Sentences with phrase «as the poem said»

As the poem said, I still can't believe life could be so great!

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While some rights holders have argued that the standard for a substantial is very low (the National Post recently argued in a case that «even the reproduction of a small number of words in a newspaper article can be an impermissible reproduction»), the Copyright Board says that its preliminary view is that «copying of a few pages or a small percentage from a book that is not a collection of short works, such as poems, is not substantial.»

The speaker in Frost's poem yearns, as he says, «Toward heaven.»

Look at it through microscopes, analyze the printer's ink and the paper, study it (in that way) as long as you like; you will never find something over and above all the products of analysis whereof you can say «This is the poem».

As the poem puts it: «A general flavor of mild decay, / But nothing local, as one may say.&raquAs the poem puts it: «A general flavor of mild decay, / But nothing local, as one may say.&raquas one may say.»

In concluding his statement, the president combined words from the first and last lines of a moving poem, «High Flight,» written by a poet - pilot, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. «We will never forget them,» the president said, «nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye, «and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.»»

Quint asserts that the poem thus described is «not a self - consuming artifact,» but as the originator of that phrase and category, I would say it fits perfectly.

While her life and work were not defined by melancholy, they were surely saturated by it, drenched in it — and it is probably fair to say that her poems would not exist as we have them without melancholy.

Writing about «Harbor Seals,» also from The Theology of Doubt, Holden said the poem «charms the reader, even as it tempts the reader into a corner... that will require the reader to make a moral choice as well as to reconsider many other kinds of choices about what to «believe.»

If this is true, we must say that the imagination is that part of ourselves that responds to the text as a poem, and that alone can encounter revelation no longer as an unacceptable pretension but a nonviolent appeal.

If to understand oneself is to understand oneself in front of the text, must we not say that the reader's understanding is suspended, derealized, made potential just as the world itself is metamorphosized by the poem?

As Brooks says, «Indeed, almost any insight important enough to warrant a great poem apparently has to be stated in such terms,» that is, «by means of paradox» (WWU 16).

It is closer to a collection of books, but even that is not accurate, as most of the «books» are not «books» at all, but are letters, or chronicles of events, or even collections themselves of poems and pithy sayings.

(As Yeats once said, «It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.»As Yeats once said, «It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.»as if they were prose.»)

Or as the same critic says of her poem, «Illustrious Ancestors,» «what strikes us first is that the miraculous itself is being treated matter - of - factly.

Well, I would like to make, thinking some line still taut between me and them, poems direct as what the birds said, hard as a floor, sound as a bench, mysterious as the silence when the tailor would pause with his needle in the air.23.

«We've always used that poem as our point of reference, to remember what we are, who we are, to keep our values straight and to think about where we're going,» says Upshaw.

As poet laureate, Hall says he is eager to do his part in the difficult task of popularizing hisart form, so SI asked him to name the five best baseball poems ever written.But the request seems to make him cranky.

We received the Barefoot Book of Classic Poems as a gift last Christmas and I can not say enough about the quality of poetry selections, the illustrations and the feel good nature of -LSB-...]

The email contains a poem that appears on a white supremacist website, the Lib Dems said, as well as a picture of the white cliffs of Dover with the words «p *** off, we're full» written on them.

«The amount of myths, poems and legends about love around the globe is astronomical,» says Fisher, «and until very recently people still regarded romantic love as part of the supernatural.»

He continues, describing the show as a poem, saying some are only meant to be, ``... haikus and some are meant to be sonnets and some are meant to be enormous epics, and this was always meant to be a sonnet.

Then again, who am I to say that there isn't an audience of adult fans of the book who also want an overly simplified framing narrative to fill in the gaps between the poetry, as well as children who like their broad comedy to be interrupted by spiritualistic poems about life and death?

Fourth graders from another participating school, St. Margaret Mary School, also a pre-K to grade - six school in Ottawa, wrote poems using the words «I have a dream» as the opening and closing lines, computer teacher Noelle McCabe said.

