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The heterodox ideas alluded to in these poems include a respect for all living beings that informed al-Ma'arri's veganism, a doctrine described by some of his biographers as Brahminism. He also advocated the Indian custom of cremation and appeared to espouse in Jain belief in final annihilation. [13] He also expressed his commitment to non ...
The collection contained sixty-eight short poems written in Crane's sparse, unconventional style. The untitled "lines", as Crane referred to them, were differentiated by Roman numerals and written entirely in small capitals. [3] Crane was 23 years old when the book was published. [4]
Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poem begins in medias res or simply, "in the middle of things", a characteristic of the epics of antiquity. Although the poem begins with Beowulf's arrival ...
"Through a Glass, Darkly" is a poem by American general George S. Patton, which explores Patton's strong beliefs in Christianity and reincarnation through stories of his previous lives and deaths in combat during historic battles. [1]
It has been proposed that this poem demonstrates the fundamental Anglo-Saxon belief that life is shaped by fate. [16] In The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism (1975), Eric Stanley pointed out that Henry Sweet 's Sketch of the History of Anglo-Saxon Poetry in W. C. Hazlitt 's edition of Warton's History of English Poetry (1871), expresses a ...
All three draw on the rich heritage of earlier poems and ballads set in the Yarrow Valley. "Yarrow Unvisited" is one of Wordsworth's most famous short poems, [1] and has been judged one of his finest. Modern critical evaluation of the two later works has been more mixed.
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]
Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.