Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When his sharp-tongued wife protested against their dolorous way of life, he retaliated savagely, and soon their love match degenerated into the biting, scratching partnership that Meredith described in the poem Modern Love...
When Christmastime came, the monastery hummed with activity. Each monk was hard at work preparing a present for the Virgin. The cook baked an enormous many-tiered cake called "The Church Triumphant," the poet composed a miles-long Latin poem, Brother Arnaud presented Mary with the smallest illuminated Bible ever made, and Brother Thomas made an ivory carving of the Christ child that was so huge that a man had to stand away off to see it all. Juggler Cantalbert did not know what...
...glad you started the piece with Fiddlers Green. Skinny used to recite this to us sometimes, over a glass of "bourbon and creek-water," after another funny poem about the mechanized cavalry, Alowishius Gas N' Oil* ... I wish you could have seen him once as I did at a Hollywood party, after all the egomaniacs had pitched their latest promotion line, as he stood very straight and sang Should auld acquaintance be forgot with tears in his eyes, thinking of those men who died beside...
...same situation is touched upon in Kipling's poem The Mother-Lodge, where the membership, in addition to Protestant Anglo-Indians, a Jew and a Catholic, included a Hindu, a Mohammedan and a Sikh, so "we dursn't give no banquits / Lest a Brother's caste were broke...
name-Robert Penn Warren, a poet of proven gifts (Thirty-Six Poems, Selected Poems, 1923-1943), took more than seven years, off & on, to write this book. But for all the labor and the love he spent, it is a narrative poem which almost never achieves the emotional disturbance and enlightenment of true poetry, is too often content with such smothering lines...