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Groucho Marx claimed "My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty Days Hath September...', because it actually means something." [ 10 ] On the other hand, the unhelpfulness of such an involved mnemonic has been mocked, as in the early-20th-century parody "Thirty days hath September / But all the rest I can't remember."
"To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" [1] [2] is a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1785. It was included in the Kilmarnock Edition [ 3 ] and all of the poet's later editions, such as the Edinburgh Edition .
In the early morning of November 23, 1963, Sid Davis of Westinghouse Broadcasting reported the arrival of President John F. Kennedy's casket at the White House. Since Frost was one of the President's favorite poets, Davis concluded his report with a passage from this poem but was overcome with emotion as he signed off. [6] [7]
"The Autumn Wind" is a combination of musical score by Sam Spence and a sports-themed poem adapted for the 1974 Oakland Raiders season coverage by NFL Films President and co-founder Steve Sabol (1942–2012, son of founder Ed Sabol, 1916–2015).
November Woods is a tone poem by Arnold Bax, written in 1917.Ostensibly a musical depiction of nature, the work conveys something of the composer's turbulent emotional state arising from the disintegration of his marriage and his love affair with the pianist Harriet Cohen.
At the end of the song, Lennon sings the lines "Remember, remember / The Fifth of November", followed by the sound of an explosion. [7] The words are from the English nursery rhyme "Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November", [ 8 ] and refer to Guy Fawkes Night , a British public holiday that is celebrated with fireworks and bonfires. [ 9 ]
A poetry review in The New York Times called "Songs of the transformed" "a splendid series of animal poems ... [able] to capture the natural world and yet to manage to make a larger statement.", [1] and Manijeh Mannani of Athabasca University found that it "continue[s] the same thread of feminist concerns [of her previous poetry] with only the concluding poems of the collection reflecting the ...
Although Kenji did not intend to show Ame ni mo makezu to others as poetry, it has become his most widely known poem and is considered one of his masterpieces. This poem is part of the curriculum of Japanese school children. In November 1936, a poetry monument engraved with this work was erected in Hanamaki.