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Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, [2] and has been described as a classic. [ 3 ] The anthology consists of 114 poems, including ones by Ezra Pound , Edna St. Vincent Millay and e. e. cummings , but also ones by lesser-known poets.
According to Angelou, the book's title came from the rent parties of the 1920s and 1930s, where people would pay the host an inexpensive entry fee and then eat and drink throughout the weekend. As she stated, people would "sing and swing and get merry like Christmas so one would have some fuel with which to live the rest of the week". [11]
For example, a golfer thinking too closely about their swing or someone thinking too much about how they knot their tie may find their performance of the task impaired. The effect is also known as hyperreflection or Humphrey's law [1] after English psychologist George Humphrey (1889–1966), who propounded it in 1923. As he wrote of the poem ...
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The UP Diliman has elevated Abad to the rank of University Professor, the highest academic rank awarded by the university to an exemplary faculty member. He currently sits on the Board of Advisers of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing and teaches creative writing as Emeritus University Professor at the College of Arts and Letters , U.P ...
Three Stories and Ten Poems is a collection of short stories and poems by Ernest Hemingway. It was privately published in 1923 in a run of 300 copies by Robert McAlmon's "Contact Publishing" in Paris. [1] The three stories are: "Up in Michigan" "Out of Season" "My Old Man" The ten poems are: "Mitraigliatrice" "Oklahoma" "Oily Weather ...
An RFU spokesperson said: “The ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ song has long been part of the culture of rugby and is sung by many who have no awareness of its origins or sensitivities.
The African Saga is a collection of poems by Ugandan poet Susan Nalugwa Kiguli. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Published in 1998, it won the National Book Trust of Uganda Poetry Award (1999), [ 3 ] It is a collection of 95 poems in four sections: “Poems of Protest”, “Relational Poems”, “Poems of Nature” and “Existential Poems”.