From blue to rose The death of a close friend in 1901 marked the start of Picasso's "Blue Period". In about three years, blue was the most common color in his paintings and his works mainly about themes such as sadness, poverty(贫穷), and loneliness. In 1903, he painted one of his...
birth and death coexist(共存) William Faulkner— awarded a Nobel Prize American South, Yoknapatawpha Country ,imprisonment in the past Stream of consciousness, multiple points of view, 内心独白, 时序颠倒 The Sound and the Fury喧嚣与骚动,As I Lay Dying我弥留之际,Absalom, Absalom押沙龙,押沙龙!
in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a young girl, she lived with her mother and younger brother at the home of her grandparents, who had been born slaves. They shared their life stories with Rosa. She heard how her grandfather...
'To the bitter death!' He took the old man by the hand and squeezed it, and says, 'That secret of your being: speak!' 'Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!' You bet you, Jim and me stared this time. Then the duke says: 'You are what?' 'Yes, my friend, it is too ...
ivory[ˈaɪvəri] n.[U] 象牙 brow[braʊ] n.[C] 额头 ≈ forehead “The Prince gives a ball to-morrow night,” murmured the young Student, “and my love will be of the company. If I bring her a red rose she will dance with m...
Her only living daughter was with her when she died, and I was told that in death her face was that of a child. I like to think of her as a child. When she was born, the Kiowas were living the last great moment of their history. For more than a hundred years they had ...
she asked, feeling sick to death. "A boy." And she took consolation in that. The thought of being the mother of men was warming to her heart. She looked at the child. It had blue eyes, and a lot of fair hair, and was bonny. Her love came up hot, in spite of everything....
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[b] was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabet...
and goes, 10And lovely is the rose;The moon doth with delightLook round her when the heavens are bare;Waters on a starry nightAre beautiful and fair; 15The sunshine is a glorious birth;But yet I know, where'er I go,That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth.Now, while ...
No bronze cannon can sound over the land at the birth of a royal child as the thunder sounded at the death of the old oak. The rain streamed down; a refreshing wind was blowing; the storm had gone by, and there was quite a holiday glow on all things. The old clergyman spoke a ...