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Amanda S. C. Gorman [1] (born March 7, 1998) [2] is an American poet, activist, and model.Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora.
For the candy stick striped like a gay barber’s pole. Stick candy was the subject of a poem, "Stick-Candy Days", from the 1907 collection A Rose of the Old Regime: And other Poems of Home-Love and Childhood by the Bentztown Bard (Folger McKinsey). [7] The first two verses are: I want to go back to the stick-candy days,
Melville Henry Cane (April 15, 1879 – March 10, 1980) was an American poet and lawyer. He studied at Columbia University , and was the author of the influential book, Making a Poem (1953). [ 1 ]
A candy cane is a cane-shaped stick candy often associated with Christmastide [1] as well as Saint Nicholas Day. [2] It is traditionally white with red stripes and flavored with peppermint , but the canes also come in a variety of other flavors and colors.
"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 ...
It illustrates an element of his craft, his "refraining for fear of impairing [a poem's] litheness of contour, from overelaborating felicities inherent in a subject." [ 1 ] The red turban of the boatman in the final stanza is a little surprise, not what one would expect in the evidently Floridian everglades.
The Sugar Cane was a pioneering georgic poem adapted to a West Indian theme, first published in 1764. With renewed interest in Caribbean literature , and especially after a new edition was published in 2000, it has attracted critical attention, especially its author's attitude towards slavery .
Baum had written short stories and another children's book, entitled Long Ears And Tailspin In Candy Land (1968), before being asked by the International Wizard of Oz Club in 1987 to write original "Oz" stories. The success of his "Oz" books allowed him to leave his banking job in 1990, and become a full-time children's author.