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Her command of poetry had brought her international acclamation, Naidu's literary contribution, particularly for her poems with the themes like patriotism, romanticism and lyric for which she is called "Nightingale of India"—(Bharat Kokila) by Mahatma Gandhi. Her birthday is celebrated in India as National women's day. [4] [5]
It floats the length of the rusty chain, Like the weary march of the hands of time, That meet and part at the noontide chime; And the shore is kissed at each turning anew, By the drippling bow of the old canoe. Oh, many a time, with a careless hand, I have pushed it away from the pebbly strand, And paddled it down where the stream runs quick,
Together, via email, they formulated the following guidelines for this innovative genre of collaborative poetry writing: Each poet composes a poem on a title chosen by one of them and without any discussion as to the theme of the poem. The poems are exchanged and then have to be woven into one seamless, flowing piece that can stand on its own.
There is an active urge to capture the living breath of things, but he also allows sorrow into his poems." [2] Kate Kellaway of The Observer wrote "Human Chain is about inheritance – in the fullest sense of the word. If it were a poet such as Philip Larkin writing, human chain would mean "man hands on misery to man".
[2] Marilyn Hacker, who selected the book for the 2001 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, wrote in the book's introduction: "Perhaps it says something about the movement of American poetry that the stockyards and slaughterhouses choired in operatic open form by Carl Sandburg are rendered (a word that takes on another meaning in one poem) by Ted ...
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Robert Frost made use of Rubaiyat in chain rhyme form in his poem, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Chain rhyme also known as “chain verse or interlocking rhyme" is a type of poetic technique where the poet uses the last syllable of a line and repeats it as the first syllable of the line following. Although the syllable is repeated, it ...
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