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The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
The Magic Mirror belongs to the Evil Queen, who constantly asks it—usually in a rhyming phrase—who is the fairest in the land. When the mirror eventually identifies her young stepdaughter Snow White as the fairest, the Queen jealously tries to have her killed, first via her huntsman, then several personal attempts concluding with a poisoned apple.
In You Are Not Yourself, questions have been raised about the identity of the subject that Kruger hails: who is the "you" in question? You Are Not Yourself features a shattered mirror that has been interpreted to symbolize the reflection of each unique viewer, suggesting that the embedded message is directed towards everyone who views the piece ...
"The Mirror" (Welsh: Y Drych) is a poem in the form of a cywydd [1] by the 14th-century bard Dafydd ap Gwilym, widely seen as the greatest of the Welsh poets. [2] The poem describes how Dafydd, languishing with lovesickness for an unnamed Gwynedd woman, is appalled by the wasted appearance of his face in the mirror. [ 3 ] "
Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...
Mirror (Korean: 거울) is a poem written by the Korean author Yi Sang.It was published in the October 1933 issue of Catholic Youth (가톨릭 청년, Volume 5).Other works by Yi Sang that also explore the theme of mirrors include Crow's Eye View, Poem No. 15 (오감도 시 제 15호) and Bright Mirror (명경).
The poem is dedicated to Auden's friends James and Tania Stern. It was first published in 1944 together with Auden's long poem, his Christmas Oratorio "For the Time Being" in a book also titled For the Time Being. [2] A critical edition with introduction and copious textual notes by Arthur Kirsch was published in 2003 by Princeton University Press.
Mrs Bantry, standing nearby, notices a strange look cross Marina's face during Heather's monologue. A short while later, Heather collapses and dies. When Mrs Bantry recounts the events to Miss Marple, she uses lines from the poem "The Lady of Shalott" (in which a curse falls upon the poem's heroine) to describe the look she observed on Marina's ...