Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discuss the nature of the Biblical prophet, while the quotation itself receives only minor attention. And, while famous Psalm 137--"By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept"--allows Kugel to comment on exile as well as to question the traditional dating and translation of the poem, he fails to address why this particular psalm has achieved so much literary fame...
...Read Su Tung-po poem New Year's Eve: Spending the Night Outside Chang-chou City (1073). "No one here speaks my dialect: I long for home... I thank the flickering torch that doesn't refuse/ to keep me company on a lonely boat through the night...
...poor wife Alison stood by him for 25 years, gave him three beautiful daughters and sacrificed her career and her personal life. Howard gave her wealth, material comfort and a love poem in the form of a hit movie...
...Mourning After, which opened at Harvard last weekend is an original adaptation by Ryan McGee '98 of two literary pieces, "Shattered Skulls," a chapter from NYU professor Peggy Phelan's book Mourning Sex and Tony Kushner's poem "The Second Month of Mourning." Taking place in only two scenes, the play focuses on complex mourning processes by allowing the audience to witness the private monologues of the characters which are directed towards those persons whom they mourn...
...mother either sensed my discomfort or was just really mad about the poem thing, because she sat me at a table as far away from her as possible. This helped keep me from hearing the speeches, the theme of most of which seemed to be how she was never happier in her life. It was during these speeches I discovered that if I took big enough bites of bruschetta, I couldn't hear a thing...