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Two-Headed Poems is the eighth book of poems by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published in 1978. The title of the collection refers to its central cycle of poems, which concerns a pair of Siamese twins as a metaphor for Canada. The twins dream of separation, and speak sometimes singly, sometimes together within the poems.
The duel described in the text is between a gingham dog and a calico cat, with a Chinese plate and an old Dutch clock as very unwilling witnesses, whom the poem's narrator credits for having described the events to him. The dueling animals, explains the narrator, eventually eat each other up and thus are both destroyed, causing the duel to end ...
Variations on the Word Love is a poem about love by Margaret Atwood, who is regarded as one of Canada's greatest living writers. [1] The poem appears in True Stories ( Oxford University Press , 1981), her 9th poem collection, [ 2 ] which is dedicated to Carolyn Forche . [ 3 ]
Double Persephone is a self-published poetry collection written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in 1961. [1] Atwood handset the book herself with a flat bed press, designed the cover with linoblocks, and only made 220 copies. [2]
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber 's 1981 musical Cats .
Portions of an unfinished sequel, "The Children of the Owl and the Pussy-cat", were published first posthumously during 1938. The children are part fowl and part cat, and love to eat mice. The family live by places with strange names. The Cat dies, falling from a tall tree, leaving the Owl a single parent. The death causes the Owl great sadness.
Lucille's two extra fingers were amputated surgically when she was a small child, a common practice at that time for reasons of superstition and social stigma. Her "two ghost fingers" and their activities became a theme in her poetry and other writings. Health problems in her later years included painful gout which gave her some difficulty in ...
"Fee-fi-fo-fum" is the first line of a historical quatrain (or sometimes couplet) famous for its use in the classic English fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk".The poem, as given in Joseph Jacobs' 1890 rendition, is as follows: [1]