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  2. If I were God - Wikipedia

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    The poem represents that God's creation developed into the negative or even failed. Therefore, the floods of tears would act like an apocalyptic deluge. The poem also shows Astrid Lindgren's doubt and search for God. Next to doubting God, Astrid Lindgren would also desperately search for him.

  3. Zhuangzi (book) - Wikipedia

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    Jia does not reference the Zhuangzi by name, but cites it for one-sixth of the poem. [ 49 ] The Six Dynasties period (AD 220–589) that followed the collapse of the Han saw Confucianism temporarily surpassed by a resurgence of interest in Taoism and old divination texts such as the I Ching , with many poets, artists, and calligraphers of this ...

  4. List of works based on dreams - Wikipedia

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    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) was inspired by a dream: . When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think. My imagination, unbidden, possessed and guided me, gifting the successive images that arose in my mind with a vividness far beyond the usual bounds of reverie.

  5. The Dream of the Rood - Wikipedia

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    The framing device is the narrator having a dream. In this dream or vision he is speaking to the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. The poem itself is divided up into three separate sections: the first part (lines 1–27), the second part (lines 28–121) and the third part (lines 122–156). [1]

  6. A Dream (Blake poem) - Wikipedia

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    "A Dream" is a poem by English poet William Blake. The poem was first published in 1789 as part of Blake's collection of poems entitled Songs of Innocence. A 1795 hand painted version of "A Dream" from Copy L of Songs of Innocence and of Experience currently held by the Yale Center for British Art [1]

  7. High Flight - Wikipedia

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    English independent filmmakers James Walker and John Wallace produced the documentary film High Flight in 2016, which takes its name from the poem, and documents Magee's story, the origin of the poem and the poem's place in the legacy of World War Two iconography, as well as the cultural impact of the era upon the "baby boomer" generation. The ...

  8. The Dream of Gerontius (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem, written after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, [1] explores his new Catholic-held beliefs of the journey from death through Purgatory, thence to Paradise, and to God. The poem follows the main character as he nears death and reawakens as a soul, preparing for judgment, following one of the most important ...

  9. Dream vision - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, the form of visions is taken over by courtly chivalrous poetry in folk languages: visions here acquire a new content, becoming a frame of love-didactic allegory — such as, for example, "Fabliau dou dieu d'amour" (the Story of the God of love), " Venus la déesse d'amors" (Venus — the goddess of love) and finally-the ...