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"Maenad", the third in the series of poems that comprise "Poem for a Birthday", invokes the Maenad, in which the speaker "assumes the character of maenadic woman, frenzied and raging, throughout the seven-poem sequence." [6] Here the maternal figure is indifferent to her offspring: The mother of mouths didn’t love me. The old man drank to a doll.
An unpublished 9-line poem written circa 1829 for Poe's cousin Elizabeth Rebecca Herring (the acrostic is her first name, spelled out by the first letter of each line). It was never published in Poe's lifetime. James H. Whitty discovered the poem and included it in his 1911 anthology of Poe's works under the title "From an Album".
Though the definition of a long poem is vague and broad, the genre includes some of the most important poetry ever written. With more than 220,000 (100,000 shloka or couplets) verses and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is one of the longest epic poems in the world. [1]
The Longest Day. Addressed to my Daughter 1817 "Let us quit the leafy arbor," Poems referring to the Period of Childhood: 1820 Hint from the Mountains for certain Political Pretenders 1817 "'Who but hails the sight with pleasure" Poems of the Fancy: 1820 The Pass of Kirkstone: 1817, 27 June "Within the mind strong fancies work," Poems of the ...
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The name of Wilde's poem and its hero is identical with that of a young man loved by Socrates and immortalised in Plato's dialogue Charmides. Wilde may have intended the name to be a signal to his readers that the poem is an erotically charged work about a beautiful boy, but there is no other connection between the two works, whether verbal or ...
Put your presidential knowledge to the test this Election Day with The Post's commander-in-chief quiz.Today the country votes to elect the 47th president of the United States. Whether you cast a...
Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.