Sentences with phrase «of poems about her»

And yet, Ms. Freilicher, who is 73, still remains largely unknown outside the art world, appreciated mostly by other artists and by writers with whom she became friends as a young woman in New York during the 1950's, when Frank O'Hara wrote a whole cycle of poems about her, and Larry Rivers slit his wrists after she left him.

Celan was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, and before committing suicide in 1970, he wrote a series of poems about Margarete, a woman with blonde Aryan hair, and Shulamite, a Jewish woman with black hair.

To describe the nature portion of the human biosphere story, she concentrated on mixed media collage, and then put together a book of poems about these enigmatic images.

Currently, she is working on a collection of poems about her family in both the social context and the landscape of the West.

For older teens, a raw and bittersweet collection of poems about urban life can be found in Tough Boy Sonatas by Curtis L. Crisler.

This guru on the teaching of writing penned his own unsentimental coming - of - age collection of poems about growing up and dealing with bullies and parental conflicts as well as enjoying fun times with friends and pets.

[A] series of poems about grief, mother - daughter relationships, and the natural world that are as beautiful and varied as the botanical process that gives the collection its name.

Vivid imagery and an expert command of sound and meter distinguish this collection of poems about animals, filled with inventive metaphors that will startle readers into thinking about animals in new ways.

This year, between pleasant novels, I've enjoyed a history of anaesthesia, the biography of a famous author, an anthology of poems about the sea, and the collected letters of a British comedian.

A selection of poems about books, stories and reading, formatted into columns with clipart ready to print out and cut into strips for bookmarks.

Free speed dating websites Belongings is a collection of poems about dating, relationships and.

After all, Kees wrote a number of poems about a fictive alter ego under that pseudonym, an alter ego Astrue has described as merely some «mysterious, detached, urbane figure»:

She does even better: She herself becomes a kind of poem about what it means to really see the world.

Not exact matches

He recited a Yeats poem in a thick Irish accent, smashed a coffee mug, and then began reading from the Cluetrain Manifesto, a decade - old Internet marketing treatise about the power of communities.

Students will march, make signs, observe moments of silence, hand out orange ribbons to symbolize gun violence awareness, and read poems and essays about the personal scars gun violence has left behind.

Students marched, made signs, observed moments of silence, handed out orange ribbons to symbolize gun violence awareness, and read poems and essays about the personal scars gun violence has left behind.

She talks about the Bible being a collection of writing, poems, etc from a different culture than our own.

Thus his poems, which are ordered toward rendering the truth of things as they are, are quite different from his prose, which is governed by his consciously formulated ideas about how things ought to be.

We are not talking here about meaningful banality, but about the linguisticality of the world, a world overwritten with letters, refrains, myths, parables, poems, dramas, films, stories» the «linguistic event» that connects us with Being.

In other words, the problem with poems about «Grandma's hands» is not the subject matter per se but rather that the creator of such a poem has little regard for the actual hands of the lady in question.

But instead, Hayden took the tougher road of telling us about his particular father and their relationship, and in that particularity there is a power to impart universal truth about the complexity of family relationships, something no sentimental poem can achieve.

Besides The Daily Round, which Slavitt has translated, Prudentius wrote a number of other poems, including Psychomachia, an allegorical epic about spiritual warfare.

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.

Criticism can't come to grips with good poetry by talking only about the craft of the poetry; the poems themselves draw the critic into discussions of life and the world.

How about a poem to celebrate the unsung heroism of many a hard - working, devout father in our increasingly Feminist world?

We would concur with Mr Bogle about the excesses of feminism, as we expect would the poem's author, given its traditional familial focus.

And as we both now stand before this miracle, whose solemn silence can not be perturbed by human wrangling over mine and thine, whose awe - inspiring speech infinitely subdues all human strife about mine and thine, forgive me, I pray, the strange delusion that I was the author of this poem.

If this then is the case, and I went about to all men in turn, and all knew the poem, but each one also knew that he was not the author of it, can I then conclude: mankind must be the author?

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.

Except for George Chapman's Homer (a great Elizabethan poem) and Alexander Pope's Iliad (a work of high polish and manners), most versions of Homer in English are shackled by ideas about the Greek.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

a sample (speaking in particular about the Gospel accounts of Jesus): «I have been reading poems, romances, vision - literature, legends, myths all my life.

I always wondered how people could talk about the «authority» of a poem, or «obedience» to a poem.

The entire poem, so ecstatic about the discovery of the Christic mystery in another, and indeed in the relationship that two lovers forge, ends with an urgent invitation when the woman sings: Come!

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

When Robert Frost was asked about the meaning of one of his poems, he eaid it means what it says.

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

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.

Why don't you respond to that, rather than act like we're still talking about a collection of myths and poems and advice and letters?

While I usually enjoy First Things» sense of salon, the poem about John Calvin («Visiting Geneva,» February 2009) seemed cruel, forced, and needlessly provocative.

He quotes Todesfuge, Paul Celan's poem about the death camps, with its famous description of «black milk.»

The eshet chayil of Proverbs 31 is a valorous woman, it seems, because she is sacrificial: the whole poem is about how she serves her family and the poor.

I am happy to report that Quint does not engage the perennial if not perpetual controversy (around since the poem was published) about whether Satan is the hero of Paradise Lost.

In a poem by C. Day Lewis, an aged priest of an ancient cult tells a young priest not to worry about the results of his sacrifice.

What is significant from the standpoint of religion is that by the time these great poems were completed there had come about a very important set of changes in the religious outlook.

So far, everything seems in place — the Greeks can admire, praise, and even musically feel the greatness of a hero better than they would have without Homer» poem, and what is more, they might learn wisdom from it about that hero's limitations.

To examine Ivan's poem about the Grand Inquisitor is to find the same mixture of perversion and insight, rebellion and belief.

When he was a child, his mother had him memorize from the Book of Job the poem about the horse:

If you reveal that instead of «In God We Trust» we have poems about hockey on our money, they might invade!

I'm curious about your interpretation of the poem.