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The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
"The Old Woman and Her Pig" is a cumulative English nursery rhyme which originally developed in oral lore form until it was collected and first appeared as an illustrated print on 27 May 1806 as "The True History of a Little Old Woman Who Found a Silver Penny" published by Tabart & Co. at No. 157 New Bond Street, London, for their Juvenile ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Halfe's poetry reasserts the importance of women in Cree culture. Halfe works with Cree intellectual traditions in her poetry. [12] She tells women's stories to explore the link between creation and knowledge in Cree storytelling. [12] In The Crooked Good, Halfe explores Cree sacred history using a Cree feminist perspective. [12]
The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile" in the poem was the alliance between the parliaments of England and Scotland or the border between the two, depending on the source. "They all lived together in a little ...
The collection's seventh poem, "Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles Are Cracked and Crooked," is carved in full on the reverse side of the writer's gravestone. "The old men say young men in gray
The Mary Leapor window in Brackley Town Hall The Mary Leapor Memorial in the Lady Chapel of St Peter's Church Brackley. After the "centuries of neglect" recognised by Prof. John Clarke ("Yesterday's Brackley", Barracuda Books, 1990) in a chapter about Mary, a window, inspired by her work and based on a design by a local resident Carolyn Hunter, was created by stained-glass artist Rachael ...
Gwerful Mechain lived in Mechain in Powys.Little is known of her life, but it is generally accepted that she was a descendant of a noble family from Llanfechain. [1]Her father was Hywel Fychan of Mechain in Powys, [2] her mother was named Gwenhwyfar, and she had at least four siblings (three brothers and a sister).