco - two are garbage collectors and two are an elegant couple in a Mercedes. The poem is about the contrast between these people and the gap that is developing between the rich and poor even in the USA which is meant to be a 'democracy'.
Garrett Morgan. Garrett Augustus Morgan Sr. (March 4, 1877 – July 27, 1963) was an American inventor, businessman, and community leader. His most notable inventions were a type of three-way traffic light, [ 1 ] and a protective 'smoke hood' [ 2 ] notably used in a 1916 tunnel construction disaster rescue. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Morgan also discovered and ...
Poet Dylan Thomas c. 1937–1938. " Do not go gentle into that good night " is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [2] the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas visited Florence with his family.
Uncle Styopa in the 1939 Soviet animated film directed by Vladimir Suteev. Uncle Styopa (Russian: Дядя Стёпа, IPA: [ˈdʲædʲə ˈstʲɵpɐ]), also known as Dyadya Stepa, [1] Uncle Steeple [2] and Tom the Tower, [3] is a series of poems written by Russian children's poet Sergey Mikhalkov. They were written in trochaic tetrameter.
In a Station of the Metro" is an early work of Modernist poetry as it attempts to "break from the pentameter", incorporates the use of visual spacing as a poetic device, and does not contain any verbs. [3] The work originally appeared with different spacing between the groups of words. This can be found in the on-line version of Poetry magazine ...
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. [ 1 ] She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. [ 2 ][ 3 ] Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.
with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof. the prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head and was turning around, down ...
Hole in My Shoe. " Hole in My Shoe " is a song by English rock band Traffic featuring a spoken-word midsection by Chris Blackwell 's stepdaughter, Francine Heimann, in which she tells a little story about a giant albatross. It was released as a single in 1967 and reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, [3] number 22 in the German charts, [4 ...