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[b] The poet's father, Telesicles, also distinguished himself in the history of Thasos, as the founder of a Parian colony there. The names 'Tellis' and 'Telesicles' can have religious connotations and some modern scholars infer that the poet was born into a priestly family devoted to Demeter.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...
Kaviraja Bankidas Ashiya (1771–1833) was a Rajasthani poet, warrior and scholar. He was born in a Charan family of Ashiya lineage in what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan. He was born in 1771 (1828 Vikram Samvat). He has composed between 1803 and 1833.
The Pashtun revolt in 1672 began under the leadership of the warrior poet Khushal Khan Khattak. The revolt was triggered when Mughal soldiers under the orders of the Mughal Governor Amir Khan allegedly attempted to molest and sexually touch a woman of the Safi tribe in modern-day Kunar. The Safi tribe retaliated and killed the Mughal soldiers.
The poet Luis Francia included Lacaba's work in a portfolio of Filipino poems for the 45th Issue of BOMB. [4] His work has been collected in two anthologies: Salvaged Poems (1986) and Salvaged Prose (1992). [5] Aside from his published works, the collection also features unpublished prose writings found in his filing cabinets in Pateros, Rizal. [6]
In writing a historical poem, poets have a slightly different responsibility than do historians. A modern historian is expected to present factually correct narratives. A poet who writes historical poems can adhere to this ideal, but may also use artistic license to communicate ideas beyond mere fact, such as mythical or emotional truths.
Clark further argues against an early composition date by exposing the contradictory descriptions of Byrhtnoth, both within the poem and against historical record. According to Clark, the poet of Maldon describes Byrhtnoth as an old warrior, but able-bodied (paraphrased); however, later in the poem Byrhtnoth is disarmed easily by a Viking.
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University.