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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the debut novel by Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019. [1] An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother.
Send Me a Line When I'm Across the Ocean; Seven Seas (song) Seven Seas of Rhye (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay; Song to the Siren; Southern Cross (Crosby, Stills and Nash song) The Summer (Josh Pyke song) Surfin' U.S.A.
"By the Beautiful Sea" is a popular song published in 1914, with music written by Harry Carroll and lyrics written by Harold R. Atteridge. [1] The melody was composed on the terrace of Reisenweber's Brighton Beach Casino .
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"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" used as an interval signal during a 1962 Voice of America broadcast from Tangier, Morocco. According to William Studwell, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" is the "oldest well-known song of entirely American origin which could, by style or content, qualify as a national anthem". [10]
Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of the beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words.The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by J. R. R. Tolkien, [1] during the mid-20th century and derives from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ) 'voice, sound' and αἰσθητική (aisthētikḗ) 'aesthetics'.
However, the word "sea" can also be used for many specific, much smaller bodies of seawater, such as the North Sea or the Red Sea. There is no sharp distinction between seas and oceans, though generally seas are smaller, and are often partly (as marginal seas or particularly as a mediterranean sea) or wholly (as inland seas) enclosed by land. [2]
Ocean of Words is a short story collection by Ha Jin. It is his first published book. The stories are set along the China-Soviet border in the 1970s after the nations split political ties. The collection won the 1997 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first work of fiction.