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  2. The Emigrée - Wikipedia

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    The poem explores the memory of the speaker and their experiences in a faraway city they spent time in as a child. The narrator reminisces about the place through their childhood eyes, although we see conflict between this and their adult perception of her homeland. The narrator pictures in their mind the country or city where (s)he was born. [2]

  3. Nissim Ezekiel - Wikipedia

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    His poem The Night of the Scorpion is used [19] as study material [20] in Indian and Colombian schools. Ezekiel also penned poems in 'Indian English' [21] like the one based on instruction boards in his favourite Irani café. His poems are used [22] in NCERT and ICSE English textbooks. His poem 'Background, Casually' is considered to be the ...

  4. In the Bazaars of Hyderabad - Wikipedia

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    "In The Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a poem by Indian Romanticism and Lyric poet Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). The work was composed and published in her anthology The Bird of Time (1912)—which included "Bangle-sellers" and "The Bird of Time", it is Naidu's second publication and most strongly nationalist book of poems, published from both London and New York City.

  5. Night of the Scorpion - Wikipedia

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    Nissim Ezekiel's poem "Night of the Scorpion" presents a rural Indian village and its people. It came from a religious background and Ezekiel wrote this poem trying to give the impression of anger, but also an underlying message of motherly love, along with a hint of culture and superstition: After twenty hours it lost its sting. My mother only ...

  6. Idyll XI - Wikipedia

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    Idyll XI, otherwise known as Bucolic poem 11, was written by Theocritus in dactylic hexameter. [1] Its main character, the Cyclops Polyphemus, has appeared in other works of literature such as Homer's Odyssey, and Theocritus' Idyll VI. Idyll XI is written in the Doric dialect of ancient Greek. In that dialect, the Cyclops' name is "Polyphamos."

  7. Émigré (oratorio) - Wikipedia

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  8. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    [10] [11] Rather than relying on end rhymes, rap rhyme schemes can have rhymes placed anywhere in the bars of music to create a structure. [12] There can also be numerous rhythmic elements which all work together in the same scheme [ 13 ] – this is called internal rhyme in traditional poetry, [ 14 ] though rap rhymes schemes can be anywhere ...

  9. Émigré - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the nineteenth century Poland was occupied by the partitioning powers of Poland: Austria, Prussia and Russia.Poles struggled for independence in a series of failed uprisings, which resulted in many having to seek refuge in Western Europe (known as the Wielka Emigracja) in order to avoid reprisals, such as being forcefully sent to the vast and harsh emptiness of Siberia.