Sentences with phrase «as poems in»

Timothy Leary's psychedelic prayers came next to mind, created as poems in the form of a manual — inspired by Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching — and encouraged to be read during psychedelic trips.

And most importantly, do the poems stand on their own as poems in English, divorced from the historical intrigue of Lorca's life?

This flash fiction was initially written as a poem in 2003 after Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, and survived.

Not exact matches

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.»

Milosz does not answer this question in the poem, but his work as poet has always been to give voice to precisely this: all the sad, neglected stories of so many men and women.

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

In this testimonial poem, Milosz directly acknowledges God as the absolute point of reference.

And the result is poems such as «The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket,» the centerpiece of his first full book, published in 1946.

In 2002, Milosz published a long poem that was meant to function as a testimonial, A Theological Treatise.

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

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

BTW if you need a biblical opinion as t o why you should consider leaving the bible in the stories and good poems section of your personal library remember 1 Corinthians 13:11

• Edwin Muir, The Complete Poems: As far as I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else'sAs far as I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else'sas I can tell, Muir is the least - read great poet in English of the twentieth century; he is mostly remembered, it seems, for his translations of Kafka (which are immeasurably better than anyone else's).

As I search for the words for a sermon or a poem, as I raise teenagers, or as I respond to a crisis in my parish, I feel Jesus» invitation to step out of my boat, to leave behind the safe and the practical in order to toddle toward hiAs I search for the words for a sermon or a poem, as I raise teenagers, or as I respond to a crisis in my parish, I feel Jesus» invitation to step out of my boat, to leave behind the safe and the practical in order to toddle toward hias I raise teenagers, or as I respond to a crisis in my parish, I feel Jesus» invitation to step out of my boat, to leave behind the safe and the practical in order to toddle toward hias I respond to a crisis in my parish, I feel Jesus» invitation to step out of my boat, to leave behind the safe and the practical in order to toddle toward him.

If his life seems fairly unremarkable except for the bitterness of the exile and of his unfulfilled political hopes, it resulted in an overpowering single work, the Comedy (which was not known as The Divine Comedy until 1555, an apt editorial intervention that has remained with the poem to this day).

As one who lived life to the full, he was able to embody the mature faith required to wrestle with high doctrine in a challenging poem like «In my Grandfather's Mansion» — or «Grandfather God,» in which he struggles with the doctrine of the Virgin Birtin a challenging poem like «In my Grandfather's Mansion» — or «Grandfather God,» in which he struggles with the doctrine of the Virgin BirtIn my Grandfather's Mansion» — or «Grandfather God,» in which he struggles with the doctrine of the Virgin Birtin which he struggles with the doctrine of the Virgin Birth:

Perhaps as early as 1293 he had composed a work called Vita nuova («New Life»), in which he assembled thirty - one poems written during the previous ten years, many of which celebrated a woman named Beatrice.

Robert Burns has a telling picture of such a nightly experience in his poem about the Scots peasant on Saturday, preparing for the observance of the next day as the time for worship and rest: The Cotter's Saturday Night.

They allow the poem to be utterly serious when its author wants it to be (one can not imagine such playfulness being allowed in the climactic visions of Paradiso XXXIII), and they allow readers to think that Dante is at least as sane as they are.

For example, poems by Kabir, the mystic and religious reformer are included — as in these lines:

What is a pagan, damned to Limbo forever for his lack of faith, doing as guide in a Christian poem?

Surely the spirit of sheer immediacy in this poem is very close to the spirit of gratitude as the Christian knows it.

Even if the date and place of Jesus» birth may be uncertain, the claim that God entered human history is central to traditional Christian belief, as the British poet Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 84) indicated in his poem «Christmas»:

It closely resembles the spirit of other traditions, such as that expressed in this beautiful poem from Zen Buddhism:

i failed to see how this video and its poem in particular correlate to atheism as this article implied.

But then her strength stirred, and as the poem continues, «an all - powerful longing... drove me forth to wander in order to see, to enjoy, and to know the All.

Jonson provides ample evidence in his works for those who wish to claim him as Catholic (some poems), anti-Catholic (satires in the plays), and unreligious.

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 I have struggled with my own calling, I have found that I share much in common with George Herbert in his wonderful poem «The Collar.»

Few contemporary critics of Eliot's ideas have disputed his diagnosis of society's ills, as eloquently presented in his poems and more tendentiously in his essays.

And didn't Eliot admit as much in such early poems as «The Hippopotamus» and «Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service»?

What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»

He's an authority on the Song of Songs, and he interprets the biblical Song in light of other ancient love poems — as it should be.

I'll never forget feeling the tension in the classroom as he went into detail about the real meaning of the poem.

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.»»

As he writes in the same poem, «And I know people in glass homes shouldn't throw stones.

In «Candid Headstone,» a poem intended to serve as his grim epitaph, he does offer a clue — but so delicately that only those who already knew of the connection between Juster and Astrue could get the pun:

Rather it is an instrument whereby he punctures our pretension and self - deception, as in his poem «Grub First, Then Ethics.»

In the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the languagIn the case of Psalms, there is a delicate issue of practical judgment involved because it is at least conceivable that by now millions of Catholic women — I have no way of knowing — have become so sensitive to textual phenomena such as pronoun usage that the only way to make these poems accessible to them as vehicles for prayer is to observe strict gender neutrality in the languagin the language.

But part of the answer may be his sense of private language, as reflected in his longest poem by far, «The Secret Language of Women,» about the Chinese women who found a way to communicate with their sisters in spite of the Maoist revolution and all the powers of earth.

But well known to some as the seasoned British poet and satirist, ten years older than Astrue, whose poems will break your heart in one line and chill you to the marrow in the next, and whose books Astrue used to keep on his nightstand.

These are poems that take as their beginning point headlines from the National Enquirer: «Beauty Queen Has Monster Child,» «Woman Picked up by UFO, Flown into Black Hole,» «Sweethearts Vanish in Tunnel of Love,» «Human Boy Found in Indian Jungle Among Wolf Pack.»

Rather, the problem is that of sheer knowledge, of how to accede linguistically to the aesthetic value in the sheer relationality and facticity before one's eyes.20 To regard such a poem as a proposition is to make it a banality; and for the Western, scientifically - minded, academic intellectual that is no trick at all.

But as one comes to know the poet through the separate experience of a number of poems, so «out of the givers of the signs, the speakers of the words in lived life, out of the moment Gods there arises for us with a single identity the Lord of the voice, the One.»

It is hinted at even in the poem, «Buckle Street,» which serves as the book's epigraph.

In making the word to become flesh the interpreter makes herself or himself into the word, takes the word as poem into her or his body, continues the creation process begun by the poet (Bozarth - Campbell, 52).

Just as the Eden so gloriously portrayed in book 4 is dismissed by Gabriel as «this rock» in book 11, so does the poem in the end forsake its own verbal glories and descend to a «subjected plain»: «Milton's epic depicts the relinquishing of its own imaginative plenitude and riches, the end of epic poetry itself.»

John of the Cross, for example, used the Song in the sixteenth century as the basis for a classic Spanish poem, «Spiritual Canticle,» which he composed while he was in prison.

But poems such as in the Book of Job, sometimes continuing to the length of two or three chapters, offer opportunity to study the matter further.

Alyosha, after all, at the close of the legend, declares to Ivan that the poem is «in praise of Jesus and not in his disparagement as — as you wanted it to be» (p. 305).