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Zelda's poetry is imbued with deep faith, free of the doubt and irony that sometimes permeates the work of other modern Hebrew poets. Her poems reflect her abiding faith – for example in Kaasher berakhti 'al hanerot – "When I said the blessing over the Shabbat candles" [6] (" כאשר ברכתי על הנרות ").
Lesbia and Her Sparrow (), by Sir Edward John PoynterLesbia was the literary pseudonym used by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 82–52 BC) to refer to his lover. . Lesbia is traditionally identified with Clodia, the wife of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher; her conduct and motives are maligned in Cicero's extant speech Pro Caelio, delivered in 56
Latin is an exact language for obscene acts, such as pedicabo and irrumabo, which appear in the first and last lines of the poem. The term pedicare is a transitive verb, meaning to "insert one's penis into another person's anus". [26] The term pathicus in line 2 refers to the "bottom" person in that act, i.e., the one being penetrated. [27]
Often ambiguous in any case, the meaning is made harder to follow because of the confusion over whether it is the voice of the narrator or the husband's inner dialogue we are hearing. [11] A further level of ambiguity occurs in the different linguistic registers of wording, often in close proximity to each other, which make the author's ...
Kusumagraj was born into a Deshastha Brahmin family [7] on 27 February 1912 in Pune as Gajanan Ranganath Shirwadkar. He even published some of his poetry under this name in 1930s.
Cadenus and Vanessa" is a poem by Jonathan Swift about one of his lovers, Esther Vanhomrigh (Vanessa), written in 1713 and published as a book in 1726, three years after the death of Vanhomrigh. [1] It contains in its title an anagram and a neologism: Cadenus is an anagram of the Latin decanus , meaning 'dean': Swift was dean of St Patrick's ...
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Her first marriage was to John Clapp in 1935, [4] and they had one daughter. [5] Her second marriage was to professor and poet Walter Stone, in 1944, [ 4 ] with whom she had two daughters. [ 5 ] Walter Stone, who served in World War II, received a PhD from Harvard, and taught at University of Illinois, and then at Vassar College. [ 6 ]