Download or read book Odes from a Cluttered Mind written by Suniminipaw and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within is a collaboration of serious, spiritual, humorous, cute, thought-provoking selections that, because they have a tendency to rhyme, are classified as odes. Subject matter covers everything including friendship, love, romance, death, relationships, pets, and life. Most have a bit of a twist at the end--thanks to years of admiring Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling, and then because I'm a comic, I have to make you laugh or at least smile, and because I'm philosophical, I have to make you think.
Download or read book Odes from a Cluttered Mind Vol II written by SuniMiniPaw and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within is a collaboration of serious, spiritual, humorous, cute, thought-provoking selections that, because they have a tendency to rhyme, are classified as odes. Subject matter covers friendship, love, romance, death, relationships, pets, and life. Most have a bit of a twist at the end--thanks to years of admiring Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling, and then because I'm a comic, I have to make you laugh or at least smile, and because I'm philosophical, I have to make you think.
Download or read book Ode to Motherhood written by Franklin W. Douglas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-08-18 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers sadly do not often receive the praise they deserve for their self-sacrifice and hard work. Franklin Douglas sings of their wondrous works in his new poetry collection Ode to Motherhood. Via the medium of forty-five poetic short stories, he captures the philosophical and moral essence of mothers’ emotions. Through vivid, vibrant prose, Douglas outlines the characteristics of earth’s mothers and gives credence to the care, beauty, and purity of motherhood. His words resonate with all readers who have been touched by a mother’s love, especially those who walk life’s path of conscious seeking. These poems are genuine and true. Douglas hopes to educate the generations to come through his insights. His poems are minimemoirs that pay homage to both the biological as well as voluntary mothers of the world. Mothers are to be celebrated for their hard work and endless devotion. Setting the tone for children and adults of all ages, embrace the mothers in your life and thank them for all they’ve done.
Download or read book The Ode of the Moonchild written by Raksha and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of 23 poems touching varied aspects of life and love. It’s an amalgamation of feelings, sentiments and tenors. It passionately talks about the varied impressions the poet has gathered over a period of time. The poems are a collage of love, despair, happiness, joy, the abstract and the like each bringing out a different emotion. The poet tries to unfold slowly and gradually the various facets of human nature through different junctures of life.
Download or read book Ode to My First Car written by Robin Gow and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the critically praised author of A Million Quiet Revolutions, this YA contemporary sapphic romance told in verse is about a bisexual teen girl who falls in and out of love over the course of one fateful summer. It’s a few months before senior year and Claire Kemp, a closeted bisexual, is finally starting to admit she might be falling in love with her best friend, Sophia, who she’s known since they were four. Trying to pay off the fine from the crash that totals Lars, her beloved car, Claire takes a job at the local nursing home up the street from her house. There she meets Lena, an eighty-eight-year-old lesbian woman who tells her stories about what it was like growing up gay in the 1950s and ’60s. As Claire spends more time with Lena and grows more confident of her identity, another girl, Pen, comes into the picture, and Claire is caught between two loves–one familiar and well-worn, the other new and untested.
Download or read book The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary written by Catherine Gray and published by Aster. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author** Life-affirming - THE TELEGRAPH Wonderful - INDEPENDENT She made it her mission to learn how to be default happy rather than default disgruntled - RADIO 4 - WOMAN'S HOUR Take a leaf out of Gray's book and be kinder to yourself by appreciating life just as it is - IRISH TIMES This book came to me in an hour of need - during lockdown when I had to focus on the positive, appreciate simple things, not lose my shit, and value each day. It was a pure joy for me and held my hand - SADIE FROST Interesting and joyful. Lights a path that could help us to build resilience against society's urging to compare life milestones with peers - LANCET PSYCHIATRY Underwhelmed by your ordinary existence? Disillusioned with your middlin' wage, average body, 'bijou' living situation and imperfect loved ones? Welcome to the club. There are billions of us. The 'default disenchanted'. But, it's not us being brats. Two deeply inconvenient psychological phenomenons conspire against our satisfaction. We have negatively-biased brains, which zoom like doom-drones in on what's wrong with our day, rather than what's right. (Back in the mists of time, this negative bias saved our skins, but now it just makes us anxious). Also, something called the 'hedonic treadmill' means we eternally quest for better, faster, more, like someone stuck on a dystopian, never-ending treadmill. Thankfully, there are scientifically-proven ways in which we can train our brains to be more positive-seeking. And to take a rest from this tireless pursuit. Whew. Catherine Gray knits together illuminating science and hilarious storytelling, unveiling captivating research showing that big bucks don't mean big happiness, extraordinary experiences have a 'comedown' and budget weddings predict a lower chance of divorce. She reminds us what an average body actually is, reveals that exercising for weight loss means we do less exercise, and explores the modern tendency to not just try to keep up with the Murphys, but keep up with the Mega-Murphies (see: the social media elite). Come on in to this soulful and life-affirming read, to discover why an ordinary life may well be the most satisfying one of all.
Download or read book Poems of Love Life and Laughter written by Marian Bythell and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the successful publication of her two holiday journals, Marian Bythell has now turned her passionate pen to poetry. Concentrating on the essential three Ls – Love, Life and Laughter – she has produced a considered collection of rhyming verse.
