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The phrase "lest we forget" forms the refrain of "Recessional". It is taken from Deuteronomy 6,12: "Then beware lest thou forget the Lord which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt". [1] The reference to the "ancient sacrifice" as a "humble and a contrite heart" is taken from the Miserere. [5]
Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation, Alex award-winning book by Velma Maia Thomas "Lest We Forget", a popular weekly column written by Natyaguru Nurul Momen published continuously for five years in the English language Daily The Bangladesh Times .
War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
A writer learning the craft of poetry might use the tools of poetry analysis to expand and strengthen their own mastery. [4] A reader might use the tools and techniques of poetry analysis in order to discern all that the work has to offer, and thereby gain a fuller, more rewarding appreciation of the poem. [5]
Sonnet 72 continues after Sonnet 71, with a plea by the poet to be forgotten.The poem avoids drowning in self-pity and exaggerated modesty by mixing in touches of irony. The first quatrain presents an image of the poet as dead and not worth remembering, and suggests an ironic reversal of roles with the idea of the young man reciting words to express his love for the poe
After graduation he won a British Council poetry competition in Accra, and his poems appeared in the Ghanaian literary journal Okyeame, as well as several important African anthologies. Shadows of Laughter (1968), a collection of his best early poems, reveals a thematic interest unusual for a Ghanaian poet: the value of the individual compared ...
(p. 68.) "[T]he seed vault assumes that we know enough to plan effectively and that people will pay attention to what we know. History shows this is often not the case. [T]he most important thing we can do right now is not to plan to respond to climate disaster after it happens but to do everything in our power to prevent it while we still have ...
Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty: 1842 The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale 1800 "'Tis not for the unfeeling, the falsely refined" Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty: 1815 To the Cuckoo 1802 "O Blithe New-comer! I have heard," Poems of the Imagination. 1807 She was a phantom of delight 1803 ":She was a phantom of ...