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A marriage in 18th-century Suzhou (from the painting Prosperous Suzhou). The four extant records are: "Wedded Bliss" (閨房記樂 guīfáng jì lè, "Record of Boudoir Music"), in which the author mainly puts the focus on his wife Chen Yun (陳芸), with whom Shen Fu fell in love when they were both young.
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
Alā yā ayyoha-s-sāqī is a ghazal (love poem) by the 14th-century poet Hafez of Shiraz. It is the opening poem in the collection of Hafez's 530 poems. In this poem, Hafez calls for wine to soothe his difficulties in love. In a series of varied images he describes his feelings.
However, Cupid "steals one (metrical) foot" (unum suripuisse pedem, I.1 ln 4), turning it into elegiac couplets, the meter of love poetry. Ovid returns to the theme of war several times throughout the Amores , especially in poem nine of Book I, an extended metaphor comparing soldiers and lovers ( Militat omnis amans , "every lover is a soldier ...
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Love That Dog is composed of multiple short chapters – each chapter is listed as a diary entry. As the novel develops and Jack's confidence grows, so does his literary style. He progresses from short and defiant sentences to more sophisticated poetry. Jack writes many poems, and eventually stops being anonymous.
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday as an experienced and intelligent politician, but said he did not believe Trump was safe after attempts on ...
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.