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In that poem, the first "Rose" is the name of a person. Stein later used variations on the sentence in other writings, and the shortened form " A rose is a rose is a rose " is among her most famous quotations, often interpreted as meaning [ 1 ] "things are what they are", a statement of the law of identity , "A is A."
Messiah is a 'sacred eclogue' by Alexander Pope, composed in 1712. [1] It is based on the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil, and is an example of English Classicism's appropriation and reworking of the genres, subject matter and techniques of classical Latin literature.
The last words of the ode, potenti ... maris deo ' to the god who has power over the sea ' are found in the manuscripts and in the ancient commentator Porphyrio; nonetheless, Nisbet and Hubbard in their commentary (1970), following a conjecture of Zielinski (1901), [4] suggest that the original reading may have been potenti ... maris deae ' to the goddess who has power over the sea ', i.e. Venus.
Silvestri's wife Julie died from ovarian cancer in 2005 aged 36. A group of poems he wrote about their relationship, her death, and his grief, together with three poems by her and two by Whitacre, form the words of Whitacre's 2018 The Sacred Veil. [11] [12] [13]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Songs Sacred and Profane is a song cycle for voice and piano ... It consists of settings of six poems by ...
The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. [1] The work sets four poems ("Easter" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems.
Sri Aurobindo composed his poem over a long period of time. At first he worked on the narrative of Savitri as such, with the first manuscript dating back to 1916. Around 1930 he began turning it into an epic with a larger scope and deeper meaning. It now became his major literary work and he continued to expand and perfect it until his last days.
Hart was born on 5 July 1954 to James Henry Hart and his wife, Rosina Mary Wooton. [2] Hart's family moved to Brisbane, Australia, in 1966. [3] Hart attended secondary school at Oxley State High School, [3] and gained his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the Australian National University. [4]