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"Ode to Liberty" is a poem written by Alexander Pushkin. [1] Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin publicly recited the poem, one of several that led to his exile by Tsar Alexander the First . Authorities summoned Pushkin to Moscow after the poem was found among the belongings of the rebels from the Decembrist Uprising (1825).
Ramesh Chandra Jha was born on 8 May 1928 in Fulwariya village of Sugauli in East Champaran district, known as Motihari, Bihar.His father, Laxmi Narayan Jha, was a well-known patriot and freedom fighter who fought against British rule and was arrested many times, including on 15 April 1917 when Mahatma Gandhi visited Champaran for his Satyagrah movement.
In 1919, Éluard wrote to Gala: "War is coming to an end. We will now fight for happiness after having fought for Life". Waiting to be sent home, he published "Duty and Anxiety" and "Little Poems for Peace". Following the advice of his publisher, he sent the poems to various personalities of the literary world who took a stand against the war.
For Australia and Other Poems is a collection of poems by the Australian writer Henry Lawson, published by Standard Publishing, Melbourne, in 1913. It includes a version of his famous poem "Freedom on the Wallaby". [1] The collection consists of 62 poems from a variety of sources. [1]
The poem became famous in the Arab world. For his portrayal of the Israeli soldier in this poem, Mahmoud Darwish was accused of "collaboration with the Zionist enemy." [ 10 ] The literary critics Yusuf al-Khatīb [ ar ] of Palestine and Raja'a an-Naqqash of Egypt differed in their views on the merit of Darwish's sympathetic portrayal of the ...
The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet. [13] The title of the poem and the first two lines reference the Greek Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a famously gigantic sculpture that stood beside or straddled the entrance to the harbor of the island of Rhodes in the 3rd century BC. In the poem, Lazarus contrasts that ...
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The poet Gwyneth Lewis sees the poem as "a hymn to the havoc that art can work in the world", [19] while for the scholar Helen Fulton the wind is a metaphor for "freedom and autonomy from the laws of governing society". [21] This political aspect of the poem is particularly apparent in lines 19–22 (13–16 in some editions):