Death, life, sadness, and hope; poets in the 19th and 20th centuries took these New Year's themes to great extremes as they wrote. Some took an optimistic view while, for others, it seems to have only led to de
However, we do ourselves a great disservice when we neglect the reading of poetry. John Adams, one of the founding fathers of the United States, commended poetry to his son John Quincy. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt committed their favorite poems to memory. Ancient kings were expe...
I’m self-taught, using the example of others. By the time I seriously thought about writing, there weren’t any writing workshops in my area, at least ones that didn’t focus on the genres I wanted to write in. English is my second native language and most books I read are in Engl...
For his Requiem, Goodall attempted rather to provide some solace for those still living, stripping back the Latin texts to a few phrases in each movement and laying beside them words from English poems from across the last 500 years. 6. Tolga Kashif: The Queen Symphony Composed in 2002 by ...
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Many were also inspired to write music about their homelands, such as Sibelius’s Finlandia or Smetana’s set of six programmatic symphonic poems, Má vlast, meaning ‘My Homeland’. Read more: 10 of the best Romantic composers in classical music history...
Poets such as John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Maya Angelou, and Robert Frost have written eloquent, unforgettable poems about the autumn season.
When four poems, satirical chant. [interpretation] China Wind, elegance, Ya and song, collectively known as the four poems, it is a kind of rich content and deep feelings of poetry, it is worth reading. 59, the poem has died, spring and autumn annals. Dont put appraise, good and evil...
The triad, being the fundamental principle of the whole Kabalah, or Sacred Tradition of our fathers, was necessarily the fundamental dogma of Christianity, the apparent dualism of which it explains by the intervention of a harmonious and all-powerful unity. Christ did not put His teaching into ...
Turning the Weirdest Poems of the 20th Century Into Opera Composer Matthew Aucoin on adapting a three-volume epic verse about cute gay ghosts, and where he’s going from there Aug 7 – Theodore McCombs interviews Like Alfredo, we’re now realizing what has transpired offstage. The pu...