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"Cold Iron" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling published as the introduction to Rewards and Fairies in 1910. Not to be confused with Cold Iron (The Tale). In 1983, Leslie Fish set the poem to music and recorded it as the title track on her fifth cassette-tape
Coldiron or cold iron or cold Fe may refer to: Cold iron, historically believed to repel ghosts, fairies, and other supernatural creatures "Cold Iron" (poem), a 1910 poem by Rudyard Kipling; Cold Iron, 2018; Cold ironing, the process of providing shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth "Cold Irons Bound", a 1997 song by Bob Dylan
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. [1] Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published.
Canon, Period, and the Poetry of Charles of Orleans: Found in Translation The University of Michigan Press (30 Nov. 2000) [9] ISBN 978-0472-111466. English Printing, Verse Translation, and the Battle of the Sexes, 1476-1557 Routledge (28 Feb. 2009) ISBN 978-0754656081
For Baudelaire, the setting of most poems within Le Spleen de Paris is the Parisian metropolis, specifically the poorer areas within the city. Notable poems within Le Spleen de Paris whose urban setting is important include “Crowds” and “The Old Mountebank.” Within his writing about city life, Baudelaire seems to stress the relationship ...
The poem's biting satire obviously overtly attacks Dr. Swift and his writings. It also actively accuses Swift of misogyny and sexism. Swift's poem was highly invasive as it chronicles the unwanted entry of a man into a lady's dressing room where he sees the woman no longer as an elevated goddess, but as a normal human being with normal bodily functions.
The poem follows a trope in African literature of "The White Man Laughed", which embodies the notion of dismay and cynical derision of the beliefs, practices, and norms of an African. [3] However, Okara's poem can be seen to transcend the acceptance of the derision of the White Man and present a wiser African intellectual.