Download or read book Songs Odes and Other Poems on National Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Keats s Odes written by Anahid Nersessian and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten over-like this world, and some of the people in it." In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes. Some of them-"Ode to a Nightingale," "To Autumn"-are among the most celebrated poems in the English language. Anahid Nersessian here collects and elucidates each of the odes and offers a meditative, personal essay in response to each, revealing why these poems still have so much to say to us, especially in a time of ongoing political crisis. Her Keats is an unflinching antagonist of modern life-of capitalism, of the British Empire, of the destruction of the planet-as well as a passionate idealist for whom every poem is a love poem. The book emerges from Nersessian's lifelong attachment to Keats's poetry; but more, it "is a love story: between me and Keats, and not just Keats." Drawing on experiences from her own life, Nersessian celebrates Keats even as she grieves him and counts her own losses-and Nersessian, like Keats, has a passionate awareness of the reality of human suffering, but also a willingness to explore the possibility that the world, at least, could still be saved. Intimate and speculative, this brilliant mix of the poetic and the personal will find its home among the numerous fans of Keats's enduring work.
Download or read book Old and New Poems written by Donald Hall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers poems from each period of Hall's career, including "The One Day," the long poem that won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Download or read book The English Ode from Milton to Keats written by George Nauman Shuster and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rapt written by Winifred Gallagher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The behavioral scientist author of Just the Way You Are presents a provocative argument that the quality of one's life is directly related to the focus of one's attention, drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience and psychology to cover such topics as the human capacity for training concentration, the ways in which the creative mind thinks, and why people deliberate on the wrong factors when making big decisions.
Download or read book The Fictional Ode written by Clarence G. Hanley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like coffee, I was perking I had something that I wanted to say that I had not said in my first book, An Ode to Satire. I wanted to say more about the Simpsons saga. Many had indicated and with good reason - that the Simpsons trial was a very good sampling of the world that we lived in thinking that it was a matrix of race and color, money and influence, sports, etc.; but I also knew that every lifes matrix in America, was not a monolithic one that it was more of a compilation of many American factions, and a mixture of Americas human complications religion, faith, race, and past history. Those who had indicated that the Simpson Trial was simply a sampling of the world we live in, had some premise of value - but it goes deeper than the surface. That case in evidence had sparked an ongoing nature of our society at large - especially at that time in the late 1990s, just as it has now; and not to forget that most all are immigrants in this country, from almost every nation in the world not meant to be an indictment however; but
Download or read book Brains Confounded by the Ode of Ab Sh d f Expounded written by Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined” urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbīnī describes the three rural “types”—peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion, and rural dervish—offering anecdotes testifying to the ignorance, dirtiness, and criminality of each. In Volume Two, he presents a hilarious parody of the verse-and-commentary genre so beloved by scholars of his day, with a 47-line poem supposedly written by a peasant named Abū Shādūf, who charts the rise and fall of his fortunes. Wielding the scholarly tools of elite literature, al-Shirbīnī responds to the poem with derision and ridicule, dotting his satire with digressions into love, food, and flatulence. Volume Two of Brains Confounded is followed by Risible Rhymes, a concise text that includes a comic disquisition on “rural” verse, mocking the pretensions of uneducated poets from Egypt’s countryside. Risible Rhymes also examines various kinds of puzzle poems, which were another popular genre of the day, and presents a debate between scholars over a line of verse by the fourth/tenth-century poet al-Mutanabbī. Together, Brains Confounded and Risible Rhymes offer intriguing insight into the intellectual concerns of Ottoman Egypt, showcasing the intense preoccupation with wordplay, grammar, and stylistics and shedding light on the literature of the era. An English-only edition.
Download or read book Psychological Projection in Six Romantic Poems English and American written by Harry B. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems of Nation Anthems of Empire written by Suvir Kaul and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire, Suvir Kaul argues that the aggressive nationalism of James Thomson's ode "Rule, Britannia " (1740) is the condition to which much English poetry of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aspires. Poets as varied as Marvell, Waller and Dryden, Defoe, Addison, John Dyer and Edward Young, or Goldsmith, Cowper, Hannah More and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, all wrote poems deeply engaged with the British-nation-in-the-making. These poets, and many others like them, recognized that the nation and its values and institutions were being defined by the expansion of overseas trade, naval and military control, plantations and colonies. Their poems both embodied, and were concerned about, the culture and ideology of "Great Britain" (itself an idea of the nation that developed alongside the formation of a British Empire). Poems in this period thus flaunt various images of poetic inspiration that show poetry and culture following triumphantly where mercantile and military ships sail. Or sometimes, more self-aggrandizingly for the poet, they enact the process by which the Muses use their powers to inspire and show the way. Even at their most hesitant, these poems were written as interventions into public discussion; their creativity is tied up with that desire to convince and persuade. Finally, as Kaul writes, it is their encyclopedic desire to incorporate new experiences, visions, and values that makes these poems such fine guides to the world of poetry in the long years in which "Great Britain" was consolidated as an empire, at home and abroad.
Download or read book Horace across the Media written by Karl A.E. Enenkel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores various perceptions, adaptations, and appropriations of Horace in the Early Modern age across textual, visual and musical media. It thus intends to advocate an interdisciplinary and multi-medial approach to the exceptionally rich and variegated afterlife of Horace.
