In The Oven Bird, Robert Frost uses the imagery of a bird's song to explore the complexities of the human condition. The poem is a meditation on time, mortality, and the power of music to move us. The poem's structure, with its rhyming couplets and iambic pentameter, gives it a sense...
The first two lines of the poem set the tone and mood for the rest of the poem. Frost begins by stating that he has been acquainted with the night, which suggests that he has a deep familiarity with the darkness and solitude that comes with it. The word "acquainted" also implies a se...
1796 - Robert’s youngest son, Maxwell Burns, is born to Jean on the day of the poet’s funeral. Research Notes (1) The book "No' Rabbie Burns: Poetry the Bard Would Not Have Put His Name To", by Stuart McLean, includes these examples ... ...
When Frost's father died in 1884, his will requested that he be buried in New England. His wife and two children, Robert and Jeanie, went east for the funeral. Lacking funds to return to California, they settled in Salem, Massachusetts, where his grandfather had offered them a home. Even...
Funeral services will be private, his daughter said. Borge made a career of falling off piano stools, missing the keys with his hands and getting tangled up in the sheet music. One of his inspirations was a pianist who played the first notes of the Grieg A Minor Concerto and then fell ...
_Sordello_, in 1840 (long before the effort of which we speak began), was such a poem--the history of a specialised soul, with all its scenery and history vividly mediæval. Think of the _Spanish Cloister_, _The Laboratory_, _A Grammarian's Funeral_, the _Bishop orders his Tomb ...
The funeral was held on the 25th July, the day that his son Maxwell was born to Jean Armour. Robbie Burns was buried in a quiet corner of St. Michael’s Churchyard in Dumfries but funds for a mausoleum on the church grounds were raised by his fans and in 1817 he was moved into the...
- This Funeral Is For The Wrong Corpse (The Mekons) - The Immortal Rich (T.V. Smith) - Train On The Move (Barb Jungr) - Not A Bad Week For The People (Robb Johnson) - Sarajevo (Attila the Stockbroker) - Rechem (L.L.) - One Flag (Red Alert) - Cut Me Loose (Dave Brown) ...