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"Blackbird" was released in May 2020 as Munroe's debut single under the Lady Blackbird moniker, bringing her to mainstream critical attention. [7] Despite having been recorded a year earlier, its release coincided with the Black Lives Matter movement in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd , bringing a sombre contemporary context to the ...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. The poem consists of thirteen short, separate sections, each of which mentions blackbirds in some way. Although inspired by haiku, none of the sections meets the traditional definition of haiku.
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called La Belle Dame sans Mercy. [1] Considered an English classic, the poem is an example of Keats' poetic preoccupation with love and death. [2]
The ingenious use of the tarot to portray the nature of the characters and the passing of wisdom between women make “Alchemy of a Blackbird” a satisfying read. ... The book is more like a ...
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Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium, was published in 1923, and republished in a second edition in 1930. Two more books of his poetry were produced during the 1920s and 1930s and three more in the 1940s. He received the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1951 for The Auroras of Autumn [60] [61] and in 1955 for Collected Poems ...
Sappho 31 is a lyric poem by the Archaic Greek poet Sappho of the island of Lesbos. [a] The poem is also known as phainetai moi (φαίνεταί μοι lit. ' It seems to me ') after the opening words of its first line, and as the Ode to Anactoria, based on a conjecture that its subject is Anactoria, a woman mentioned elsewhere by Sappho.
In 1879, the Kosovo Maiden was first painted by Ferdo Kikerec, when historical themes were in vogue at the time — to raise patriotic fervor. [2] Forty years later in 1919 the painting became an inspiration to Uroš Predić, who painted one of the most famous oil paintings of Serbian fine art as part of the cycle of the Carriage of Serbian Sisters.