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She made most of her 32 short films and one full-length film, Blue Black Permanent, in Orkney. She also wrote prose and poetry, self-publishing in 1959 and 1960 three books of verse— origins and elements , The Hen and the Bees , and Subjects and Sequences —and two of short stories, Lane Furniture: A Book of Stories and The Grassy Stories ...
The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna. Luna, working on canvas , spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid , where it garnered the first gold medal (out of three). [ 1 ]
Intertextuality is a hermeneutic means of discovering the meaning of the poem, which strictly regulates the ways of the reader's perception of poetic signs. As in the case of the semiotic phase of his understanding of poetry, Riffaterre's intertextual phase is more like a theory of the interpretation of poetry than a theory of poetry itself". [4]
"Lachin y Gair", often known as "Dark Lochnagar" or "Loch na Garr", is a poem by Lord Byron, written in 1807. It discusses the author's childhood in north east Scotland, when he used to visit Lochnagar in Highland Aberdeenshire. It is perhaps one of the poet's most Scottish works, both in theme and sentiment.
Lettrism is a French avant-garde movement, established in Paris in the mid-1940s by Romanian immigrant Isidore Isou. [1] In a body of work totaling hundreds of volumes, Isou and the Lettrists have applied their theories to all areas of art and culture, most notably in poetry, film, painting and political theory.
"Spoliarium" became the subject of an urban legend referencing Filipino-American actress Pepsi Paloma's rape case in 1982. The song's bridge mentions the names Enteng and Joey, which are nicknames for actors Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon , whom Paloma publicly accused of sexually assaulting her.
The majority of the riddles have religious themes and answers. Some of the religious contexts within the riddles are "manuscript book (or Bible)," "soul and body," "fish and river" (fish are often used to symbolize Christ). [16] The riddles also were written about common objects, and even animals were used as inspiration for some of the riddles.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly is also the name of a full length play and a one-act version by Celeste Raspanti. [5] She based the play on a book of poetry and drawings made by the children of Terezin. The play centers on Raja Englanderova, one of the children who survived Terezin, and her family, friends, and classmates.