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It was during this time the Mother Bengal was an immensely popular theme in Bengali patriotic songs and poems and was mentioned in several of them, such as the song ″Dhana Dhanya Pushpa Bhara″ and ″Banga Amar Janani Amar″ (Our Bengal Our Mother) by Dwijendralal Ray. These songs were meant to rekindle the unified spirit of Bengal, to ...
Porcelain image of John Barleycorn, c .1761. The first song to personify Barley was called Allan-a-Maut ('Alan of the malt'), a Scottish song written prior to 1568; [3]. Allan is also the subject of "Quhy Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be", a fifteenth or sixteenth century Scots poem included in the Bannatyne Manuscript of 1568 and 17th century English broadsides.
An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...
The song "Hail, Columbia," an American patriotic song. It was considered with several other songs one of the unofficial national anthems of the United States until 1931, when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was officially named the national anthem. The song "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" (1843) commemorates the United States under the name Columbia.
“This is a song I actually sat and took the time to write,” says the 23-year-old, who came up with the sappy love-bomb ballad while driving home from his son’s mother’s house at seven in ...
Personification is the representation of ... series came in the 21st century to dominate popular cinema in a number ... 1500, 1971, Cambridge UP, PDF; Hall ...
The song's lyrical heroine, the Kupala Night Maiden is “weeding a rose, piercing her white hands” and “plucking flowers, weaving wreaths, and shedding tears”. [ 2 ] It is considered that the song has become “the national personification of Belarus as a country with a beautiful and sad woman’s face”.
Ibu Pertiwi is a popular Indonesian patriotic song composed by Kamsidi Samsuddin in 1908. [1] The song's lyrics are about Ibu Pertiwi, the national personification of Indonesia (also interpreted as "mother country"). It is normally sung by Indonesian children, elementary and secondary school students, or played during Indonesian Independence ...