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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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    A euphemism that developed in slang on social media, particularly TikTok, to avoid censorship of the words "kill" and "die." Unsubscribe from life To die Euphemistic: 21st century slang Up and die Unexpected death, leaving loose ends Euphemistic: Waste [20] To kill Slang Wearing a pine overcoat (i.e. a wooden coffin) [citation needed] Dead Slang

  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. 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]

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

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    According to Rusty Burke's "The Robert E. Howard Bookshelf" webpage, REH was acquainted with T. S. Eliot's "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and gave a copy of an unnumbered copy (from a 1930 edition of 1200) of The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter to his friend Clyde Smith with this inscription, citing the first stanza of the poem from memory ...

  7. Man Was Made to Mourn - Wikipedia

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    The origin of this poem is alluded to by Burns in one of his letters to Frances Dunlop: "I had an old grand-uncle with whom my mother lived in her girlish years: the good old man was long blind ere he died, during which time his highest enjoyment was to sit and cry, while my mother would sing the simple old song of 'The Life and Age of Man'". [1] "

  8. 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.

  9. If I were God - Wikipedia

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    Lindgren is tired of the humans' evil deeds, so she wants peace. The word "quiet" refers to the end of senseless noise. It does not refer to death. The poem says nothing about silence or peace. There are more important things than war, bullying, torturing, injuring, and arguing. It is a sad laugh, a sad grief that comes to the reader from the poem.