Sentences with phrase «verse a poem of»

A short verse A poem of love portraying the feeling of hope and caution.

In the first section, a free - verse poem of dense syllables and vivid images, a prehistoric tribe lacking written language embarks on a ritual of the hunt, climbing into a mountain cave to conjure the magic that will protect them and call up the beasts that will feed them for a season.

Not exact matches

Before the invention of the novel, verse provided the vehicle for throwing philosophical and theological truths into their enacted, experienced forms, which is why I've profited so much from medieval and Renaissance poems, especially those I've recommended, all of which are allied with the chanson de geste, tales of heroism and adventure that delight as much as they inform.

On a far higher level, intellectually and spiritually, is that very noble philosophical poem called the Wisdom of Solomon, and that still nobler monument of ancient Hebrew thought, the Book of Job, a dramatic dialogue in splendid and sonorous verse upon the theme of suffering and its place in a providential order.

There's an EB White story / free verse poem called The Door, in which he names a series of things that once represented hope.

When I first read Herbert years ago, I found his poems to «preach» too much for my liking; Country Parson, however, gives me new appreciation for the blunt morals of his verses.

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.

Lord of those writing lucid poems, Astrue's St. Aldhelm pleads: assist / Me, clumsy as I am, so I may show / Clandestine mysteries of things through verse.

Kirsch says, «It is the secular verse of Jack Donne — the love poems, verse letters, elegies, and satires — that really keeps his fame alive in our secular age.»

By some it is regarded as an original poem setting forth Krishnaism based upon the Sankhya - Yoga philosophy, but modified later by the additions in which the Vedanta is taught.73 Others think that it is an old verse Upanishad worked over by a poet in the interest of Krishnaism, after the beginning of the Christian era.74

Packed with hyperbolic, militaristic imagery, the poem is an acrostic, so the first word of each verse begins with a letter from the Hebrew alphabet in succession.

Superior to any of his verse found in the Granth is a poem that has been preserved in manuscript form.

Equally refreshing are Laura's motherly desire to have twins (provoking Paterson's sudden awareness of twins throughout the film), and the love poems Paterson writes to his wife — gentle verses (composed by real - life poet Ron Padgett) which mention heaven, and include the remarkable line, «unborn children fearing they will never see the light of day.»

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.

Packed with hyperbolic imagery, the poem is an acrostic, so the first word of each verse begins with a letter from the Hebrew alphabet in succession.

This is the burden of every verse, and is the secret, if there be one, of the poem.

«Bénédiction,» which he wrote years after the Satanic verses but which is the second poem in Les fleurs du mal, relates the abuse the Poet (the capital is his) endures from mother, wife, and indeed everyone else he turns to in hope of finding his love reciprocated.

(As Yeats once said, «It gave me the devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose.»)

Fourth verse of the hymn «Firmly I believe and truly», from the 1865 poem «Dream of Gerontius» - this verse is expunged from the version printed in the official breviary for Australia, Ireland, England and Wales.

The first verse sets the contrasts of «sweet and clean» returns and the «late - past frosts» which run throughout the poem.

The metaphors in the poem keep the wonder of renewal firmly fixed on ordinary human experience: the new life has to do with dew and rain and versing.

Normally, I wouldn't choose the book of Revelation as 2:00 a.m. reading material, but all night long I'd been chasing the broken pieces of a prophecy around my head — something about tribes and tongues and nations, verses I knew but couldn't quite remember, like a poem with missing syllables or a song with forgotten words.

Our kitchen table was a large giant oak slab, built to accommodate all eight of us children, as we huddled together to learn multiplication, Latin roots, Roman history and copy out poems and Bible verses in our scrawling script.

The following poems all deal with the issue of stillbirth and make lovely verses for memory cards or keepsakes.

In a series of poems Alison puts her interpretation of our beliefs into verse.

Duffy picked one of her own poems, An Unseen, while Riddell chose the classic Wilfred Owen verse Dulce et Decorum Est which he described as the «greatest war poem ever written.»

Quotes, bible verses, poems and song lyrics kind of fill my heart up.

These appearances led to nightclub and lecture dates, a popular comedy record album, and a slim volume of poems, It Could Be Verse.

Was an original ensemble member of the sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin's Laugh - In; best known for clutching a daisy and reciting a brief verse beginning with his trademark, «A poem, by Henry Gibson.»

It consists of my own original poems, a rhyming verse and an old ballad connected to Summer.

and verse by verse looks at the language and structure of the poem and how the poet...

With this particular effort, he wanted to encourage more reading of great poems, not more writing of adolescent verse.

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

RL.7.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.

In terms of the CCSS, students must be able to determine the theme poem, as well as the vocabulary (key ideas and details); understand structural elements of poems in terms of verse, rhythm, meter (craft and structure); and read and understand more complex poems (text complexity).

Experimenting with forms such as free verse, haiku, sonnets, ballads, and sestinas, Kevin writes both funny and serious poems about baseball, girls, and the recent death of his mother.

In a patchwork «quilt» of free - verse poems, the author recounts her struggle to become a writer growing up in 1960s Hong Kong.

There, you can record yourself reciting your favorite poem and share it with other verse - loving members of the group.

It's safe to say that most folks won't get the title's reference to the French amuse - bouche, but page 1 of this verse collection features the term, its pronunciation, and four definitions, including one of Larkin's own: «An appetizing little poem about food to be read aloud just before dinner or any time at all.»

Capturing the spirit of the verse and the beauty of the natural world, this handsomely illustrated, reassuring poem addresses God from the child's point of view.

In poems as various as the colorful melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard - boiled poems of twentieth - century noir, Killer Verse rounds up the most colorful villains and victims - from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men - ever to be immortalized in vVerse rounds up the most colorful villains and victims - from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard to Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Mafia hit men - ever to be immortalized in verseverse.

Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.

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.

Pandit Somraj's good friend, the poet Qaif Khaufpuri, when he grew old his poetry dried up inside him, an ulcer came on his leg, an open mouth that wouldn't go, one day it began reciting such sweet verses, his poems were trying to burst their way out of him.

A glowing, substantive picture - book biography in verse, this follows the reggae legend from birth to death, with the mostly chronological poems revealing a full portrait of the musician as Medina moves from personal details to wider themes.

In Almost Invisible Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Strand forgoes verse for prose, offering a transportive group of poems, each in the form of a short paragraph.

The premise of these short, fun verses is to take a single word (such as lemonade, pepperoni or playground), and make a short poem using only the letters in that word.

LEARNING WITH VERSE Over the last few years I have particularly liked books that combine poetry with nonfiction, such as Tracie Vaughn Zimmer's Cousins of Clouds: Elephant Poems.

Seventeen free - verse poems represent the points of view of fictional people traveling in a wagon train from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City in 1848.

Through a series of closely related, free - verse poems, Grimes offers a many - sided portrait of the first African American aviatrix, Bessie Coleman.