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Poems in the form of an altar reappear in the Baroque period, written by educated authors who had come across the shaped poems preserved in the Greek anthology.At the very beginning of this period, an altar was found to be a convenient shape for an epitaph, as in the anonymous tribute in Greek to the poet Philip Sydney in the Peplus Illustrissimi viri D. Philippi Sidnaei (1587), [5] and there ...
Examples include poems by Simmias of Rhodes in the shape of an egg, [2] wings [3] and a hatchet, [4] as well as Theocritus' pan-pipes. [ 5 ] The post-Classical revival of shaped poetry seems to begin with the Gerechtigkeitsspirale (spiral of justice), a relief carving of a poem at the pilgrimage church of St. Valentin, Kiedrich .
Many of the poems have been dated to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and are likely to be the work of poets adopting the Taliesin persona for the purposes of writing about awen (poetic inspiration), characterised by material such as: I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. I have been a sword, narrow, variegated,
The poem in English is founded on the poetic conceit that the altar has been fashioned from the author's stony heart by the power of Christ and, being so reared, now binds both the poet and his Lord in a lasting relationship. The balanced construction of its sixteen lines rhymed in couplets emphasizes the shape of this altar.
" Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born," Leaves of Grass (Book II.) 1860 Still Though the One I Sing " Still though the one I sing,' Leaves of Grass (Book I. Inscriptions) Stronger Lessons " Have you learn’d lessons only of those who admired you, and were" Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV. Sands at Seventy) Tears " Tears! tears! tears!"
Janet S. Wong is an American poet and author of children's books.She has written over 30 books, primarily poetry, picture books, and middle grade fiction.At the age of seven, she had an active imagination.
The Mouse's Tale" is a shaped poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in his 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Though no formal title for the poem is given in the text, the chapter title refers to "A Long Tale" and the Mouse introduces it by saying, "Mine is a long and sad tale!" As well as the contribution of typography to illustrate ...
The poem's two-stanzas were originally formatted sideways across opposite pages on its first publication, making the likeness to two sets of wings more obvious. [5] Another pattern poem appearing near the start of his collection, The Temple, was "The Altar". There were three other poems in the shape of wings published later than Herbert's.