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"A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer.It is written to Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees, whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [1]
Poems such as 'the trick', 'speech balloon' as well as many other poems and books Imtiaz Dharker (born 31 January 1954) is a Pakistani-born British poet, artist, and video film maker. She won the Queen's Gold Medal for her English poetry [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and was appointed Chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2020.
You Alone Exist is a prayer poem describing the unlimited attributes of God. Dictated by Meher Baba during 1959-1962 to his close disciple Bhau Kalchuri, the prayer-poem expressively describes the all-pervading nature of God through many attributes, from simple to sublime.
The poem shows a surprisingly liberal attitude for its time, and espouses the belief that true worship is in the service of others. The angel is said to be a representation of God's omnipresence, which observes anything and anyone. Apart from the end rhyme scheme, Hunt uses alliteration to enrich the cadence of the poem. Some examples are:
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New England (published 1 September 1773) is a collection of 39 poems written by Phillis Wheatley, the first professional African-American woman poet in America and the first African-American woman whose writings were published.
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The poem has gained even wider exposure as a series of Internet memes, often accompanied by stereotypical depictions of Native Americans depicted as Noble savages. That it is continually misrepresented as Apache, Cherokee, or generic "Native American" is an example of both cultural misappropriation and modern fakelore .
According to Jeffrey S. Cramer the poem may have been written as early as 1936. [1] [3] Frost was a big lover of his country, and wrote many poems about American life, culture, beliefs, etc. "His poem, ‘The Gift Outright', reveals his patriotic fervor and presents the history of his country since the days of colonialism."