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"A Rose Is Not A Rose" is a song written by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman for the 1978 motion picture musical The Magic of Lassie and performed by Pat Boone. Irving Stettner in his poem Singing: "A rose is a rose/ is a rose", as Gertrude/ Stein once said,/ and when i sing/ yes, i'm a red rose/ like anything!" [6]
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not affect what they really are.
"A rose is a rose is a rose" was perhaps the inspiration for Umberto Eco to paraphrase the citation from Bernard of Cluny "Stat Roma pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus" in his "Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus" at the end of his book The Name of the Rose (1980). The line in the novel is not a paraphrase.
Several of Stein's writings have been set to music by composers, including Virgil Thomson's operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All, and James Tenney's setting of Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose as a canon dedicated to Philip Corner, beginning with "a" on an upbeat and continuing so that each repetition shuffles the words ...
"Roses Are Red" is a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. [1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is: [2]
"The Sick Rose" is a poem by William Blake, originally published in Songs of Innocence and of Experience as the 39th plate; the incipit of the poem is O Rose thou art sick. Blake composed the poem sometime after 1789, and presented it with an illuminated border and illustration, typical of his self-publications. [1]
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Enrique Hernandez, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 22.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
The rose always was, and is, and will be forever on the "Rood of Time. The poem is settled in the rose, to the point that the poem’s tone is one of sweet, suffering melancholy, a tone that is reaching for the sublime. In the 1890s, says Stephen Coote, Yeats was concerned for the "spiritual regeneration of his people": he felt that a spiritual ...