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Purple prose is characterized by the excessive use of adjectives, adverbs, and metaphors. When it is limited to certain passages, they may be termed purple patches or purple passages, standing out from the rest of the work. Purple prose is criticized for desaturating the meaning in an author's text by overusing melodramatic and fanciful ...
In a 1909 Happy Hooligan strip, a parrot repeats the phrase, to the titular character's annoyance.. The Peanuts comic strip character Snoopy, in his imagined persona as the World Famous Author, sometimes begins his novels with the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night."
"pyramid" – Lady in Purple "no more love poems #1" – Lady in Orange "no more love poems #2" – Lady in Purple "no more love poems #3" – Lady in Blue "no more love poems #4" – Lady in Yellow "my love is too" – Ladies in Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Brown "somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff" – Lady in Green
Beyond that, the race in this purple patch of a deep-blue state will address two broader questions. How much, in these fractious and deeply polarized times, are voters willing to look past party ...
The sequence was a watershed in English Renaissance poetry. In it, Sidney partially nativised the key features of his Italian model, Petrarch : variation of emotion from poem to poem, with the attendant sense of an ongoing, but partly obscure, narrative; the philosophical trappings; the musings on the act of poetic creation itself.
Evelyn Tooley Hunt (1904–1997), also known as Tao-Li, was a poet who was famous for writing the poem "Taught Me Purple" [1] which inspired the novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker. She also was one of the first Americans to use the Haiku poem style. She was born in Hamburg, New York and graduated from William Smith College.
The poem was adopted by the greeting-card industry, led by graphic designer and calligrapher Elizabeth Lucas. Joseph ascribed the popularity of the poem to Lucas. "To her business acumen and energy I owe a hospitable following in California and later throughout northern America, more social, as I said, than literary. [5]
Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist.. He was an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, and association with The Crowd literary group.