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Heishe or heishi (pronounced "hee shee") are small disc- or tube-shaped beads made of organic shells or ground and polished stones. They come from the Kewa Pueblo people (formerly Santo Domingo Pueblo) of New Mexico, before the use of metals in jewelry by that people. [ 1 ]
The Ego-Futurists were another poetry school within Russian Futurism during the 1910s, based on a personality cult. [53] [56] Most prominent figures among them are Igor Severyanin and Vasilisk Gnedov. The Acmeists were a Russian modernist poetic school, which emerged ca. 1911 and to symbols preferred direct expression through exact images.
Heishi may refer to: Taira clan of Japan, also known as Heishi ( 平氏 ) Heishe or heishi, disk-shaped shell, coral or turquoise beads, created by Pueblo people
Allan Ahlberg is an English writer known for several best-selling children's books, both full of poetry and children's literature, illustrated by his wife Janet. [ 32 ] Arna Bontemps (1902 - 1973) born in Alexandria, Louisiana and raised in California, is one of the most well known black writers of the twentieth century. [ 33 ]
The Seashell Game (貝おほひ, Kai Ōi) is a 1672 anthology compiled by Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, in which each haiku is followed by critical commentary he made as referee for a haiku contest. [1]
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism. In literature, the style originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.
A modern English example is "painted Jezebel" as a disapproving expression for a woman too fond of using cosmetics. Kennings may include proper names. A modern example of this is an ad hoc usage by a helicopter ambulance pilot: "the Heathrow of hang gliders " for the hills behind Hawes in Yorkshire in England, when he found the air over the ...
Martian poetry became a popular element in the teaching of poetry composition to school children. Related to Surrealism, it arose in the context of the experimental poetry of the late 1960s; but also owes a debt to a variety of English traditions including metaphysical poetry, Anglo-Saxon riddles, and nonsense poetry (e.g.: Lewis Carroll ...