Sentences with phrase «on a poem by»

Convivio, like Vita nuova, is cast in the form of commentary on poems by its author.

Relying on a poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes about a carriage made by a deacon, Thomas tries to distinguish between a life that breaks down and (what would be for him a truly natural culmination) a life that wears out.

Set to the music of Tchaikovsky and based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin, the ballet is full of passion, suspense, and drama.

Keeping with the poetry theme, this 1958 short from director David Gladwell, based on a poem by Martin Armstrong, compares and contrasts life in rural and urban Britain.

Based on a poem by US author Ron Koertge, the film is dryly funny, as it explores the little and special moments of communication between a father and child and shows how seemingly insignificant things can actually carry great importance.

In the collection's penultimate story, a conflicted husband reflects on a poem by A.R. Ammons (One can't / have it / both ways / and both / ways is / the only / way I / want it).

Ian Bostridge is a tenor with long experience of singing Winterreise — Schubert's anguished, icy song cycle based on poems by Wilhelm Müller, told from the perspective of a young wanderer in unrequited love, a fleeting lodger in people's homes who is forever saying farewell to his love and heading out into the lonely snow yet again.

This year's theme is based on a poem by the German poet Friedrich Schiller which asks: «Beautiful world, where are you?»

We have a group show coming up in January that is based on a poem by Lydia Davis called «This Condition.»

Based on a poem by Keats, the picture drew Hunt into contact with Dante Rossetti, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in September 1848.

Among the hundreds of songs sung by Odetta, who died late last year (see the captivating video interview with Odetta in our «Last Word» series), there's one based on a poem by Ms. Roberts.

Not exact matches

Their words, carelessly spoken, spent the last 40 days in my home — getting creased and folded, worked over, brushed aside to make room for dinner, stepped on by a toddler, read by my sister, stained with coffee, shoved into a closet when guests arrive, blacked out, thrown away, turned into poems, and folded into sailboats and cranes and pigeons that now sit smiling at me from my office window.

Dante takes on Thomas» objections by claiming total veracity for his poem as he smilingly capitulates to them: he is, after all, only another lying poet, but one who nonetheless claims to tell «the truth,» and indeed literal truth.

Sure, some Christians «think for themselves» but, at least in some small degree, they rely on poems and fairy tales and, critically, what they are told by others are the «rules», to guide their behavior.

These, Astrue told me, he took on by way of penance for having spent so much time translating Tibullus» less - than - holy love poems, which Oxford probably will bring out in the next year or so.

The poem hangs on the berry - bush, When comes the poet's eye; The street begins to masquerade, When Shakespeare passes by.

This poet wonders what sense can be made of the death by drowning of five nuns on their way to a mission field, but his first major poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland (1876), shows his determination to overcome his doubts:

For those of us who find it impossible to cast a vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump on November 8, this poem by Artur Miedzyrzecki, written during Poland's Solidarity revolution, has a certain resonance:

But then the poem goes on to state about how the citizens of the city rose up and carried out a massacre of the Jews, and how this massacre was clearly God's will because it was accompanied by heavenly signs.

In «For the Union Dead,» a savage, beautiful poem inspired by the statue erected for Colonel Shaw on the Boston Common, he explains why he admired this Civil War commander of a black regiment:

This project, suggested to her by Robert Bly, energized her own writing: «I know that if I had not worked so hard on Akhmatova,» Kenyon remarked, «I would never have experienced that surge of power» that resulted in the poems in her second book, The Boat of Quiet Hours.

See an excellent study of dalit songs and poems by Paul Chirakarod and others, Dalit Kavithagal: On, Padanam (Tiruvalla, 1992), pp. 95 - 99.

At this point, the poem could have provided a mildly ponderous reflection on the fragility of fame (Lana Turner's star was waning at this point) or life, but instead the speaker humorously disassociates himself from Lana Turner by wrongly attributing her collapse to bad manners.

From the poem, Venus and Adonis by W. Shakespeare, who seemed to know better than most the difference between, biology and Spirit, what can be bought and sold on any street corner and what is priceless.

