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There is no evidence proving that Christopher Smart wrote A Song to David while locked away in a mental asylum for seven years. [1] However, John Langhorne claimed, in the 1763 Monthly Review, "that it was written when the Author was denied the use of pen, ink, and paper, and was obliged to indent his lines, with the end of a key upon the wainscot."
The epic poem concerned the Joseon dynasty and Sejong's immediate predecessors, and was a justification of the dynasty change from Goryeo to Joseon. Today, the Songs provide insight into the development of Joseon, the Korean people, and the history of neighboring ethnicities in Northeast Asia such as the Jurchens ( Manchus ) who would later ...
Chris Tse (born 19 June 1989) (Chinese name: 謝聖文) is a Canadian spoken-word poet, educator, and author of Chinese descent. [1] As a spoken word poet, he placed second at the 2011 Poetry Slam World Cup and 2016 Rio International Poetry Slam, and has shared the stage with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Shane Koyczan, and Mustafa the Poet.
Go to Heaven is the eleventh studio album (sixteenth overall) by rock band the Grateful Dead, released April 28, 1980, by Arista Records. It is the band's first album with keyboardist Brent Mydland .
The song is told through the eyes of a promiscuous young man who has had many sexual experiences, and plays upon the double-meaning of the word "heaven." He first recalls his baptism and how the preacher asked the protagonist (then a young boy), "Do you want to go to Heaven," referring to the religious concept of the afterlife (where good people go after their death).
Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow" for the film The Wizard of Oz (1939), which became her signature song. A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for.
"Say Hello 2 Heaven" is a song by the American rock band Temple of the Dog. Written by vocalist Chris Cornell , "Say Hello 2 Heaven" was released as the second single from the band's sole studio album, Temple of the Dog (1991).
The poetic style of the Heavenly Question is markedly different from the other sections of the Chuci collection, with the exception of the "Nine Songs" ("Jiuge"). The poetic form of the Heavenly Questions is the four-character line, more similar to the Shijing than to the predominantly variable lines generally typical of the Chuci pieces, the vocabulary also differs from most of the rest of ...