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"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World). [2] In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
The poem Tomten was written by Viktor Rydberg in 1881. In 1957, it was published in the children's magazine Klumpe Dumpe with illustrations by Harald Wiberg. At the time, Astrid Lindgren worked as an editor at the book publishing company Rabén & Sjögren. She wanted to publish the poem and the illustrations in a book form and tried to convince ...
"Tomten", also known as "Midvinternattens köld är hård", is a poem written by Viktor Rydberg, and originally published in Ny Illustrerad Tidning in 1881. While outwardly being an idyllic Christmas poem, the poem asks about the meaning of life. A short film, Tomten, was recorded in 1941 by Gösta Roosling, where Hilda Borgström reads the ...
Sylvia Plath, in a BBC reading of "Death & Co.", introduced her work as follows: The poem is about the double or schizophrenia nature of death—marmoreal of Blake's death mask, say, hand in glove with the fearful softness of worms, water, and other katabolists. I imagine these two aspects of death as two men, two business friends, who have ...
The ballade, which premiered on 17 April 1895 in Helsinki, Finland, with Sibelius conducting, follows the Swedish writer Viktor Rydberg's 1882 poem of the same title, in which a young man, Björn, wanders into the forest and is seduced and driven to despair by a skogsrå, or wood nymph. Organizationally, the tone poem consists of four informal ...
Key Points. The 50/30/20 budget is a simple budgeting method. You limit fixed expenses to 50% of income, save 20%, and can spend the remaining 20%.
Dean Young (1955 – August 23, 2022) was an American poet in the lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch.Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derived influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets.
This, Sorley's last poem, was recovered from his kit after his death. It was untitled, and so is commonly known by its incipit , or other titles. It is generally interpreted as a rebuttal to Rupert Brooke 's 1915 sonnet " The Soldier .", [ 2 ] which begins "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field ...