enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. pity this busy monster, manunkind - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pity_this_busy_monster...

    It is among his best-known poems. [2] The poem laments the triumph of progress—defined in terms of science and technology—over nature, describing progress as a "comfortable disease", and declaring "A world of made / is not a world of born". To Cummings, the "busy monster" is a society bent on subverting nature and individual humanity, the ...

  3. If We Must Die - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_We_Must_Die

    "If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...

  4. Not Now, Bernard - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Now,_Bernard

    The monster goes into the house and tries to attract the parents' attention but gets the same reaction from them, completely oblivious to the monster replacing their son. The monster lives Bernard's life, but more badly behaved, for the rest of the day and, at bed time, tries to tell Bernard's mother he is a monster, but she replies "Not now ...

  5. My 4-Year-Old Is Terrified of Monsters—I Asked a Childhood ...

    www.aol.com/4-old-terrified-monsters-asked...

    “Children typically start to fear monsters around the age of 3 to 4 years old,” says Burke. “This fear often coincides with a child's growing imagination and cognitive development, as they ...

  6. The dragon (Beowulf) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dragon_(Beowulf)

    The final act of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf includes Beowulf's fight with a dragon, the third monster he encounters in the epic. On his return from Heorot, where he killed Grendel and Grendel's mother, Beowulf becomes king of the Geats and rules wisely for fifty years until a slave awakens and angers a dragon by stealing a jewelled cup from ...

  7. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

    Other writers use the poem as a form, much like a sonnet, and create their own words for it as in "Strunklemiss" by Shay K. Azoulay [54] or the poem "Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly" recited by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1979 book which contains numerous other references and homages to Carroll's ...

  8. Grendel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel

    Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (700–1000 CE). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon), all aligned in opposition against the protagonist Beowulf. He is referred to as both an eoten and a þyrs, types of beings from wider Germanic mythology.

  9. Taylor Swift Wrote Poetry 'Even When She Shouldn't,' Former ...

    www.aol.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-wrote...

    In 2010, Swift revealed that she was inspired by the words of Dr. Seuss to take up her own poetry journey. “A lot of people who gravitate toward music are really, really sort of drawn to poetry ...