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  2. Abandoned Farmhouse - Wikipedia

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    "Abandoned Farmhouse" is an American poem in three 8-line stanzas, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.. First published in 1980 with Kooser's collection Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, [1] the poem uses open verse, simple diction and personification of inanimate objects to infer a family's story and possible reasons for their departure, through observation of ...

  3. Archaic Torso of Apollo - Wikipedia

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    It is an ekphrasis—a rhetorical genre from ancient Greece that describes inanimate objects—of an archaic Greek sculpture of Apollo, of which only the torso and crotch area survive. The poem argues that although the head is missing, the characteristics of the remaining body give an impression of what the complete statue must have been like.

  4. Ekphrasis - Wikipedia

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    Ives also wrote a poem inspired by the sculpture as a companion piece to the music. [12] Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem Isle of the Dead is a musical evocation of Böcklin's painting of the same name. King Crimson's song "The Night Watch", with lyrics written by Richard Palmer-James, is an ekphrasis on Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch.

  5. Safina-yi Tabriz - Wikipedia

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    In each of these debates, each object boasts of its own quality relative to its opponent while attempting to belittle their opponents. Through these abstractions of inanimate objects, the authors use both poetry and composition to convey moral and philosophical lessons. The following listed articles all in Persian are the debates between the ...

  6. Dinggedicht - Wikipedia

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    Dinggedicht (orig. German: literally, 'poem of things' or 'thing poem'; plural, Dinggedichte) is a poetic form, referring to a specific focus and mood in the choice of a poetic theme. Developed during the second half of the 19th century, the focus in a Dinggedicht rests on an animate or inanimate object that is described in a distanced, often ...

  7. Why do some people give human feelings to inanimate objects ...

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    When people feel sympathy for inanimate objects, they are anthropomorphizing, attributing human behaviors or feelings to animals or objects who cannot feel the same emotions as we do, Shepard said.

  8. Apostrophe (figure of speech) - Wikipedia

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    Often the addressee is a personified abstract quality or inanimate object. [2] [3] In dramatic works and poetry written in or translated into English, such a figure of speech is often introduced by the vocative exclamation, "O". Poets may apostrophize a beloved, the Muses, God or gods, love, time, or any other entity that can't respond in reality.

  9. The Wave (poem) - Wikipedia

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    It is a llatai poem, which is to say one in which an animal or inanimate object is sent bearing a message of love. In this case an ocean wave is sent by the poet's beloved in Anglesey , and reaches him as he returns by ship from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella .