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for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a 1976 work by Ntozake Shange. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the word choreopoem to describe. [ 5] It tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and ...
Power. Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Power Book IV: Force. Power Book II: Ghost, or simply Ghost is an American crime drama television series created by Courtney A. Kemp that premiered on September 6, 2020 on Starz. [ 1] The series is both a direct sequel and spin-off to Power . In December 2021, the series was renewed for a third season which ...
My Papa's Waltz" is a poem written by Theodore Roethke. [1] The poem was first published during 1942 in Hearst Magazine and later in other collections, including the 1948 anthology The Lost Son and Other Poems. [2] The poem takes place sometime during the poet's childhood and features a boy who loves his father, but is afraid of him.
Daguerreotype of the poet Emily Dickinson, taken circa 1848. " There's a certain Slant of light " is a lyrical poem written by the American poet Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886). The poem's speaker likens winter sunlight to cathedral music, and considers the spiritual effects of the light.
1820 cover of Prometheus Unbound, C. and J. Collier, London. " Ode to the West Wind " is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 in Cascine wood [ 1] near Florence, Italy. It was originally published in 1820 by Charles Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. [ 2]
Les Fleurs du mal ( French pronunciation: [le flœʁ dy mal]; English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire . Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist —including painting —and ...
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting. The poem is pastoral, and at times ...
Ode to a Nightingale. " Ode to a Nightingale " is a poem by John Keats written either in the garden of the Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, London or, according to Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown, under a plum tree in the garden of Keats' house at Wentworth Place, also in Hampstead. According to Brown, a nightingale had built its nest near the ...