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The Chaos" is a poem demonstrating the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation. Written by Dutch writer, traveller, and teacher Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870–1946) under the pseudonym of Charivarius, it includes about 800 examples of irregular spelling.
His poem The Chaos, included in later editions of the latter book, intended as a practice material for English words Dutch speakers found difficult to pronounce, also became popular outside the Netherlands. [3] It is known in England among the few who seek a spelling reform. In the field of constitutional law, he wrote The Constitution (1912).
Chaos, an 1898 novel by Alexander Shirvanzade; Liber Chaos, an alchemical treatise by Ramon Llull; Chaos: Making a New Science, a 1987 book by James Gleick; CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, a 2019 book by Tom O'Neill with Dan Piepenbring "The Chaos", a poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité
In both cases, chaos referring to a notion of a primordial state contains the cosmos in potentia but needs to be formed by a demiurge before the world can begin its existence. The use of chaos in the derived sense of "complete disorder or confusion" first appears in Elizabethan Early Modern English, originally implying satirical exaggeration ...
The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War [4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second ...
Love in a City of Chaos (亂都之戀) is a collection of new poems written by Chang Wo-chun, a Taiwanese writer during the Japanese ruling period. It was published in December 1925 and is the first Chinese-language poetry collection published in Taiwan . [ 1 ]
The Carnivalesque is a literary mode that subverts and liberates the assumptions of the dominant style or atmosphere through humor and chaos. It originated as "carnival" in Mikhail Bakhtin 's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and was further developed in Rabelais and His World .
A poetry review in The New York Times called "Songs of the transformed" "a splendid series of animal poems ... [able] to capture the natural world and yet to manage to make a larger statement.", [1] and Manijeh Mannani of Athabasca University found that it "continue[s] the same thread of feminist concerns [of her previous poetry] with only the concluding poems of the collection reflecting the ...