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J. Patrick Lewis (born May 5, 1942) is an American poet and prose writer noted for his children's poems and other light verse. [1] He worked as professor of economics from 1974-1998, after which he devoted himself full-time to writing.
"The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down" is a poem by Nigerian writer Gabriel Okara. It contemplates its speaker's feelings on having left Africa and its culture. [1] [2] Okara wrote the poem in 1959 after seeing snow for the first time in Evanston, Illinois, while he was studying journalism at Northwestern University and researching at the Atomic Research Station's Public Information Department ...
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter in the Rubaiyat stanza created by Edward FitzGerald, who adopted the style from Hakim Omar Khayyam, the 12th-century Persian poet and mathematician. Each verse (save the last) follows an AABA rhyming scheme , with the following verse's A line rhyming with that verse's B line, which is a chain rhyme ...
A Whale of A Time, poems selected by Lou Peacock Make it a ritual to read one poem every single day of the year thanks the 366 rib-tickling rhymes in this illustrated anthology that won a 2023 ...
Snowflakes, and snow in general, are actually able to make the world around them quiet too. The science of silent snowflakes: The most common type of snowflake, called a dendrite, has six "arms ...
The Snowy Day was adapted as an animated preschool Christmas special released on Amazon Prime on November 25, 2016. [25] The special is narrated by Laurence Fishburne and includes the voices of Regina King and Angela Bassett. [26] In it, an original song, "Snowy Day," was performed by Boyz II Men. [27]
The snowflakes represent the soldiers, melting together, forgotten. The Flemish clay is the Belgian soil where the fighting took place. Every snowflake is different so the snowflakes also represent how every soldier in the war was different. This poem is included in the AQA GCSE Poetry Anthology "Moon on the Tides" for 2010 and 2011.
Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen (little snowflake, white little skirt) is a German Christmas carol. The original version comes from Hedwig Haberkern (1837–1901), who published the song in her first book in 1869. [1]