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Download as PDF; Printable version ... To Sleep" is a poem by William Wordsworth. Here, the speaker is someone who suffers from insomnia. He lies sleepless all night ...
In Other Places, poems about places and people encountered in his travels Quatrains , four-line poems on themes as diverse as insomnia and table manners Meditations of the Heart , ranging from admiration of the Russian dissident poet Irina Ratushinskaya to the title poem of the volume.
Other poems apparently alluding to the "midnight poem" include Elizabeth Bishop's "Insomnia" – whose first line fits the meter used in the Greek fragment, and which shares setting and tone with it – and H.D.'s "Night", which is thematically linked with the poem, also concerned with the passage of time and isolation. [39]
The Munich Mannequins" is a poem by Sylvia Plath which recounts Plath's experience of insomnia on a trip to the title German city. The poem is famous for its opening line and for referring to conservative Munich as the " morgue between Paris and Rome."
The Cure for Insomnia is a 1987 experimental film directed by John Henry Timmis IV, which was, according to Guinness World Records, the longest running film. [1] At 5,220 minutes long (87 hours, or 3 days and 15 hours) in length, the film has no plot, instead consisting of artist L. D. Groban reading his 4,080-page poem A Cure for Insomnia [2] over the course of three and a half days, spliced ...
Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems (edited by Lisa Russ Spaar) is a collection of over eighty poems by famous poets and writers like Walt Whitman, Emily Bronté and Robert Frost, all inspired by sleepless nights. Fifteen of the poems actually have "insomnia" in the title.
Currently, Spaar writes a series of articles entitled "Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry," published through the Los Angeles Review of Books. [32]Spaar has contributed more than 70 articles to the Chronicle of Higher Education, including the Monday's Poem series [33] and the Spaar on Poetry series.
Insomnia Poems is a one-hour work inspired by the Insomnia Poems of Steve Dalachinsky that was broadcast on BBC Radio 3's 'Jazz on 3' in March 2009. Wyer is the Associate Composer of the Orchestra of the Swan, Stratford on Avon.