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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Song Album Musical artist Literary work Author Comments Citations "7th Step" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter One: Deborah Pardes: Angela's Ashes: Frank McCourt [29] "40" War: U2: The 40th Psalm of the Book of Psalms from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament [30] "1984" Diamond Dogs: David Bowie: Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell

  3. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  4. Song of Roland - Wikipedia

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    The epic poem written in Old French is the first [1] and one of the most outstanding examples of the chanson de geste, a literary form that flourished between the 11th and 16th centuries in Medieval Europe and celebrated legendary deeds. An early version was composed around 1040 AD, with additions and alterations made up to about 1115 AD.

  5. Refugee Blues - Wikipedia

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    "Refugee Blues" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid-to-late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example, the meter he used in his love poem "Calypso", written around the same time.

  6. SongMeanings - Wikipedia

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    From the website, she chose the discussion on The Beatles's song, "I Am the Walrus", as an example, due to its cryptic lyrics. Barton quoted one of the comments from the website, which considered the song as a "philosophy of life", and that it was a song that was a prime example of one that "threw into disarray the import placed upon lyrics".

  7. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Wikipedia

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    Eliot wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" between February 1910 and July or August 1911. Shortly after arriving in England to attend Merton College, Oxford in 1914, Eliot was introduced to American expatriate poet Ezra Pound, who instantly deemed Eliot "worth watching" and aided the start of Eliot's career.

  8. Bayan Ko - Wikipedia

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    "Bayan Ko" (usually translated as "My Country"; Spanish: Nuestra patria, lit. 'Our Motherland') is one of the most recognizable patriotic songs of the Philippines.It was written in Spanish by the revolutionary general José Alejandrino in light of the Philippine–American War and subsequent American occupation, and translated into Tagalog some three decades later by the poet José Corazón de ...

  9. Song of Songs - Wikipedia

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    Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893. The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים ‎, romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.