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A Wikipedia parody has appeared twice, first called "Wonkypedia", and then "Wakipedia". Both entries featured a convoluted assortment of unrelated facts, in the style of an inaccurate or vandalized Wikipedia page (e.g. the "article" on Pearl Harbor discussed Mao Tse-Tung's surprise attack and how it led to the bombing of Chernobyl). Wonkypedia ...
Minnehaha is a Native American woman documented in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 epic poem The Song of Hiawatha. She is the lover of the titular protagonist Hiawatha and comes to a tragic end. The name, often said to mean "laughing water", literally translates to "waterfall" or "rapid water" in Dakota. [1]
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.
The primary objective of WikiProject Poetry is to provide comprehensive, accurate, reliable information, and other resources on poetry, poets, and various subjects related to poetry. These topics include biographies of individual poets, works of poetry, national poetries, poetry movements and groups, poetic genres, forms, styles, and techniques.
But, while this may represent the origin of the term's usage in modern English, the word "logopoeia" itself was not coined by Pound; it already existed in classical Greek. [ 3 ] Logopoeia is the most recent kind of poetry and does not translate well, according to Pound [ citation needed ] , though he also claimed it was abundant in the poetry ...
Destruction (band), a German thrash metal band; Destruction, a 1994 EP by Destruction "Destruction" (song), a 2015 song by Joywave "Destruction", a 1984 song by Loverboy featured in Giorgio Moroder’s restoration of the film Metropolis "The Destruction", a song from the 1988 musical Carrie
Cicely Fox Smith (1 February 1882 – 8 April 1954) was an English poet and writer. Born in Lymm, Cheshire and educated at Manchester High School for Girls, she briefly lived in Canada, before returning to the United Kingdom shortly before the outbreak of World War I.
George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935), who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (often written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism , and a central figure in the group of devotees of theosophy which met in Dublin for many years.