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Adds a block quotation. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status text text 1 quote The text to quote Content required char char The character being quoted Example Alice Content suggested sign sign 2 cite author The person being quoted Example Lewis Carroll Content suggested title title 3 The title of the poem being quoted Example Jabberwocky Content suggested ...
Pentreath saw the poem Time's Paces attached to a clock case in the north transept of Chester Cathedral where it is to be seen today. [1] Recently the poem was even set to music. [2] Pentreath quoted his version of the poem in his last sermon at Wrekin College, Shropshire where he was headmaster till 1952. [3] His version then entered the ...
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The Times Literary Supplement wrote of the volume: "The excitement is unequalled by any but a very few volumes of verse published these last few years. This is poetry written to be read aloud, to be relished for its information, to be taken to bed and read, like a detective novel, for the relaxation that comes from a good story well told...
A Poem a Day (1996), Steerforth Press; The poem features, in spoken form, on the album Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry (Part I), originally issued in 1960 on the Folkways Records label and has been used in British television advertisements, including those for Center Parcs and Orange Mobile. [citation needed]
The poem is about the contrast between these people and the gap that is developing between the rich and poor even in the USA which is meant to be a 'democracy'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The description of the couple as "Beautiful People" is perhaps ironic as the term was first used to describe those had held countercultural ideals during the 1960s. [ 2 ]
The poem's references can be overly obscure because of the many specific Cambridgeshire locations (such as "Haslingfield and Coton") and English traditions to which the poem refers. Some, including George Orwell , have seen it as sentimentally nostalgic, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] while others have recognised its satiric and sometimes cruel humour.
A golden shovel is a poetic form in which the last word of each line forms a second, pre-existing poem (or section thereof), to which the poet is paying homage.. It was created by Terrance Hayes, whose poem "Golden Shovel" (from his 2010 collection Lighthead) [1] is based on Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" (which begins with an epigraph that includes the phrase "Golden Shovel").