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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    The video for "November Rain" is loosely based on the short story "Without You". Axl Rose wrote the introduction to James's 1995 collection The Language of Fear, which included "Without You". [157] [158] "The Odyssey" The Odyssey: Symphony X: The Odyssey: Homer: A seven-part song based on Homer's The Odyssey [159] "Of Unsound Mind" Blessing in ...

  3. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine - Wikipedia

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    The opening couplet of the song paraphrases the song "Joe Hill" by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson, which begins with the lines "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night / Alive as you or me." [ 2 ] [ 7 ] "Joe Hill" was a folk song written as a tribute to the union organizer Joe Hill , who was viewed by supporters as a martyr after he was convicted ...

  4. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Uses of figurative language, or figures of speech, can take multiple forms, such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and many others. [12] Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature says that figurative language can be classified in five categories: resemblance or relationship, emphasis or understatement, figures of sound, verbal games, and ...

  5. List of works based on dreams - Wikipedia

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    In a tweet from July 2024, Drew Daniel of electronic music duo Matmos described a fictional music genre he encountered in a dream entitled "hit em". Recounted to him by a nondescript woman in the dream, the genre is a type of electronic music "with super crunched out sounds" in a 5/4 time signature with a tempo of 212 beats per minute.

  6. Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech: Full text - AOL

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    But it was Dr. King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech that immediately took its place as one of the greatest in U.S. history. SEE MORE: 8 Martin Luther King Jr. quotes that raise eyebrows instead ...

  7. Splish Splash (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Splish Splash" is a 1958 novelty rock song performed and co-written by Bobby Darin. It was written with DJ Murray the K (Murray Kaufman), who bet that Darin could not write a song that began with the words, "Splish splash, I was takin' a bath", as suggested by Murray's mother, Jean Kaufman.

  8. Cigarette Daydreams - Wikipedia

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    The official music video for "Cigarette Daydreams" was directed by Mark Pellington and released on September 5, 2014. [2] The video stars actress Juliette Buchs – who later became the wife of Cage the Elephant frontman Matthew Shultz – as a woman struggling to find peace in her life, interspersed with various scenes of her running away from ...

  9. Ah! Sun-flower - Wikipedia

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    As befits a song, there have been many musical settings of "Ah! Sun-flower". [60] The following are the most notable. Ralph Vaughan Williams included "Ah! Sun-flower" in his 1958 song cycle Ten Blake Songs. Benjamin Britten's song cycle Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (1965) includes a setting of "Ah! Sun-flower".