Word: poemes
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...What better way to commemorate this tragedy than by cashing in with a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow? But Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes is outraged by the film, Ted and Sylvia. She has refused to allow the movie to quote from Plath's poetry, and she has written a poem of her own about it: "The peanut eaters, entertained/At my mother's death, will go home,/Each carrying their memory of her,/Lifeless--a souvenir./Maybe they'll buy the video...
...father had built a little cupboard for our records, and every night after dinner I would pick another symphony or tone poem to listen to. I would sit on the sofa in the living room and sometimes get up and conduct in my own way. I never had a baton. I had no idea what I was doing, but I was conducting. I had wanted to be a conductor since I started helping my father with his orchestra. When he was preparing at home for rehearsals, I would conduct and he would play the violin part...
...Dante Club] proves the vitality of the Divine Comedy not only in Cambridge 140 years ago, but today as well,” he says. “The issues of justice and truth that are at the core of Dante’s great poem and inspire the Dante Club, are as relevant today as they were in both 1300 Florence and 1865 Cambridge...
Standing at Memorial Church’s guilded-eagle podium, Prital S. Kadakia ’06 read John Gillespie Magee Jr.’s poem “High Flight” in honor of the dead astronauts...
...Prime Minister later this year. Erdogan, whose Islamic-leaning party won a landslide victory in November elections, had been barred from taking the top post because of a Turkish law excluding from public office anyone convicted of inciting religious hatred - as Erdogan was in 1997, for reading an Islamic poem at a rally. But the new AKP-dominated parliament lifted the ban, despite an initial veto by secularist President Ahmet Necdet Sezer. Erdogan will likely run in, and win, a local election in Siirt province, due within three months. The enigmatic populist can then officially take over from his close...