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Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur on June 6, 1925 in Philadelphia, the daughter of Jewish parents, and attended a Catholic kindergarten and primary school. She received her B.A. in 1946 and her M.A. in 1948 from Radcliffe College of Harvard University. In June 1946 she married Victor Kumin, a Harvard graduate and engineering consultant; they ...
The poems contemplate martial, masculine culture, fate, and old age from a critical standpoint. As with the other so-called 'saga englynion’ (pre-eminently Canu Urien and Canu Heledd), there is considerable uncertainty and debate as to how the poems of Canu Llywarch might originally have been performed.
Two contemporary composers are credited with writing music for this: as a catch by Samuel Webbe, [5] and as a glee by Luffman Atterbury. [6]James Orchard Halliwell later recorded a similar rhyme in his The Nursery Rhymes of England (London 1846) with the final line changed to "You cannot do better than to eat them yourselves". [7]
The poem describes the poet's idyllic family life with his own three daughters, Alice, Edith, and Anne Allegra: [1] "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with golden hair." As the darkness begins to fall, the narrator of the poem (Longfellow himself) is sitting in his study and hears his daughters in the room above. He describes them as ...
Song and Suang are two cities with royal rulers. When Suang attacks Song, the king of Song is killed, but the city is defended. The son who succeeds has two daughters, Phuean and Phaeng. When the king of Suang dies, he is succeeded by his son, Phra Lo, a man of "incomparable beauty." Princesses Phuean and Phaeng hear of Lo's beauty and fall in ...
Keira Knightley’s number one reason for having no more kids isn’t the pain of childbirth or the endless nights of disrupted sleep. On Monday, Dec. 9. the actress, 39, gushed about her two ...
Is 5 by E. E. Cummings, an example of free verse. Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme [1] and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech. Free verse encompasses a large range of poetic form, and the distinction between free verse and other forms (such as prose) is often ...
If he has two boys then that child must be a boy. But if he has a boy and a girl, that child could have been a girl. So seeing him with a boy eliminates not only the combinations where he has two girls, but also the combinations where he has a son and a daughter and chooses the daughter to walk with.