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  2. Albatross (metaphor) - Wikipedia

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    The Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band The Legendary Pink Dots references an albatross in the song "Twilight Hour", a song with strong reference itself to the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The Little River Band has a song called "Cool Change", which contains the line: "Albatross and the Whale are my brother".

  3. The Seafarer (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of 124 lines, followed by the single word "Amen". It is recorded only at folios 81 verso – 83 recto [1] of the tenth-century [2] Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry.

  4. Kenning - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of the kenning is known as its referent (in the case of whale's road, sea is the referent). Note that skyscraper is not a kenning, as it is not a circumlocution for a simpler term; it just means ' a very tall building '. Kennings are strongly associated with Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English alliterative verse.

  5. Fastitocalon (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Fastitocalon, the central character in the poem, is the last of the mighty turtle-fish. This poem is well known to the Hobbits. It tells of how Fastitocalon's huge size, a "whale-island", [5] enticed sailors to land on its back. After the sailors lit a fire upon Fastitocalon, it dived underwater, causing the sailors to drown.

  6. Cleanness - Wikipedia

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    Cleanness (Middle English: Clannesse) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl poet or Gawain poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Patience, and may have also composed St. Erkenwald.

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  8. Tom Selleck reflects on 15 years of “Blue Bloods”, recalls ...

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    It seemed like something needed to be said. I ended up saying a poem from Edna St. Vincent Mallay — "Love is Not All" — and that kind of started a discussion that lasted a couple hours. There ...

  9. Little Boy Blue (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...