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  2. Giglio Gregorio Giraldi - Wikipedia

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    Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus or Giraldus) (14 June 1479 – February 1552) was an Italian scholar and poet. He was born at Ferrara , where he early distinguished himself by his talents and acquirements.

  3. If I were God - Wikipedia

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    The tears are cried so that people can recognize, change, stop their gruesome actions and turn back. People could feel love if they wanted to see. Astrid Lindgren's poem is a poem of comfort and care. The author ends the text humorously. The last line reads: "so there finally would be quiet".

  4. To a Waterfowl - Wikipedia

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    The narrator is sure that God has led this waterfowl, and that the waterfowl had faith in the narrator. Now, the narrator's faith is strengthened. He knows that God is guiding him as well. [1] As the narrator sees God directing the waterfowl, the narrator is reminded of God's guidance in his own life. Through his observance in nature, the ...

  5. Life on Mars (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled." [ 3 ] Jollimore praised the poem "My God, It’s Full of Stars" as "particularly strong, making use of images from science and science fiction to articulate human desire and grief."

  6. The God Abandons Antony - Wikipedia

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    Midnight: The poem is set during the dead of night which is seen as peculiar for the ending of one's life as they are completely unprepared to accept or face their fate. [4] The invisible troupe: This is the symbol of an ominous message, the bad omen of the unavoidable end. It connects the poem with the story handed down to us by Plutarch. The ...

  7. Lactantius - Wikipedia

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    His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics. He is best known for his apologetic works, widely read during the Renaissance by humanists , who called Lactantius the "Christian Cicero ".

  8. A Question - Wikipedia

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    Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering. It portrays the fact that we live in suffering, and there is nothing we can do about it. Then the poem relays the question as to why we bear the unhappiness that is life, which makes readers think that Frost was heavily intrigued and curious about the "why."

  9. A Psalm of Life - Wikipedia

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    "A Psalm of Life" is a poem written by American writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, often subtitled "What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist". [1] Longfellow wrote the poem not long after the death of his first wife and while thinking about how to make the best of life.