Halpin Frayser was not much of aphilosopher, nor a scientist. The circumstance that, waking from a deep sleep at night in the midst of a forest, he had spoken aloud a name that he had not in memory and hardly had in mind did not arouse an enlightened curiosity to investigate thephenomen...
a song or poem composed and performed in honor of a bride or groom. exogamy the practice of marrying only outside one’s tribe or similar social unit.— exogamic, exogamous,adj. gamomania 1.Obsolete,a form of mania characterized by strange and extravagant proposals of marriage. ...
He came into my life quite unexpectedly with all the chaos and unpredictability of a hurricane. He had been living in Manchester with a scruffy old guy who had reached the end of his tether and decided enough is enough. I’m too old to put up with such an unruly bad mannered rebel of...
power, and fame. Because we to be right and to be loved. Because we want to matter, because we know we’re going to die. And it takes a hell of a lot of love and humility to override our egos. But we usually fail. People suffer and die, often ourselves. We repent. We ...
This article proposes a "matter-realist" reading of tragedy: starting from Alice Oswald's 2019 Nobody, a poem about water based on the Odyssey and the Ores... PA Leven - 《Arethusa》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 Black lives and peripatetic practice in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Summer Will Show...
Other reviewers, however, praise Angelou's poetry for discussing social and political issues that are important to African Americans. For example Angelou's poem "On the Pulse of the Morning," which she recited at the 1993 swearing in of President Bill Clinton (1946–), calls for a new ...