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Analysis. The first line of the poem, "I heard a fly buzz– when I died–" is intended to garner the attention of the reader. [4] Readers are said to be drawn to continue the poem, curious as to how the speaker is talking about her own death. [4] The narrator then reflects on the moments prior to the very moment she died. [1]
A.J. quotes the poem again in the series finale "Made In America". Jonathan Alter's 2013 political biography of Barack Obama, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies also cites Yeats's poem. A chapter is entitled "The Centre Cannot Hold", in the 2014 book of UK political analysis The Blunders of Our Governments by Anthony King and Ivor Crewe.
Anthony Storm's Commentary: The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air ; Wesley Walker Learning from Kierkegaard’s Three Godly Discourses on the Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air Discusses Kierkegaard's book in a blog post. Lillies and Birds - Spoken Excerpt by Søren Kierkegaard by Austen Penn YouTube video
Since its conception during the Tang dynasty, "Quiet Night Thought" remains one of Li Bai's most famous and memorable poems. It is featured in classic Chinese poetry anthologies such as the Three Hundred Tang Poems and is popularly taught in Chinese-language schools as part of Chinese literature curricula. It is also commonly taught as one of ...
Isaac Monroe Cline (October 13, 1861 – August 3, 1955) was the chief meteorologist at the Galveston, Texas, office of the U.S. Weather Bureau, now known as the National Weather Service, from 1889 to 1901. In that role, he became a central figure in the devastating Galveston hurricane 1900. The Isaac M. Cline Award, the NWS's highest honor, is ...
—Edgar Allan Poe "Not the least obeisance made he" (7:3), as illustrated by Gustave Doré (1884) "The Raven" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading "forgotten lore" by the remains of a fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A "tapping at [his] chamber door" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to "burning". The tapping is repeated ...
A Song in Storm. " A Song in Storm " is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It has been set to music by two English composers Edward German and Edward Elgar . German set the poem for voice and piano in 1916, with the title " Be well assured ," which is the first phrase of the poem. Elgar set the poem in 1917, with the title " Fate's ...
The Storm Before the Calm (stylized in all lowercase) is the tenth (and eighth international) studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released June 17, 2022, via Epiphany Music and Thirty Tigers, [2] as well as by RCA Records in Europe. Described as a meditation album, the ambient project was co-written with and ...