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The poem was then seen as a story in the 1910s, again, with the performer called 'Grimaldi', [49] and again from the 1930s, [50] featuring a clown called 'Grock', suggested as being the Swiss clown Charles Adrien Wettach. Alan Moore's 1987 graphic novel Watchmen includes the character of Rorschach telling the story and naming the clown as ...
He has also written a book of football poems, 50 Ways to Score a Goal (2021). His first novel, Diary of a Somebody (2019), was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award for First Novel, and his poem "Refugees" has been published as an illustrated book for children. [5] [6] In 2023, he published a book of "seasonally adjusted poems", And So This Is ...
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (1947; first UK edition, 1948) is a long poem in six parts by W. H. Auden, written mostly in a modern version of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The poem deals, in eclogue form, with man's quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and increasingly industrialized world.
"The Centipede's Dilemma" is a short poem that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome.The centipede effect occurs when a normally automatic or unconscious activity is disrupted by consciousness of it or reflection on it.
The poem has been noted as a cautionary tale for over-reliance on technology. [1] [4] Writing for ThoughtCo, Richard Nordquist described the poem as "an exercise in homophonous humor". [1] In Public Relations Writing, Donald and Jill Treadwell wrote that the poem has "humor that hits home for most professional writers". [4]
Little Willie rhymes are light verses including an indifferent or cheerfully inappropriate response to a gruesome act of violence in a quatrain form attributed to Harry Graham (1874-1936).
It starts with introducing Kristyna, who develops a romantic relationship with a student studying philosophy and poetry. Then, it explains the Czech word litost, which the author says cannot be accurately translated into any other language. Litost is, according to Kundera, "a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery."
Revolting Rhymes is a 1982 poetry collection by British author Roald Dahl.Originally published under the title Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, it is a parody of traditional folk tales in verse, where Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales, featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after finishes.