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The section contains quotes from poems by Hallfreðr vandræðaskáld and Þjóðólfr of Hvinir. [23] The Nafnaþulur section of Skáldskaparmál includes Jörð in a list of ásynjur names. [24] Additionally, as the common noun jörð also simply means 'earth', references to earth occur throughout the Prose Edda. [25]
For this exhibit, Boozer used samples of excavated sedimentary rock and soil found at the nearby construction site of CityCenterDC, to recreate a geologically accurate linear progression of the earth below the gallery and city, by laying stratum after stratum in a narrow lengthwise band down the centre of the gallery floor.
This poem is the verse 40 in the Kuruntokai anthology. The image of "red earth and pouring rain" evokes pictures of the first monsoon rains falling on the red-earthed hills typical of the Tamil lands to mingle with the dry, parched soil forming a cool, damp clay, and of the flowers blooming in the rain.
The Eye of the Earth is a collection of poems by Niyi Osundare, published in 1986 by Heinemann Educational Books. The work was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the African poetry book category, and the Association of Nigerian Authors' Poetry Prize in its year of publication. The collection comprises nineteen poems that explore nature ...
The Holy Earth (1915) Wind and Weather (Poetry) (1916) Universal Service (1918) What is Democracy? (1918) Beginners' Botany (1921) The Apple-Tree (1922) The Seven Stars (1923) The Harvest: Of the Year to the Tiller of the Soil (1927) The Garden Lover (1928) The Horticulturist's Rule-Book; Farm and Garden Rule-Book; How Plants get Their Names
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
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Soil, also commonly referred to as earth, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms. Some scientific definitions distinguish dirt from soil by restricting the former term specifically to displaced soil.