Bittersweet film about a supply officer aboard a decrepit cargo ship during World War II who yearns for a transfer into a combat zone but is thwarted by the ship's captain, a petty tyrant. Forced to endure various humiliations in exchange for privileges, the crew engage in minor acts of ...
” Poet Stevie Smith used the simile as a title for a poem which begins with this and two other cliches to describe the subject of the poem, a girl named Mary: “Cool as a cucumber calm as a mill pond sound as a bell was Mary.” (Ed: The quote from the Smith poem has no ...
Report this poem READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES This poem has not been translated into any other language yet. I would like to translate this poem Poems By Victor Marie Hugo Luna A Fleeting Glimpse Of A Village Demain, Dès L'Aube... ...
Feeling of desperation … as if caught by a chain that was slowly winding up —Victor Hugo Feel like a picnicker who has forgotten his lunch —Frank O’Hara (I’m not feeling very good right now. I) feel like I’ve been sucking on a lot of raw eggs —Dexter Manley, of the Washing...
Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse".…… 10. The Red and the Black by Stendhal Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), subtitled Chronique du XIXe siécle ("Chronicle of the 19th century"), is an historical ...
A Mourning Poem for Lincoln Walt Whitman’s notes for a revision of “O Captain! My Captain!”, 1865. O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, ...
“Argonautica” (by Apollonius Rhodius) (++): Written in the III century BC, this book tells the story of the trip that Jason and the rest of the heroes on board of the ship Argo make in search of the Golden fleece (which is in the region of Colchis in the East of the Black Sea...
- Eskimo poem This webpage has been moved to a new URL.This webpage is now being maintained, updated, and expanded at the following new location:http://www.egreenway.com/reason/vision.htm. Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life...
These lines appear in the poem “The Will,” by James Merrill (1926-1995), arguably the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century. Critics rarely mention that for most of his life Merrill was deeply involved with discarnate entities on a Ouija board, and that ...
Ian went on to outline the city’s coat of arms that include a bird, tree, bell, and fish described in this Glasgow famous poem: Here’s the Bird that never flew. Here’s the Tree that never grew. Here’s the Tree that never grew. Here’s the Bell that never rang. Here’s the...