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The Child" is an English poem written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1930. [1] [2] It was his only poem originally written in English. [1] [2] Later, he translated it in Bengali as "Sishutirtha". [1] It was one of Tagore's most outstanding poem in his poetic career. [2] It was originally written in a single night.
The first sculpture to be found, known as the 'poetree' The Scottish book sculptures are a group of book sculptures that were contrived to be "found" in Scotland between 2011 and 2016. The sculptures are on topics mostly concerning Scottish literature and poetry, and are made out of old books by an anonymous female paper sculptor.
Woolner was a close friend of a number of writers of the day, notably Thomas Carlyle and Alfred Tennyson. He provided the latter with the scenario for his poem "Enoch Arden". He also corresponded with Charles Darwin, who named part of the human ear the 'Woolnerian Tip' after a feature in Woolner's sculpture Puck. Woolner had discussed the ...
Divine intervention is an event that occurs when a deity (i.e. God or gods) becomes actively involved in changing some situation in human affairs. In contrast to other kinds of divine action, the expression "divine intervention" implies that there is some kind of identifiable situation or state of affairs that a god chooses to get involved with, to intervene in, in order to change, end, or ...
The pattern for the number of stresses in this poem is 3-3-4-4-4-3. Flow-er in the cran-nied wall, I pluck you out of the cran-nies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flow-er—but if I could un-der-stand. What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. The poem also follows an ABCCAB rhyme scheme.
The opening text from the Gospel of John is inscribed around the sculpture: "In the beginning was the word and the word became flesh and lived among us". [1] Chapman has said of the sculpture: "For the millennium I was commissioned to produce a sculpture to be placed in Trafalgar square, during Christmas prior to the celebrations.
The original fountain is believed to have been installed in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union was being adorned with various outdoor architectural works, including similar fountains designed by sculptor Romuald Iodko, a co-author of the Girl with an Oar, an archetype of the Soviet kitsch.
It is spoken through the voice of Grímnir, one of the many guises of the god Odin. The very name suggests guise, or mask or hood. Through an error, King Geirröth tortured Odin-as-Grímnir, a fatal mistake, since Odin caused him to fall upon his own sword. The poem is written mostly in the ljóðaháttr metre, [2] typical for wisdom verse.