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  2. Beat the Turtle Drum - Wikipedia

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    The latter title was changed for the adaptation due to concerns over potential audience confusion over the meaning of the phrase "turtle drum", which had been a line of poetry cited in the original book, credited to Ian Serraillier. The film was directed by Richard C. Bennett, and starred Melissa Sue Anderson and Katy Kurtzman. It was released ...

  3. List of Sydney Taylor Book Award recipients - Wikipedia

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    Modeh Ani: A Good Morning Book: Honor [5] Linda Glaser: Claire Nivola: Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty: Honor [5] Barbara Diamond Goldin: Jaime Zollars: Cakes and Miracles: A Purim Tale: Honor [5] Deborah Bodin Cohen: Shahar Kober: Engineer Air and the Sukkah Express: Notable Heidi Smith Hyde: Johanna van der Sterre: Feivel's ...

  4. The Dream (Dafydd ap Gwilym poem) - Wikipedia

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    The dream of the beloved was a motif used in another of Dafydd's poems, "The Clock". [9] It was famously the basis of Le Roman de la Rose , but is older than that. Such a dream, together with an interpretation by an old crone, appears in Walther von der Vogelweide 's Dô der sumer komen was , and as far back as Ovid 's Amores . [ 10 ]

  5. The Phoenix and the Turtle - Wikipedia

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    The poem, which has been called "the first great published metaphysical poem", [1] has many conflicting interpretations. [2] The title "The Phoenix and the Turtle" is a conventional label. As published, the poem was untitled. The title names two birds: the mythological phoenix and the turtle dove.

  6. Geumo Sinhwa - Wikipedia

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    Geumo Sinhwa (Korean: 금오신화; Hanja: 金鰲新話; lit. "Tales of Mount Geumo", "New Stories of the Golden Turtle", "New Tales Written in Mount Geumo") is a collection of novellas, written in Chinese characters by a Korean author Kim Si-sŭp (who was born during the reign of Sejong the Great).

  7. Gates of horn and ivory - Wikipedia

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    Lord Dunsany's poem "The Gate of Horn" in his 1940 book War Poems. The poem is about leaving his native Ireland and its false dream of neutrality in WW2 to volunteer in Kent to fight the Germans if they invade, and the hope of a true dream of victory. The Ivory Gate, a novel by Walter Besant, describing a solicitor with a split personality. The ...

  8. The Dream Songs - Wikipedia

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    The work follows the travails of a character named Henry who bears a striking resemblance to Berryman. But according to The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry:. When the first volume, 77 Dream Songs, was misinterpreted as simple autobiography, Berryman wrote in a prefatory note to the sequel, "The poem then, whatever its cast of characters, is essentially about an imaginary character (not the ...

  9. Aniara - Wikipedia

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    According to Ott and Broman, Aniara is an effort to "[mediate] between science and poetry, between the wish to understand and the difficulty to comprehend". [10] Martinson translates scientific imagery into the poem: for example, the "curved space" from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is likely an inspiration for Martinson's description of the cosmos as "a bowl of glass ...