Sentences with word «poems»

Throughout history, Christmas has inspired poems from believers and atheists alike.

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.

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.

McAuley was so disliked in the Kremlin, for instance, that a Soviet anthology of Australian poetry carried a preface announcing: «We deliberately decided not to include his poems.»

Just as the same letters of an alphabet can be turned either into nonsense or into the most beautiful of poems, so the same calories seem as indifferent as they are necessary to the spiritual values they nourish.

He bombarded her with bad poems on the themes that would run through all his life's work.

Vita nuova is the first work in the history of Western writing to take the form of commentary on one's own poems.

An atheist who has written nothing for years, Ka finds poems suddenly coming to him in Kars, and he attributes this creativity to a newfound love for God.

While the poems themselves may on occasion hint at this equation, the prose, which controls them and our understanding of them, eventually serves to release a secret: loving Beatrice was his way of finding Christ in his «new life» (a phrase that can hardly fail to bring to mind Paul's frequent insistence on our conversion from the old way of being to the new).

These are among the precipitating events of Zach Czaia's first book of poems, Saint Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota)....

Hopkins once wrote to somebody that he did truly want to see his poems published and that writers ought to have an audience.

To dwell with John's poems even for a little while is to see how he is constantly looking for light, observing light, speaking light, and bringing light to his readers and listeners.

He wrote his poems both in Urdu and Persian, particularly in Persian because he sought to address his appeal to the entire Muslim world.

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

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.

It was written in Latin, but argued that vernacular poetry, which had only begun in Italy 150 years before with the poems of St. Francis, was worthy of all the consideration previously bestowed on Latin alone.

Among his Persian poems, The Secrets of the Self and The Mysteries of Selflessness are the most thought - provoking.

The poems proceed in four sections according to the seasons, beginning with winter and ending with autumn.

Many of the poems are glimpses of Indians in schools not of their own volition.

They can function as catharsis and healing, and I see that with these young people and the poems they're writing.

He has written three books & poems and two of prose, including the forthcoming Scattering Point: The World in a Mennonite Eye.

Her first publication, Poems (1953),....

The poems are relentless in documenting the outcome: Native children forcibly removed from their families to boarding schools, forbidden to speak their own language, subjected to a bureaucratic regime with a toxic mix of condescension and missionary zeal.

Nowadays, though no one doubts that the dramatic detail of the Flight of Helen, the Wrath of Achilles, and the rest, is imaginary, the poems are treated as valuable sources of evidence for the history of Greece and neighbouring lands shortly before 1000 BC Even our own Arthurian legends, I observe, are now treated seriously by quite serious historians, when they are seeking for light upon the dark age of Britain.

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.

She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy — A gorgeous book.

From warblers to owls, 15 poems of birds designed to be read aloud by 2.

I went to my rickety Ikea bookshelf, swaying with the weight of books, and pulled out the slim volume of poems for the Incarnation called «Accompanied by Angels.»

The Book of Psalms seems to have been the hymn - book of the Temple liturgy — a book, quite literally, of «hymns ancient and modern», since it contains poems of the period of the monarchy (possibly, as some believe, as old as David), and others composed as late as the third century or even (as some suppose) the second century B.C.

22, but the internal situation is most vividly portrayed in the rich collection of contemporary poems, orations, and biographical anecdotes which we have in the Book of Jeremiah.)

Though no one would mistake Prudentius for Virgil or Dante, his poems have their admirers, even among contemporary scholars.

• 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's).

When reading poems in First Things that delight or disappoint you, feel free to comment.

When submitting, don't send poems that sound like national award winners, and if it reads like a «self - important audio essay on NPR,» send it to American Poetry Review instead.

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.

Where are those who are making up poems to celebrate the women who died due to pregnancy or delivery?

The magazine published fiction containing social gospel themes and ran a regular poetry column titled «Poems of the Social Awakening,» carrying works by poets Edwin Markham, Vachel Lindsay (a Disciple from downstate Illinois — a particular favorite) and the Century's own Thomas Curtis Clark.

«I have been reading poems, romances, vision - literature, legends, myths all my life.

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

Some citizens had written beautiful poems in homage to the swallows, while others argued that they soiled the streets and tried to get rid of them — with gunshots, buckets of water, or fireworks.

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.

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

Doug: a former student just published a book of poems entitled: It's Not the Truth if If Doesn't Hurt.

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.

And, given the mission of First Things, poems that deal with religion, politics, and their intersection — the hardest to find and write.

Today, «novels, poems and plays that had been fonts of empathy, and incitements to curiosity» have become «occasions of drudgery and toil.»

Shadowplay highlights the wealth of contemporary allusion surrounding Portia's espousal to Bassanio, designed to remind the Queen of her allegorical flirtation with England» and before Jacobs ridicules the idea of a lost level of meaning in which Bassanio represents Elizabeth's subjects, a reviewer who professes to respect the «various forms and genres and techniques of literary writing» will be aware that poems and plays in the mid-sixteenth century regularly celebrated England's courtship of the monarch, and that literary characters representing England were commonplace, though disguised in order to subvert the ban on discussing contemporary politics and religion.

1 — 4edited by ronald schuchard et al.johns hopkins, 3,728 pagesWith four of a projected eight volumes of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot now available in an online edition, alongside a two - volume edition of Eliot's poems finally....

Enjoy — and ask yourself what these great poems seek to teach.

«I first encountered Herbert's poems at the very beginning of the lower sixth, when they were a set text for my A-level English class....