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The poem retells a famous episode from Ferdowsi's Persian epic Shahnameh relating how the great warrior Rustum unknowingly slew his long-lost son Sohrab in single combat. Arnold, who was unable to read the original, relied on summaries of the story in John Malcolm 's History of Persia and Sainte-Beuve 's review of a French prose translation of ...
Power Politics is a book of poetry by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1971. It contains her famous simile: You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye. The violent surprise of this poem is typical of Atwood’s imagery. [1] Gender is a crucial theme in Power Politics.
Suicide in the Trenches" is one of the many poems the English poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) composed in response to World War I, reflecting his own notable service in that especially bloody conflict. Sassoon was a brave and gallant upper-class officer who eventually opposed the war, but he never lost his admiration for the common ...
The poem is recited by James Stewart's character in Magic Town (1947). Passages from this poem are recited in Soldier Blue (1970) in lieu of a prayer after a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Lines from the poem is quoted at the end of When The Wind Blows (1982). The poem inspired the Iron Maiden song "The Trooper" (1983). [13]
The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest are subject.
"The Destruction of Sennacherib" [2] is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1815 in his Hebrew Melodies (in which it was titled The Destruction of Semnacherib). [3] The poem is based on the biblical account of the historical Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC by Assyrian king Sennacherib, as described in 2 Kings 18–19, Isaiah 36–37.
Belfast Confetti is a poem about the aftermath of a sectarian riot in Belfast by Northern Irish poet and translator Ciarán Carson. [1] The name of the poem derives from the nickname for the large shipbuilding rivets and other scrap metal that were used as missiles by Protestant shipyard workers during anti-Catholic riots in Belfast.
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. [3] She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust.