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The song is sung in Clemens Klopfenstein's film Macao (1988). The song was also used in the Japanese TV show titled Otomen. The line "fall in love maidens" (Koi seyo otome) is used as the subtitle of the video game Sakura Wars 4. From the song, the phrase "Life is short, fall in love, maidens..." (Inochi mijikashi, koi seyo otome...
The original manuscript of the poem, BL Harley MS 2253 f.63 v "Alysoun" or "Alison", also known as "Bytuene Mersh ant Averil", is a late-13th or early-14th century poem in Middle English dealing with the themes of love and springtime through images familiar from other medieval poems.
A quintain or pentastich is any poetic form containing five lines. Examples include the tanka , the cinquain , the quintilla , Shakespeare's Sonnet 99 , and the limerick . Examples
“Karma takes all my friends to the summit.” — “Karma” “Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you.” — “22” “And if you’re ever tired of being known for who you ...
Hareut (friendship, fellowship, comradeship in English, here esp. brotherhood in arms) is a Hebrew poem written by Haim Gouri and set to music by Sasha Argov. The song was written a year after the outbreak of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and commemorates those who fell in the war. The song is often performed at memorial ceremonies.
Thereafter, Shostakovich was attacked in private letters by friends and colleagues, while being shunned in public by others. [34] [35] Krzysztof Meyer, who befriended Shostakovich in his later years, struggled to tactfully express his dislike of the Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva to the composer during a meeting at his home in 1974. Upon ...
Dargomyzhsky's setting of the poem. "I Loved You" (Russian: Я вас любил, Ya vas lyubíl) is a poem by Alexander Pushkin written in 1829 and published in 1830. It has been described as "the quintessential statement of the theme of lost love" in Russian poetry, [1] and an example of Pushkin's respectful attitude towards women.
These short poems typically address themes of love, grief, homeland, war, and separation. [1] The poetic form, traditionally sung aloud, was likely brought into Afghanistan by Aryan nomads thousands of years ago. "Landay," in Pashto, means "short, poisonous snake", likely an allusion to its minimal length and use of sarcasm.