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The first stanza of the poem is read by Ian Anderson in the beginning of the 2007 remaster of "One Brown Mouse" by Jethro Tull. Anderson adds the line "But a mouse is a mouse, for all that" at the end of the stanza, which is a reference to another of Burns's songs, " Is There for Honest Poverty ", commonly known as "A Man's a Man for A' That".
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
Fragments of his poetry survive as quotations in other ancient authors, the most extensive and well known of which is a satiric account of different types of women which is often cited in discussions of misogyny in Archaic Greece. The poem takes the form of a catalogue, with each type of woman represented by an animal whose characteristics—in ...
"Types of Women", also titled "Women", and described in critical editions as Semonides 7, is an Archaic Greek satirical poem written by Semonides of Amorgos in the seventh century BC. The poem is based on the idea that Zeus created men and women differently, and that he specifically created ten types of women based on different models from the ...
The story is Aarne-Thompson type 2031C in his list of cumulative tales, [1] another example of which is The Husband of the Rat's Daughter. It concerns a search for a partner through a succession of more powerful forces, resolved only by choosing an equal.
Even King’s oft-derided poetry is given two poignant outings. “Tommy” is a free-verse tribute to the Counterculture, while “The Bone Church” is a gore-streaked take on "The Rime of the ...
"The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous", also known as "The Twa Mice," [1] is a Middle Scots adaptation of Aesop's Fable The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse by the Scottish poet Robert Henryson. Written around the 1480s, it is the second poem in Henryson's collection called The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian.
After the Supreme Court ruled Friday to overturn Roe vs. Wade, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed it through poetry. It's not the first time.