Word: poem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pfister ended his speech with a poem written by Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities Emeritus William Alfred and dedicated to the seniors of Kirkland House...
...another major focus of Black CAST--we try to get kids from the community involved," she says. "For instance, last year we had kids from North Cambridge Latin [an elementary school] come to Cabot House and perform their own works, whether it was dance or song or a poem they had written...
...that holds up beautifully not only on the stage but on the page. When Thomasina, hungry for a new mathematics, exclaims, "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell," we might have stepped into an Auden poem. When a formidable lady silences her brother by snapping, "Do not dabble in paradox, Edward, it puts you in danger of fortuitous wit," we can hear Wilde whispering, "I wish I'd said that." And for concentrated lyricism, the scene in which Thomasina bewails the burning of the classical library...
...urging him to strike against the weakened Kurds. Even the Kurdish people are becoming frustrated with their leaders. "This is the worst time in our history, because it is Kurd killing Kurd," says Shazad Saib, a Talabani representative in Ankara. "We are destroying our newly found homeland." A Kurdish poem laments: "Red roses are the blood of brother slain by brother. When will the mountain rose no longer smell of my brother's blood?" Perhaps never...
...tune that did come off very well involved a vinyl recording of Maya Angelou reading her Pulitzer Prize-winning poem, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." DJ Apollo sampled and scratched Angelou's voice over a relaxed beat one verse at a time, each one followed by emphatic Marsalis horn lines that cleverly reflected and refracted the intonation of Angelou's speech. The effect was very cool indeed...