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Bicycle and Other Poems (1970) is the debut poetry collection by Australian poet and author David Malouf. [1]The collection consists of 41 poems, several of which were previously published in various Australian poetry and general magazines, with the majority published here for the first time.
The title work, "a poem about euthanasia, became quite a controversial poem, frequently anthologized and taught in Canadian literature courses." [5] "A generation of Canadian schoolchildren and university students has grown up knowing the story," Al Purdy wrote in 1974. "At one time or another in the last 25 years, "David" has been required ...
Elaborating on the connection between wolves and figures of great power, he writes: "This is why Geri and Freki, the wolves at Woden's side, also glowered on the throne of the Anglo-Saxon kings. Wolf-warriors, like Geri and Freki, were not mere animals but mythical beings: as Woden's followers they bodied forth his might, and so did wolf-warriors."
In his 1894 novel The Jungle Book, [2] Rudyard Kipling uses the term to describe an actual set of legal codes used by wolves and other animals in the jungles of India.Chapter Two of The Second Jungle Book (1895) [3] includes a poem featuring the Law of the Jungle, as known to the wolves and taught to their offspring.
The title page of Poems in Two Volumes. Poems, in Two Volumes is a collection of poetry by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, published in 1807. [1]It contains many notable poems, including:
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.
David Russell Ferry (March 5, 1924 – November 5, 2023) was an American poet, translator, and educator. [1] He published eight collections of his poetry and a volume of literary criticism. He won the National Book Award for Poetry for his 2012 collection Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations .
He draws attention to the final lines of the poem—"Yet what that one does, that river, / No one knows"—in order to indicate that, whatever the rivers are, or whatever the river does, remains an enigma. Even the poet knows only that the river flows, but not what is decided in that flowing. [6]