The pack includes: · Two long colourful display banners of «Pirates» and «Treasure Island» each decorated with pirate themed pictures · A colourful display border to print out as many times as you need for use on a display board of any size · An A4 word card - great to use when writing · Topic words - great to add to display or use in the writing area · Word and picture flashcards · Pirate posters - pictures of different pirates · Colouring pictures - a collection of pirate themed sheets for children to colour · Phoneme coins - all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on gold coins - great for display or to hide in the sand tray for the children to find the «treasure» · Alphabet coins - lower and upper case letters · Bingo - a pirate themed colourful bingo game to make and play · Skull and cross-bone bunting · Pirate phrases on posters · A pirate profile worksheet - draw your pirate and then decide what characteristics your pirate will have - three different versions of this for differentiation · Songs and rhymes about pirates · Play dough mats - can you make 3 more pieces of treasure, can you give the pirates new hats etc · Colourful treasure to cut out and use on displays, in the sand tray etc · Board game - move around the treasure island answering questions along the way to try and reach the treasure first - two levels of maths questions are provided as well as blank question cards · Two pirate themed wordsearches · «My pirate adventure» worksheet · Wanted posters for the children to fill in · Writing pages - Four A4 pages with pirate borders for the children to use when writing · Design a pirate flag worksheet · Search for the treasure game - collect coins along the way to fill your treasure chest · Cut and stick treasure map · Pirate acrostic poem · Speech bubble worksheets - write what you think the different pirates are saying · Counting cards up to 10 - count the number of pirate ships, telescopes etc · Design a pirate ship worksheet · Describe the treasure worksheet · A worksheet for the children to draw and write what they have spotted through the telescope

Even a place - based poem, such as «The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,» can work, Burg says.

Their new poems have been collected as a free downloadable eBook Messages: A National Poetry Day Book available from the National Poetry Day website, alongside posters, lesson plans and specially commissioned «Say it with a poem» images from artist Sophie Herxheimer.

But I am saying we might find it more powerful to treat poems as treasures — both personal and communal.

Lightfoot shared a poem by Jean Toomer in which she said she learned as a fifth grader «the power and meaning of metaphor.»

Your students can even give their gratitude poems to family members as a creative way of saying «thank you» for all they do.

It says that an author is «a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.»

As Nikki Giovanni said, «If you wrote [only] from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems.

As we said in our original review: transcendent images for a transcendent poem.

She said this in a hushed voice, as if quoting the events of Pushkin's poem required discretion.

But the best laid plans of mice and men, often go astray, as the saying goes (well actually best - laid schemes o» mice an» men gang aft a-gley is the proper line, still in Scots dialect from Robert Burns» poem).

Of her approach to translation, she says, «I approach all poems as untranslatable.

Included in the Leyden Gallery show are mostly recent smaller - scale (for Koorland) script paintings of songs and poems, made this past year or two with an intimate, note - to - self quality, with an occasional older piece, inserted, as Koorland says, for content and colour.

«As if one's own liberated language could speak for itself / in a medium as overdetermined as painting,» the poem sayAs if one's own liberated language could speak for itself / in a medium as overdetermined as painting,» the poem sayas overdetermined as painting,» the poem sayas painting,» the poem says.

From this perspective, Prof. Grad gives us some close «readings» of Avery's work, rather in the manner of a literary critic explicating the content of a lyric poem, and she is particularly energetic in making those comparisons with other American painters whose work, as she says, «touches on the pastoral mode.»

The poem says the conceptual artist «takes the medium as it comes, and roots / himself in sculptural ground in / most of the events he conceives....»

I wonder whether its first viewers would have been as familiar with its story, based on the Keats poem, as say contemporary audiences might be with the storyline of a popular film.

So this poem is sort of an oblique comparison between the ideals of William Blake and Phil Jones (if such a man as Jones can be said to have ideals).