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Adil Jehangir Jussawalla (born 8 April 1940, Mumbai) is an Indian poet, [1] [2] magazine editor and translator. [3] He has written two books of poetry, Land's End and Missing Person.
Xu Zhimo (徐志摩, Wu Chinese pronunciation: [ʑi tsɿ mu], Mandarin: [ɕy̌ ʈʂî mwǒ], 15 January 1897 – 19 November 1931) was a Chinese romantic poet and writer of modern Chinese poetry who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. [1]
Bilbo's voyage to the Undying Lands is reminiscent of several other journeys in English literature. Scull and Hammond observe that Bilbo's Last Song is somewhat like Tennyson's Crossing the Bar (1889), a sixteen-line religious lyric (sharing some of Tolkien's poem's vocabulary) in which a sea voyage is a metaphor for a faithful death. [7]
Here is a compiled list of quotes about friends and friendship: 50 friendship quotes "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside." – Winnie the Pooh
According to Wolf Ehrlich, Yesenin's final poem, Goodbye my friend, goodbye (До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья), was written by him the day before he died. Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write with his own blood.
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In addition to its inclusion among the many translations of Catullus' collected poems, Catullus 101 is featured in Nox (2010), a book by Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson that comes in an accordion format within a box. Nox concerns the death of Carson's own brother, to which the poem of Catullus offers a parallel. Carson provides the ...
"It's been so lovely chatting with you, but I've just realized I have yet to say hello to the host. Please excuse me." Or, if you're on your way out the door, "I'm so sorry to stop you, but I'm ...