Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poem I actually first remember I wrote when I was about ten. It's one of those rhyming things but it was fun. It was one of those Easter poems, about a rabbit who had one droopy ear and how he solves his problem. It was a narrative poem, you know...
...Corinth who has banished Medea, appears as a sleazy politico with a carefully blow-dried hairdo. He thunders that "the best things in life are family and country." Vilhauer's glib, funny performance suggests Medea as a figure in rebellion against conventional morality and "family values" fascism. A contemporary poem which the chorus recites to open the show similarly connects Medea's story to issues of abortion and societal restrictions on women...
...20th century, particularly in its first five decades, impressively reflected and helped shape the sensibilities of an age that saw itself as distinct, cut off from its past. "These fragments I have shored against my ruins," wrote T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922), the poem that most typifies its age. A similar attitude prevailed among a number of revolutionary artists: Picasso in art, Stravinsky in music, Joyce in literature, Balanchine in ballet and Mies Van Der Rohe in architecture. Each of these men mastered the techniques of his trade and then saw fit to wrench old forms into previously...
After the speeches, performers sang a Somalian folk song and recited a poem in praise of the relief efforts, and candles were passed out to audience members. The speakers then took up a banner which read "Help the Starving People of Somalia" and led a procession from City Hall to Harvard Square...
...landscape of Australia is a predominant theme in Wallace-Crabbe's poetry, both as an object of beauty in itself and as a mirror of human emotion and thought. As Wallace-Crabbe explained, his poetry attempts to "render the nature of consciousness in tangible images." In his poem "Mind," for example, the inner conflict of the mind is reflected in the speaker's surrounding in the Australian bush...