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The poem Cat in an Empty Apartment comprises five strophes made up of a varying number of rhymeless, free verses. Gerhard Bauer describes the simple language as an " elegy in a child's tone". [ 2 ] There is often an antithesis between the pairs of lines, for example when in strophe two a sensory impression is followed by the negation of the ...
"A poor example" "The classic" "A good move" "Ah, those sensitive fingers" "How awful" "Compensation" "Side effect" "A la freud" "Don't breathe" "What a shame!" "Fit for his work" "The cost of ignorance" "The prospective widow" "The stars and stripes forever" "Forethought" "Music lover" "Too bad" "Slow but sure" "Valedictorian" "Ouch!" "Law ...
Kendrew Lascelles (pronounced Lassels; 20 September 1935 – 1 March 2022 [1]) was an English-born actor, performer and writer from South Africa. [2] His works are known for raising the profile of issues of major social conscience, particularly Apartheid and the Vietnam War.
"Abandoned Farmhouse" is an American poem in three 8-line stanzas, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.. First published in 1980 with Kooser's collection Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, [1] the poem uses open verse, simple diction and personification of inanimate objects to infer a family's story and possible reasons for their departure, through observation of ...
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, 1999; Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain, 1989; Hyakunin Isshū (13th century) (one hundred people, one poem), compiled by the 13th-century Japanese poet and critic Fujiwara no Teika, an important collection of Japanese waka poems from the 7th through the 13th ...
A Light in the Attic is a book of poems by American poet, writer, and musician Shel Silverstein. The book consists of 135 poems accompanied by illustrations also created by Silverstein. [ 1 ] It was first published by Harper & Row Junior Books in 1981 and was a bestseller for months after its publication, [ 2 ] but it has also been the subject ...
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"Transcription of Organ Music" is an account of a quiet moment in his new cottage in Berkeley, nearly empty, not yet fully set up (Ginsberg being too poor, for example, to get telephone service). The poem contains repeated images of opening or being open: open doors, empty sockets, opening flowers, the open womb, leading to the image of the ...