Sentences with phrase «longer poems»

We think it may be prudent to drop the minimum line length, but we'd still like to see at least a couple of longer poems just for the sake of diversity.

Below are selected verses from longer poems by five students that reflect the range of ability in my class.

His poems are often torrents of words, creating longer lines and therefore longer poems, although he also uses short - lined quatrains in some of his verse.

This word describes a long poem about a hero, or something heroic, great, even majestic.

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

Spenser's masterpiece, The Faerie Queen, is the longest poem in the English language — not something to try to swallow whole.

Part of the epic tale, Mahabharata, the 700 - verse Gita is the world's longest poem and takes the form of a dialog on a battlefield between a prince, Arjuna, and Krishna.

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.

Isaiah 24 is a long poem about final war.

Perhaps Kenyon's most troubling major poem is «Women, Why Are You Weeping» — a late, long poem about a trip to India and its challenge to her faith.

The Song of Moses or Miriam (15: 1 - 18) has usually been taken as a later expansion of the original, very ancient two lines attributed to Miriam in 15: 21, although some have more conservatively maintained the originality and antiquity of the long poem.11 In any case, we affirm its relative antiquity, subject of course to modification (for example, to accommodate the reference to the tenth - century temple in Jerusalem, vv.

Cross and Freedman argue that the long poem is in its entirety the «Song of Miriam» and in its original form dates from a time no later than the twelfth century B.C.

It has occasionally been argued that the reverse is true, that the short form represents the title or condensed summary of the original longer poem.

What of the relationship between the long poem and the preceding prose narrative» If one is in some significant sense dependent upon the other, priority lies with the poem.

5 F. Cross and N. Freedman have argued that the long poem preceding Exod.

Since I was very good at memorizing and reciting long poems, the teacher thought I would be good at playing a leading role in a play.

So, in the sound mix, we did a lot of work with «reverb - ing» sound in and out to help ease some of these transitions, make them seamless, make them seem like one long poem as opposed to a bunch of starts and stops.»

In the Classroom: In an interview in School Library Journal, Woodson noted, «My picture books are long poems really — I decide where the lines break and the flow of the story.»

«Mrs. Rummage's Muddle - Up Shop,» a longer poem, tells about a girl who wants a lollipop in a crazy shop belonging to a very mixed - up lady.

This book is one long poem that describes different spirals found in nature.

My leather baby book with Glennon branded on the front is one long poem written by my father and filled with pictures of my tender - faced mother holding my pink, flaky, braceleted hand.

It takes a lot of chutzpah to pull off a long poem in the first place, so if you have what it takes, we'd love to see it.

- the Trinidadian poet Attillah Springer wrote these words in her long poem for the exhibition catalogue.

Traps writes: «In some ways, [DeFeo's] work echoed the Beats: The Rose, in its making, is one continuous poem, bound up with the artist's body no less than Ginsberg's long poem, which takes the writer's breath as the singular measure of its lines.»

The backbone of Grosse Fatigue is a long poem delivered in the style of spoken word, the form of expression used to great effect in the 1970s by the New York musicians, The Last Poets.

In this way, the two exhibitions maintain more of a dialogue than a continuity, informing each other like the different sections of a canto in a long poem.

I tried putting long poems and writings into the paintings.

A long poem, Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt, will be released in Fall 2015, from Black Square Editions.

In 1812 he showed at the Royal Academy Hannibal Crossing the Alps with a quotation from his own projected long poem The Fallacies of Hope.

San Francisco poet laureate Jack Hirschman was commissioned by the Arts Center to write a long poem, «The Marioni Line,» for the show's catalog.

Not exact matches

Milosz's long testimonial poem also reveals his gnostic leanings.

First published in the early decades of the nineteenth century, it is a long narrative poem about a young woman of great beauty and culture, her misfortunes, and the burdens of karma; a work of genuinely moving brilliance, grim and sad at many points, but also somehow radiant.

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson — This book is a long - form poem about growing up in the Civil Rights movement under Jim Crow laws, and I could not put it down.

The poems in this case were canzoni, or odes, long lyrics of considerable artifice, which in De vulgari Eloquentia Dante claimed to be the highest possible literary form in the vernacular, lofty («tragic» is Dante's word for this) and serious.

We remember Montague as a wonderful lyric poet who produced poems that will be long remembered, all of them sharpened by a sense of loss that is both personal and cultural.

The poem begins with a restless longing for freedom, and an image of her digging herself out of an old masonry stronghold that a thousand years had built for her.

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.

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».

The second stanza, one long sentence, propels us toward the culminating lines of the poem to learn what the people see: «There in the sudden blackness of the black pall / Of nothing, nothing, nothing — nothing at all.»

Pascal longed to build a home for human beings in the world he inherited, he burned «with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite» — that is, to construct a poem like that of Dante which would locate human being in the new scheme of things.

Though long out of print now, More's plays and poems were immensely popular when they were written, selling out theaters and earning the plaudits of King George III.

Meanwhile, with Whitman, Donoghue indulges in especially snide remarks: If ««The United States are essentially the greatest poem,»» as the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass proposed, then, in this critic's opinion, «it is a poem long disfigured by stanzas featuring murderous adventures in the Philippines, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq (to name a few, with probably more to come).»

These are but moments - glimpses; a poem, a song, a photographic still frame in what is the long and rich story of our lives.

If the lines I have bracketed are allowed to stand, they might indicate that this promise belongs in the time of the exile, long after Micah; but the bracketed lines are such an obvious interruption to the flow of the poem that they must belong elsewhere.

Having religious longings of a sort (he swore that the later poems were as religious as the early ones, though secretly so), he wrote like a helpless saint; but having faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of moving mountains except by courage and incantation.

A poem of Rilke's about this paradox recalls «the Angel who appeared / to the wrestlers of the Old Testament: / when the wrestlers» sinews / grew long like metal strings, / he felt them under his fingers / like chords of deep music.»

Where Christ has specificity in his poems, it is at the end of a long process of encountering the hard and unnuanced substance of the world's surrounding.

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.

There were other acts of piety too: the affecting long essay Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, first published in the New Yorker (as were many of his later poems), and the memoir, «Portrait of a Father,» which first appeared in the Southern Review only two years ago.

I'll pretend I'm five years old and memorize all fifty states, the pantheon of Greek gods and a bunch of long, fancy poems.