Word: stanza
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...through Aeneas, Eurydice and Orpheus in various poems, yet her usage encloses the most tragic scenes in a modern living room. She retells: "In the end, Dido/summoned her ladies in waiting/that they might see/the harsh destiny inscribed for her by the fates." The phrase "In the end" dooms the stanza to almost blase speech, which is almost bucked by the phrase "that they might," until the stanza ends with the prepositional pile-up "inscribed for her by the fates." Flat language and idioms mixed with arch language and emplotment are characteristic of Gluck's voice, which, like too many contemporary...
...first stanza of one of Herbert's few poems that explicitly confronts twentieth century history, "The Ardennes Forest," he draws on the same notion of dream as a doorway to comprehending experience to also present a picture typical of his understanding of man and nature...
...Island, at the mouth of the Mississippi, we meet Irvan and Allen Perez, two cousins who belong to the Islenos, a Spanish-speaking people who first settled in Louisiana 200 years ago. The Perezes are fishermen. As they work, they sing slow, bittersweet a cappella songs called decimas--10-stanza numbers, mostly in Spanish, that tell the stories of their lives and communities. They sing of shrimp boats and muskrat trappers, bad weather and home mortgages. Their voices are piercing and pure. Allen sings...
Columbia--which had rushed the Crimson midfield with relative ease in the second stanza--upped the ante to 2-0 when captain Greg Smalling drove a groundball through traffic in the box from 20 feet out in the 47th minute...
...Crimson took Badawy's goal into the half, then exploded in the second stanza for four goals to blow the game open...