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The piece was originally intended to be Scriabin's eleventh sonata; [1] however, he had to publish it early because of financial concerns, and hence he labelled it a poem rather than a sonata. Like many of Scriabin's late works, the piece does not conform to classical harmony and is instead built on the mystic chord and modal transpositions of ...
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910), is a tone poem by the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin for piano, orchestra, optional choir, and clavier à lumières or "Chromola" (a color organ invented by Preston Millar, in fact rarely featured in performances of the piece, including those during Scriabin's lifetime).
The sacred fire of Vesta was a sacred eternal flame in ancient Rome.The Vestal Virgins, originally numbering two, later four, and eventually six, were selected by lot and served for thirty years, tending the holy fire and performing other rituals connected to domestic life—among them were the ritual sweeping of the temple on June 15 and the preparation of food for certain festivals.
The reviewer of The Age considered The Flame a collection apt for long-time fans, calling Cohen "always observant and amused, even when he is the butt of his own jokes" and finding "moments of brilliance and moments of beauty" in the book, with many poems and lyrics "that are comforting and familiar with their waltzy rhythms and mesmerising ...
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A heroic couplet is a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry, and consisting of a rhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter.Use of the heroic couplet was pioneered by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Legend of Good Women and the Canterbury Tales, [1] and generally considered to have been perfected by John Dryden and Alexander Pope in the Restoration Age and ...
Beaten by police before they extinguished the flames. Died in hospital. [146] [147] [148] June 15, 2011: Thomas James Ball: 58 United States: Father's rights and family court injustice: Self immolated on the steps of a family courthouse in New Hampshire. Died on the spot. [149] August 15, 2011: Tsewang Norbu: 29 Tibet: Political situation in Tibet
[6] [7] Among the borrowed lines from Chinese poetry (as translated by Graham) were those written by Li He, whose poem "Don't Go Out of the Door" contains the line "Witness the man who raved at the wall as he wrote his questions to Heaven" (公看呵壁書問天); [8] Li Shangyin, whose poetry contained the lines "watch little by little the ...