Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitchell's forthcoming book Icelandic Legendary Sagas considers the evolution of some 30 Norse epics from prose texts into ballads. In this text, the literature expert examines the function of the poetic ballad in medieval society and the impact the genre had on society at the time, he says...
Better known, perhaps, for the non-intention in his music than for the randomness of his "poetic" speeches, Cage, 76, has worked for more than half a century to develop a method of music that frees him from the bonds of likes and dislikes, allowing him to seek the "purity of sound and thought...
...lectures in their poetic form don't make normal sense, so I feel obliged to give a normal rendition every once a week so people can ask questions," he says...
...novel's language mimics the magical realism and elaborate metaphors of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Pablo Neruda and effectively conjures up images of a land and people still bound by magic and ancient gods. Her metaphors are imaginative and often poetic. And the characters are at times fantastical, ranging from professional embalmers who travel around in wheel-chairs to silent Indians who disappear into the jungle at the blink...
...introduction, Cage described in poetic terms the process of choosing the book and newspaper excerpts to be compiled by a computer for the lecture. "It is as if I am in a forest, hunting for ideas," he said...