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It is the fourth poem of the section "Tableaux Parisiens", and the first in a series of three poems dedicated to Victor Hugo. It is the second poem of the section named after one of its characters. The Swan is also the only poem of this section to feature a titular non-human protagonist. [1]
The poem opens by describing the flight of three swan-maidens identified in stanza 1 as meyjar, drósir, alvitr and suðrœnar ('young women, stately women, foreign beings, southerners') to a 'sævar strǫnd' ('lake/sea-shore') where they meet the three brothers Egill, Slagfiðr and Vǫlundr. Each maid takes one of the brothers as her own.
It was the first collection of poems to win the Guardian First Book Award, [5] and also won a Somerset Maugham Award [6] and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. [ 7 ] His second collection, playtime , was published by Jonathan Cape in 2018, and won the inaugural Polari Prize . [ 8 ]
The Swan; Poetry 1916 Fruit-Gathering (poems translated by Tagore from Gitali, Gitimalya, Balaka, Utsarga, Katha, Kheya, Smarana, Chitra etc.) [Poetry 4] Poetry 1916 Stray Birds (325 epigrams) [Poetry 5] Novel 1916 Chaturanga: Chaturanga [Novels 7] Quartet [Novels 3] Broken Ties [17] [Stories 7] Novel 1916 Ghare Baire: The Home and the World ...
Anna Seward [3] (12 December 1742 [notes 1] [4] [5] [notes 2] – 25 March 1809) was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive views on female education .
The Hamsa Sandesha (Sanskrit: हंससन्देश; IAST: Hamsasandeśa) or "The message of the Swan" is a Sanskrit love poem written by Vedanta Desika in the 13th century CE. A short lyric poem of 110 verses, it describes how Rama , hero of the Ramayana epic, sends a message via a swan to his beloved wife, Sita , who has been abducted ...
Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. His religious poetry appeared in Silex Scintillans in 1650, with a second part in 1655. [1] In 1646 his Poems, with the Tenth Satire of Juvenal Englished was published.
Exeter Book Riddle 7 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) [1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book, in this case on folio 103r. The solution is believed to be 'swan' and the riddle is noted as being one of the Old English riddles whose solution is most widely agreed on. [2]