Sentences with phrase «of narrative poems»

People's War in Nepal: Songs and Narratives From the Frontline is a collection of narrative poems and flash fictions set in Nepal during the time of People's War (1996 - 2006).

A great one - act play script version of the narrative poem, The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Not exact matches

Some good places to start: Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr., Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

In the past, poets had a much wider array of devices to shape their poems and delight attentive readers: argument, narrative, allegory, extended metaphor, metaphysical conceit, to name a few.

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.

The Iliad and Beowulf were writing in the genre of fantasy... «Once upon a time inky, pinky and bod got into a boat» The bible contains poems, historical narrative, precise directions that is why you do not compare it to the Iliad.

A long narrative poem appears here describing in some detail the ascetic practices of the Master Mahavira himself.

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.

In my opinion, it is a rich tapestry of egoless narratives, poems and letters.

In the footwashing narrative Peter represents the redeemed - those who in Vachel Lindsay's poem are «washed in the blood of the Lamb.»

Most famously, Evangeline is the title of a famous narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, about an Acadian woman named Evangeline who goes off in search of her lost love, Gabriel.

An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero.

And the fault must rest squarely on director and co-screenwriter Kirsten Stewart («In America»), who can't seem to decide whether she's making a narrative film or some sort of musical tone poem, and the biggest victims are the characters, who are largely non-existent.

The narrative in Child of Light, for example, exudes charm by unfolding in the form of poetry, making the story essentially a playable poem.

A tone poem as much as a narrative story, it ponders questions that may not have any right answer, needs that may not have any remedy, and the power of surrendering to both those propositions in order to move forward.

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?

Starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, Howl will combine three narrative threads: Ginsberg's formative years as an artist, the obscenity trial that followed the publication of Howl, and an animation of the famous poem itself.

Produced by Papadopoulos, the narrative feature focuses on Dickinson's early life as a schoolgirl, and on her later years in Amherst as a tortured artist who saw but seven of her poems published in her lifetime.

In a similar style to his previous feature Beginners (which earned Christopher Plummer an Oscar in 2012), the director foregoes a straight narrative in favour of creating a movie which feels almost like someone warmly re-living the vital moments of their life, a visual poem or essay about the influences — the era, the people you know, the music and literature you consume — that shape one's identity.

The secret to the adaptation is that the poems are pieces of a larger narrative.

A collection of great Narrative Poems to use in your classroom for «educational purposes» or to just enjoy for the pure love of reading!

The poem they perform — a piece called «Black Girl Magic» — is a celebration of black female identity and a protest against an education system entrenched in a white - dominant narrative that doesn't serve their cultural and socio - emotional needs.

Paul Revere, American Patriot Submitted by Steven Vetter Students learn about Paul Revere by examining first - person accounts, works of historical fiction, a popular narrative poem, and other resources.

To demonstrate knowledge of narrative comprehension, one student might decide to build a diorama, another to create a book cover, and others to enact a role - play or write poems.

«The Wreck of the Hesperus» is a narrative poem about an arrogant ship captain (skipper) who takes his daughter on an ill - f...

The «Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass» and poems by Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, which the teachers currently introduce in high school, were labeled middle - school texts.

Though the course emphasizes expository essays, students also craft poems, short works of fiction, and personal narratives.

Narrative Magazine awards a US$ 4000 new and emerging writers» prize for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one - act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published in the magazine.

Each poem and painting visually portrays a rich narrative of what life is like for current youth on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

First - person narrative poems focus on the last day of high school, when a distraught history teacher holds his seniors hostage.

Whether new to The Iliad or familiar with its riches, listeners are in for an unexpected treat with this splendid abridged audio of Lombardo's 1998 translation, which employs modern language and colloquial jargon without sacrificing the majesty of the classic poem or the narrative's well - loved images and metaphors.

AN AWESOME ANTHOLOGY Spanning centuries and cultures, Kwame Alexander's new collection, Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets (ages 8 to 12), is a delightful survey of verse forms and narrative voices.

The first known recording of this expression is in Piers Plowman, a narrative poem believed to have been written by William Langland between 1360 and 1387.

And it includes an amazing rhythmic poem that describes the birth of Earth's Children and plays its own role in the narrative of The Shelters of Stone.

A set of Ida's narrative poems is titled «Mnemosyne,» whom Paul quickly recognizes as «the Titaness Mnemosyne, goddess of memory and mother of the Muses.»

It is a city tucked in the pockets of Nigerian writers around the world, offered back to the world by this diverse, talented group in their short stories, novels, poems and many other narrative forms.

Written in accessible, short free - verse poems, Hà's immediate narrative describes her mistakes — both humorous and heartbreaking — with grammar, customs, and dress (she wears a flannel nightgown to school, for example); and readers will be moved by Hà's sorrow as they recognize the anguish of being the outcast who spends lunchtime hiding in the bathroom.

Here, the poems often originate in a painting or in the details of an artist's or a writer's life Vermeer, Marie Curie, Andrew Wyeth, Zelda Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka and they are alive with the narrative imagery that Beirds is so good at evoking.

And it clearly is an art, for a great literary biography (Atlas singles out Richard Holmes» Shelley: The Pursuit) can, and ideally should, sing with the narrative resonance of the great novels or poems that its subject produced.

After a discussion about significant themes in the personal narratives in Making It Home, students can write found poems in which they use words from a selection of text and rearrange and edit them in poetic form, capturing the essence of the narrator's experience.

The quarto ends with «A Lover's Complaint», a narrative poem of 47 seven - line stanzas written in rhyme royal — though some scholars have argued convincingly against Shakespeare's authorship of the poem.

The $ 4,000 Narrative Prize is awarded annually for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, or work of literary nonfiction published by a new or emerging writer in Narrative.

Jonas's work is a tapestry of filmic and spoken narratives, full of poems, songs, myths, animals and birds.

In 1952, Buffet illustrated Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror, a long narrative prose poem now considered one of the foremost examples of Surrealist writing.

Vertigo Sea has as its narrative spine two remarkable books: Herman Melville's Moby - Dick (1851) and Heathcote Williams» epic poem Whale Nation (1988), a harrowing and inspiring work which charts the history, intelligence and majesty of the largest mammal on earth.

Alongside these works, Dumas will debut an expansive series of works on paper originally created for a recent Dutch translation by Hafid Bouazza of William Shakespeare's narrative poem Venus and Adonis (1593).

Alongside these works, Dumas debut an expansive series of works on paper originally created for Dutch translation of William Shakespeare's narrative poem «Venus and Adonis» (1593) by the Moroccan - Dutch writerHafid Bouazza.

Echoing N. Dash's evocations of landscape, a recording of Giorno reading his poem «THERE WAS A BAD TREE,» which weaves a dynamic narrative around the life of a tree, will play in the gallery.

Titled Myths & Mortals, the exhibition will debut an expansive series of works on paper originally created for a recent Dutch translation of William Shakespeare's narrative poem Venus & Adonis from 1593 by Hafid Bouazza.

Her strange, deeply personal poems reframe traditional narratives of art history.