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  2. Curse of Kehama - Wikipedia

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    The poem is divided into twelve "books". Its first half describes how the evil priest Kehama is able to gain significant amounts of demonic power in a quest to become a god. This is interrupted when his son Arvalan is killed after attempting to have his way with Kailyal, a peasant girl. After the death of his son, Kehama begins to wage war upon ...

  3. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    According to Christian belief, soul meets God for final judgment Merc Homicide Slang Also short for mercenary: Murder Death Kill (MDK) Homicide TV/Movie From 1993 film Demolition Man: Night The state of death Euphemism From the poem by Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Not long for this world [1]

  4. Controversies about the word niggardly - Wikipedia

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    Both negro and noir (and therefore also nègre and nigger) ultimately come from the Latin adjective niger, 'black' or 'dark'. [4] The first recorded use of nigger dates to 1574, and its first recorded derogatory use to 1775. [5] [6] Plays on the similarity of the two words date back at least a century, one example being a piece of sheet music ...

  5. Robert Graves - Wikipedia

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    Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) [1] [2] was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology.

  6. Epithet - Wikipedia

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    The word epithet also may refer to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory word or phrase. [2] [3] This use is criticized by Martin Manser and other proponents of linguistic prescription. [4] H. W. Fowler noted in 1926 that "epithet is suffering a vulgarization that is giving it an abusive imputation." [5]

  7. Robert E. Howard bibliography (poems A–H) - Wikipedia

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    This is the word that Jacob / Meeting his death in Egypt / Laid on the brow of Judah: The Last of the Trunk Och Brev I Urval: Mar 2007: Wikisource: Letter: K Tevis Clyde Smith, undated (Herman 2006, p. 163); PD L: Herman 2006, p. 164 Drums in My Ears: 7: Beyond the creak of rat-gnawed beams in squalid peasant huts: n/a: n/a

  8. Albatross (metaphor) - Wikipedia

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    In the final stanza, he goes on to compare the poets to the birds — exiled from the skies and then weighed down by their giant wings, till death. Herman Melville's Moby-Dick alludes to Coleridge's albatross. [2] In his poem Snake, published in Birds, Beasts and Flowers, D. H. Lawrence mentions the albatross in Ancient Mariner.

  9. A Question - Wikipedia

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    The poem asks you to analyze your life, to question whether every decision you made was for the greater good, and to learn and accept the decisions you have made in your life. One Answer to the Question would be simply to value the fact that you had the opportunity to live. Another interpretation is that the poem gives a deep image of suffering.