Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
His poems are known for expressing the humour in everyday life. Kolatkar is the only Indian poet other than Kabir to be featured on the World Classics titles of New York Review of Books. His first collection of English poetry, Jejuri, won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977. [2] His Marathi verse collection Bhijki Vahi won a Sahitya Akademi ...
The poem is an extended appeal from Lawino to Ocol to stay true to his own customs, and to abandon his desire to be white. The book also advocates for the African culture that has been lost by the educated elite. Lawino bemoans her husband's lack of African pride and she romanticizes all that is black. Lawino says "all that is black is beautiful."
This short and beautiful poem holds the key for leading a balanced life. It advises us to be humble and gentle yet strong. The song says, be humble like a blade of grass at the foot of the mountain and spread your fragrance like a gentle jasmine flower. The metaphor of gentle blade of grass at the foot of the mountain is very profound.
The ghazal[ a ] is a form of amatory poem or ode, [ 1 ] originating in Arabic poetry. [ 2 ] Ghazals often deal with topics of spiritual and romantic love and may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation from the beloved and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The ghazal form is ancient ...
All from that one beginning line, we had the start of a winter poem, a spring garden poem, a picnic poem (or a poem written by a mouse), and a short, decisive poem. All from kids who had most ...
Saadi Shīrāzī, [a] [1] better known by his pen name Saadi (/ ˈ s ɑː d i /; [2] Persian: سعدی, romanized: Saʿdī ⓘ, IPA: [sæʔˈdiː]), also known as Sadi of Shiraz (سعدی شیرازی, Saʿdī Shīrāzī; born 1210; died 1291 or 1292), was a Persian poet and prose writer [3] [4] of the medieval period.
Followed by. The Sun and Her Flowers. Milk and Honey (stylized in all lowercase as " milk and honey ") is a collection of both abstract fiction and non-fiction poetry and prose by Indian-Canadian poet Rupi Kaur. The collection's themes feature aspects of survival, feminism and relationships, and is divided into four sections, with each section ...
A Maze of Stars (Fanxing) and Spring Water (Chunshui), are two collections of poetry written by Bing Xin.They were both published in 1923 when she was 19 years old and directly inspired the poetic movement of short poetry (xiaoshi in classical Mandarin) that emerged after the May Fourth Movement and the New Literature movement.