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Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted readers around the world.. The late writer, activist, and poet had a penchant for capturing the most precious moments of human ...
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
She is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku). Some of Chiyo's most notable works include "The Morning Glory", "Putting up my hair", and "Again the women". Being one of the few women haiku poets in pre-modern Japanese literature, Chiyo-ni has been seen an influential figure. Before her time, haiku by women ...
He also wrote poetry in English. Travelling in a Cage (1980) was his first and only book of English poems. Exile, alienation, self-disintegration and death are major themes in Chitre's poetry, which belongs essentially to the Modernist Movement. It reflects cosmopolitan culture, urban sensibilities, uses oblique expressions and ironic tones.
Billy Corgan Wrote and performed the song "Half-Life of an Autodidact" on his album Ogilala, apparently referencing himself in the song. Vincent Willem van Gogh was a mostly self-taught painter. [17] Clark Ashton Smith, self-taught poet and fantasy author. George Orwell, English novelist, essayist and journalist.
The "self" serves as a human ideal; in contrast to the archetypal self in epic poetry, this self is one of the common people rather than a hero. [10] Nevertheless, Whitman locates heroism in every individual as an expression of the whole (the "leaf" among the "grass").
Published in 1915, Asrar-i-Khudi (Secrets of the Self) was the first poetry book of Iqbal. Considered by many to be Iqbal's best book of poetry, it is concerned with the philosophy of religion . In a letter to the poet Ghulam Qadir Girami (d.1345/1927), [ 2 ] Iqbal wrote, "The ideas behind the verses had never been expressed before either in ...
At the entrance of the street is an arch adorned with the poet's quotes and on the end of it is a statue of al-Mutanabbi that overlooks the Tigris River. Over time, al-Mutanabbi Street evolved into a symbol of intellectual freedom, attracting writers, artists, and diverse dissenting voices from across the country.