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A Duma (Ukrainian: дума, plural dumy) is a oral epic poem which originated in Ukraine during the Hetmanate Era in the sixteenth century, possibly based on earlier Kyivan epic forms.
In 1964, as editor of the literary magazine Perspektive, he published his iconoclastic poem "Duma '64" (Thought '64). When Ivan Maček, a Titoist hard-liner, saw the dead cat in the poem as a reference to himself (the Slovene word maček means 'cat'), Perspektive was banned and Šalamun was arrested. [8]
Originally, it was the diminutive form of the Ukrainian term duma, pl. dumy, "a Slavic (specifically Ukrainian) epic ballad … generally thoughtful or melancholic in character". [1] Classical composers drew on the harmonic patterns in the folk music to inform their more formal classical compositions.
Alexandre Dumas [a] (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [b] 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), [1] [2] also known as Alexandre Dumas père, [c] was a French novelist and playwright.
Duma, an American adventure film; Duma, an Israeli documentary; Duma (band), a Kenyan-Ugandan industrial grindcore band; Duma (DC Comics), a character in The Sandman comic book series; Duma (epic), epic poetry of Ukraine; Dumka (musical genre), an instrumental musical genre inspired by the Duma epic
emember "Rumplestiltskin"? An impish man offers to help a girl with the . impossible chore she's been tasked with: spinning heaps of straw into gold. It's a story that's likely to give independent women the jitters; living beholden to a demanding king and a conniving mythical creature is no one's idea of romance.
Duma(h) or Douma (Aramaic) is the angel of silence and of the stillness of death. [3]Dumah is also the tutelary angel of Egypt, prince of Hell, and angel of vindication. The Zohar speaks of him as having "tens of thousands of angels of destruction" under him, and as being "Chief of demons in Gehinnom [i.e., Hell] with 12,000 myriads of attendants, all charged with the punishment of the souls ...
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...