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"The Life That I Have" was an original poem composed on Christmas Eve 1943 and was originally written by Marks in memory of his girlfriend Ruth, who had just died in a plane crash in Canada. [1] On 24 March 1944, the poem was issued by Marks to Violette Szabo , a British agent of Special Operations Executive who was eventually captured ...
Silvia Federici (born 1942) is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and feminist activist based in New York. [1] She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University in New York State, where she was a social science professor. [2] She also taught at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria from 1984 to 1986. [3]
Many identified with its message of peace, and some saw in it echoes of the Mt. Scopus Speech given by Yitzhak Rabin on accepting an Honorary Doctorate from Hebrew University (June 28, 1967). In that speech Rabin, who had been chief of staff during the Six Day War, had stressed the personal sacrifice both of those Israeli soldiers who fell in ...
Hartmann was a philosophical anarchist who traveled in the New York anarchist social circle as a friend of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and as a drinking buddy of Hippolyte Havel. [6] Though he was on the outskirts of the movement, he attended anarchist meetings, performed at the New York Ferrer Center , and met with Peter Kropotkin ...
The UAE International Award for Poets of Peace was launched on 1 May 2014 for poets [1] at the International Humanitarian City (IHC) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. [2] [3] It is claimed to be the first award of its kind, bridging a multitude of nationalities and languages in which poets will present their sonnets, spreading a message of peace around the world.
Erec is the last of a collection of poems attributed to Hartmann in this MS. There are four sets of fragments: [28] [29] MS K (Koblenz, Landeshauptarchiv, Best. 701 Nr. 759,14b), a double folio from the first half of the 13th century. The dialect is Rhine Franconian from an Upper German original. [28] This MS is closest to Hartmann in date and ...
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.
The poem has six stanzas of four lines each, featuring slant rhyme. [2] The regularity of the four-line stanzas, according to Linda Wagner-Martin, serves to suggest "a grim insistence". [2] The poem's literary allusions include references to Herman Melville's Moby Dick, William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. [3]