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  2. Wulf and Eadwacer - Wikipedia

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    Even though the poem is a mere nineteen lines there are many differing interpretations, not least because the poem contains several obscure words and some ambiguous grammar. [13] One interpreter considers that the word Eadwacer in the poem is not a proper noun, but a simple common noun which means "property watcher". [14]

  3. Death Be Not Proud - Wikipedia

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    "Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.

  4. The Clown's Prayer - Wikipedia

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    And mock my fear. Lord, I am poor save in this wise: A child have I, And as I joke the best I may, He, uncomplaining fades away And soon must die. Lord, thou hast many in thy home, I only one; Think, Lord, a jester's life is sad, Change not "he has" into "he had," --Grant me my son.

  5. Requiem (Anna Akhmatova) - Wikipedia

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    Requiem is often said to have no clearly definable plot but has many themes which carry throughout the entire poem. [7] One of the most important themes that also stands as part of the title is the theme of "A poem without a hero". [7] [9] Throughout the entire cycle and the many poems within, there is no hero that comes to the rescue. It is ...

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  7. The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was

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    Parodies like to play with the title and give Hans an anticapitalist meaning or sketch him as an insecure personality. Gerold Späths Hans makes a global career and forgets that he looked for the meaning of fear. [24] Rainer Kirsch sketched a film version, in which the hero is murdered by fanning courtiers and thus learns fear too late.

  8. Aram Saroyan - Wikipedia

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    Aram Saroyan (born September 25, 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which include the one-word poem "lighght" [1] and a one-letter poem comprising a four-legged version of the letter "m".

  9. Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night - Wikipedia

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    Publishers Weekly says "In Sidman's delicious poems, darkness is the norm, and there's nothing to fear but the rising sun". [2] Margaret Bush of School Library Journal says “Sidman continues her explorations of natural history in this set of poems about nocturnal life in the forest. As in her other collections, each selection is set in an ...