This free verse poem is divided into three parts, tracking the speaker's visits to this woman's home over the course of about a year, at which point he breaks things off and moves abroad. Written during Eliot's year in Paris from 1910-1911, "Portrait of a Lady" is an example of ...
‘Portrait d’une Femme,’ or ‘Portrait of a Woman,’ is a poem about poetry. In it, Pound takes on one of the most important themes throughout the history of poetry, the female muse. He writes as many others have before him, about the beautiful features this metaphorical woman ...
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and of humility here and there, not of a servant's, yet of one who serves obediantly, and of a woman. The mouth formed as a mouth, large and accurate, not given to long phrases, but to express persuasively what is right. The forehead without guile and favoring the shadows of quiet ...
Yet others identify the young woman as Cassandra, Princess of Troy, who was cursed by Apollo with the gift of foresight while fated to never be believed. Other figures on the vase have been identified as figures from the homeric epics, including Ulysses, who is the second man to the left...
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Here, Pound introduces the image of the Sargasso Sea, a body of water in the North Atlantic that's known for its calm and stillness. This is an unusual metaphor for a love poem, especially one that's meant to celebrate the vitality of a woman. But Pound quickly undercuts the image by...
A significant attempt to portray an Israeli woman has been made by the Palestinian poet, Mahmüd Darwish. Over the course of three poems, written at different points in the poet's career, Darwish introduces and develops the character Rita, capturing in each poem a different facet of the ...
She suffered in her own experience as an eminent woman intellectual, and encountered special difficulties as a woman writer, in a time when even university libraries were sometimes closed to women. Her point of view was always progressive and open-minded, and she encouraged others to liberate ...
A Portrait of the Woman as a Young Artist, by Meg Miroshnik; Slapped Actress, by Emily Conbere; The Last Artist in NYC, by Polly Frost and Ray Sawhill; THE TRUE AUTHOR of the plays formerly attributed to Mister William Shakespea... P Barbara 被引量: 0发表: 2010年 Contents of volume...