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An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...
Stanza 9 of the song has been translated: Now awful it is to be without, as blood-red rack races overhead; is the welkin gory with warriors' blood as we valkyries war-songs chanted. [2] The poem may have influenced the concept of the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. [3]
Macbeth, Op. 23, is a symphonic poem written by Richard Strauss between 1886 and 1888. [1] The work was his first tone poem, which Strauss described as "a completely new path" for him compositionally. [ 2 ]
Three Witches, MacBeth, by James Henry Nixon, British Museum (1831). The concept of the Three Witches themselves may have been influenced by an Old Norse skaldic poem, [5] in which twelve valkyries weave and choose who is to be slain at the Battle of Clontarf (fought outside Dublin in 1014).
An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands, and The End Of All Songs - Part 1: Spirits Burning & Michael Moorcock: The Dancers at the End of Time: Michael Moorcock: Three albums covering the three books of the trilogy. The Black Halo: Kamelot: Faust: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Black Halo is a concept album based on Faust, Part Two.
MACBETH. She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
The title of the poem is an allusion to William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth ("Out, out, brief candle ..." in the "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy). [4] Macbeth is shocked to hear of his wife's death and comments on the brevity of life; it refers to how unpredictable and fragile life is. [citation needed]