The monopoly of the English language was also broken twice, once in the poem by Richard Blanco - which included words in Hebrew, Italian, Sanskrit and Spanish - and again in the benediction by Luis Leon, Episcopal rector at St. John's Church in Washington, D.C., who asked for God's blessing on the president and vice president in Spanish, then translated it to English.

Google «frugal» (and then write a poem about it), and you'll turn up a seemingly inexhaustible listing of blogs by Christian homeschooling mothers, all devoted to making the family project work on one income.

Sometimes they were chronicles, histories of the world, poems, romances, but the majority were religious, booklets about Saints, or on the Art of Dying, instructing one how not to despair when faced by the tally of a lifetime's sinning; one should remember the repentant sinners in the Bible.

In closing this presentation, I'd like you to read and to hear a poem by Dorothee Solle that puts urgency on the matter of prophecy in a progressive church.

Inspired by a concept on the Chef's Table, our menu was a poem.

Other activities in four municipalities in Mindanao include forum on golden rice and organic agriculture, organic food and products fair, press conference, concert, cultural presentations (reading of poems on organic agriculture composed by farmers), t - shirts printing, dissemination of campaign materials, sharing of farmers» practices and innovations, boodle fight, and opening of organic trading post.

Upon entering you'll see on the wall a 12th - century poem by Yi Kyu - bo: «Put the leaves into soy sauce and eat them in summer, and pickle them for winter.»

«Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad» is a line from a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1875), based on similar earlier sayings.

I wish this would be on a commercial run on TV every day... I want to leard this poem by heart!!!

Would you reprint on Father's Day the beautiful poem, «I Had a Father Who Talked With Me,» by Hilda Bigelow.

They always begin by performing a play based on the Oscar Wilde play The Selfish Giant, following it up with their own sketches and poems.

Based on the Langston Hughes poem, it is illustrated by Sean Qualls in acrylic, pencil and collage.

Charlie King brought down the house at the Public House restaurant in Midtown Monday night by offering a sharp twist on the well - known poem «A Visit from St. Nicholas.»

At 55, Sakurai considered himself steady in a storm, the embodiment of his favorite poem by Kenji Miyazawa, with whom he shares an alma mater, Iwate University: «Strong in the Rain / Strong in the wind / Strong against the summer heat and snow / He is healthy and robust / Unselfish / He never loses his temper / Nor the quiet smile on his lips / That is the kind of person / I want to be.»

On the main body of the vase, one of Qianlong's poems appears, flanked by panels depicting flowers.

Last season, for example, excerpts from a moving essay by Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Hilton Als on iconic black author James Baldwin and his queer «children» provided the philosophical context, and prior to that, there was a poem by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, the British - Ghanaian painter and writer.

I enjoy also living outside of my gamer world by drawing, writing stories, poems, hanging with friends, shopping, traveling, and so on!

The words from a song or dating albanian men poem, and writing one word on each charm, or by making a different image on each one.

«The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975» is a fascinating documentary, with the help of some commentary from the present day, that contains footage shot by Swedish broadcast crews of interviews and speeches by black leaders with highlights including Stokely Carmichael interviewing his mother, Eldridge Cleaver in exile in Algiers, Angela Davis in a jail cell on trumped up charges, and one great poem I wish I could remember.

I was so inspired by the film seeing it a second time that I wrote a poem about it on Twitter (reposted below).

December 11, 2015 • Hear a deceptive take on the winter blues by way of a versatile choir, a young New York composer and a 150 - year - old poem by Longfellow.

In the TV spots section the 5 Tone Poems have been included which are short segments focusing on a main character in the movie accompanied by a short poem.

Based on the long - mooted Oxfordian theory about the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays and poems, this film undermines its own point by over-egging the story.

Lawrence has a poem titled «Love on the Farm», which could work as an alternative title for Lee's film — except that love is as far from the mind of its main character, twentysomething Johnny Saxby (played by Josh O'Connor), when we first encounter him as anything could be.

What makes this one worth buying is the new commentary with Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman, as well as the original poem and concept art the film was based on, read by Christopher Lee.

Other extras include a featurette on the Disneyland «Haunted Mansion» ride, re-done with Nightmare Before Christmas imagery, Tim Burton's original poem read by Christopher Lee, and a making - of featurette.