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The image of Zhuang Zhou wondering if he was a man who dreamed of being a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming of being a man became so well known that whole dramas have been written on its theme. [25] In the passage, Zhuang Zhou "[plays] with the theme of transformation", [ 25 ] illustrating that "the distinction between waking and dreaming is ...
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942–1944 is a collection of works of art and poetry by Jewish children who lived in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. They were created at the camp in secret art classes taught by Austrian artist and educator Friedl Dicker-Brandeis.
Among the brief 17-syllable Japanese Haiku poems about butterflies, of which he translates 22, one by the Haiku master Matsuo BashÅ is said to suggest happiness in springtime: "Wake up! Wake up!—I will make thee my comrade, thou sleeping butterfly." Another compares the butterfly's shape to a Japanese silk upper-dress, the haori, "being ...
"To a Butterfly" is a lyric poem written by William Wordsworth at Town End, Grasmere, in 1802. It was first published in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807. Wordsworth wrote two poems addressing a butterfly, of which this is the first and best known. [ 1 ]
2003: Book With No Back Cover, David Paul Press; 2004: For the Living, (a collection of poems written between 1965 and 2000) Salt Publishing, reprinted by Shearsman Books; 2006: The Blue Butterfly (Balkan Trilogy I) Shearsman Books [16] 2006: Manual: The First 20, Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop; 2006: In a Time of Drought (Balkan Trilogy II ...
Birds, Beasts and Flowers is a collection of poetry by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1923. These poems include some of Lawrence's finest reflections on the 'otherness' of the non-human world. Lawrence started the poems in this collection during a stay in San Gervasio near Florence in September 1920.
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The poem also inspired the Butterfly Project of the Holocaust Museum Houston, an exhibition where 1.5 million paper butterflies were created to symbolize the same number of children who were murdered in the Holocaust. [3] The Butterfly has inspired many works of art that remember the children of the Holocaust, including a song cycle and a play. [4]