Word: poemes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love. Nowadays Vinoba Bhave reads only three books: Euclid's Elements, Aesop's Fables and the Bhagavad Gita. For him, as for Gandhi, the Bhagavad Gita is the supreme book of human guidance. This great Sanskrit poem, imbedded in a larger work called the Mahabharata, is later than the Vedas and the Upanishads, and fills a role in the Hindu holy books something like that of the New Testament in the Bible. During one of his jail terms, Vinoba lectured every Sunday on the Gita. He translated it into Marathi* verse, and this work sold about a quarter...
...return the Africans to Spain was to sentence them to death. A legal staff was assembled to defend Cinqué and his people. Sketches of Cinqué, suggesting a rare nobility of nature, roused public support in the North; friends of the Africans quoted William Cullen Bryant's poem...
...swallow does not make a summer," said Babcock, "but I pass it on to other young hopefuls for what it is worth. Certainly there is an indication that selection is made on some other basis than pure merit. But I hold no grudge against Poetry. I just selected a poem I thought was good and sent it to a well-known magazine that I thought worthy of testing. This is my last attempt at hoax...
Sunday night, the second annual Festival of Harvard Composers presented six works in a variety of forms and styles. I found Allen Sapp's Eight Songs to Texts by Robert Herrick the most appealing part of the program. The music not only established an appropriate mood for each poem, but also vividly illustrated their meanings. I don't think I'll ever be able to read "The Curse" again without thinking of Sapp's terrifying, almost screaming treatment of the opening words. Soprano Jean Lunn fully realized the emotional possibilities of the songs, and adjusted her tone quality, as well...
...with care, nurtured it through four fine stanzas, and then uprooted it poetically with a jarring last verse. Similarly, Benjamin La Farge, in his "letter To a Friend," includes phrases like "where old men snore" which may satisfy a demanding rhyme scheme but which destroy the tone of the poem...