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Haiku. Haiku (俳句, listen ⓘ) is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan, and can be traced back from the influence of traditional Chinese poetry. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases composed of 17 morae (called on in Japanese) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern; [1] that include a kireji, or "cutting word"; [2] and a kigo ...
An idyll (/ ˈ aɪ d ɪ l /, UK also / ˈ ɪ d ɪ l /; from Greek εἰδύλλιον (eidullion) 'short poem'; occasionally spelled idyl in American English) [1] [2] [3] is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls (Εἰδύλλια). Unlike Homer, Theocritus did not engage ...
La Pucelle d'Orléans by Voltaire (1756) Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson (1760–1765) The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis (1765–1775) O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama (1769) Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill (1773) O Desertor das Letras by Silva Alvarenga (1774), a short mock-heroic epic.
Alone (Poe) "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. " Alone " is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.
Tanka. Hyakuninisshu 001. one of the poetry cards from the card game version of the Ogura Hyakunin isshu, a beloved complilation of tanka. Tanka (短歌, "short poem") is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. [1][2][3]
Truman reportedly responded by reciting lines from Burgess's poem. [9] "Purple Cow Creamery" is also the name of the creamery owned by Meijer stores which creates their Purple Cow brand ice cream. The Purple Cow brand started in 1934 and was an ice cream shop inside of Meijer stores starting in the 1960s. [10][11] The name is based on Burgess's ...
The earliest extant anthologies are the Shi Jing (詩經) and Chu Ci (楚辭). [2] Both of these have had a great impact on the subsequent poetic tradition. Earlier examples of ancient Chinese poetry may have been lost because of the vicissitudes of history, such as the burning of books and burying of scholars (焚書坑儒) by Qin Shi Huang, although one of the targets of this last event was ...