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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. Example: “A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll. Concrete (aka pattern): a written poem or verse whose lines are arranged as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic. Slam; Sound; Spoken-word; Verbless poetry: a poem ...
The gender of the Greek word limos can be either masculine or feminine. [4] The same gender uncertainty applied also to the personification, which could be considered as either a man or a woman. At Byzantium there was a statue of Limos as a man, while there was a painting of Limos as a woman at Sparta .
"Hunger" is one of the best known poems by the Indian English poet Jayanta Mahapatra. The poem is widely anthologised in Indian poetry collections. The poem explores the informal child sex trade in the social fabric. It was one of his "most quoted early poems." [1]
His writing, however, was very much influenced by his love of music. His poems are strongly rhythmic, often written in ballad form or original forms reminiscent of blues songs. Many are character sketches of inner-city African Americans. [4] A number of his poems have been set to music and recorded by Josh White, Al Haig, and Nina Simone. [5]
Hunger for Life was self-published, and initially received very little critical attention as a result. Later critics praised the previously undiscovered book, with Mischenko of ReadRantRock&Roll saying of it, " Hunger for life was an incredibly engaging read; the story was written well, descriptive and detailed, and the characters were all well ...
In the field of hunger relief, the term hunger is used in a sense that goes beyond the common desire for food that all humans experience, also known as an appetite. The most extreme form of hunger, when malnutrition is widespread, and when people have started dying of starvation through lack of access to sufficient, nutritious food, leads to a ...
Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement.His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), [1] which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, [2] and is a key text of the mythopoetic men’s movement.