Download or read book Last Post and Other Poems written by P. C. Stacpoole-. O'Longan and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Post written by Alwyn W. Turner and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the military bugle call, its use at the end of World War I on Armistice Day, and its effect in today’s culture. At eleven o’clock on the morning of the 11th November 1919 the entire British Empire came to a halt to remember the dead of the Great War. During that first two-minute silence all transport stayed still, all work ceased and millions stood motionless in the streets. The only human sound to be heard was the desolate weeping of those overcome by grief. Then the moment was brought to an end by the playing of the Last Post. A century on, that lone bugle call remains the most emotionally charged piece of music in public life. In an increasingly secular society, it is the closest thing we have to a sacred anthem. Yet along with the poppy, the Cenotaph and the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, its power is profoundly modern. It is a response to the trauma of war that could only have evolved in a democratic age. In this moving exploration of the Last Post’s history, Alwyn W. Turner considers the call’s humble origins and shows how its mournful simplicity reached beyond class, beyond religion, beyond patriotism to speak directly to peoples around the world. Along the way he contemplates the relationship between history and remembrance, and seeks out the legacy of the First World War in today’s culture.
Download or read book Last Post written by Philip Fell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Post is a poem, based on a dream I had one night of a soldier lost on an ill remembered civil war battlefield and developed from their into remembrances of all those who gave their lives in the many conflicts the world over. Contains a short history of the American Civil War battle that inspired the poem
Download or read book Dulce Et Decorum Est written by WILFRED. OWEN and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the War Poetry Collection written by Birmingham Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write Poems written by Gregory Orr and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent lyric poet at the top of his form writes indelibly of grief and love. In his twelfth volume, “master of the lyric poem” (Paris Review) Gregory Orr returns with a passionate exploration of the forces that shape us. Moving from personal trauma (“Song of What Happens”) to public catastrophe (“Charlottesville Elegy”), Orr seeks innovative ways for the imagination to respond to and create meaning out of painful experiences, while at the same time rejoicing in love and language. The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write engages the deepest existential issues with wisdom and humor and transforms them into celebratory song. FROM “AFTERMATH INVENTORY” My wounds? If, Somehow, I Grow through them, Aren’t they also a boon?
Download or read book Love Poems written by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether writing of longing or adultery, seduction or simple homely acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy brings to her readers the truth of each experience. Her poetry speaks of tangled, heated passion; of erotic love; fierce and hungry love; unrequited love; and of the end of love. It recognizes too the way that love can make the everyday sacred. As with all her writing, these poems are alive to the sounds of modern life, but also attuned to – and rich with – the traditions of love poetry. Love Poems contains some of Carol Ann Duffy’s most popular poems. Always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, Duffy finds words for our experiences in love and out of love, and displays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time.
Download or read book Border Security and Other Poems written by Bruce Dawe and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'With each change of poetic clothes, at each moment, [Dawe] displays us ironically, satirically, good-humouredly to ourselves, with a warmth and sadness for humanity's follies.' - Thea Astley, Three Australian Writers 'Bruce Dawe is that rare phenomenon, a natural poet with a superlative feeling for language.' - Geoffrey Lehmann, The Bulletin '...in him we have an individual and passionately perceptive writer whose work has already assumed its proper territory and whose terms are directed from the heart as well as the mind.' - Judith Wright, Poetry No. 4 (Series: UWAP Poetry) [Subject: Poetry]
Download or read book Flight written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategies of Ambiguity written by Matthias Bauer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy, or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a listener strategically perceives ambiguity, which may happen both synchronically (e.g. in conversations) as well as diachronically (e.g. when strategically ambiguating biblical texts in order to make them applicable to moral lessons). Another example is the question whether ambiguity awareness increases the strategic use of ambiguity in prosody. Moreover, the authors not only enquire into effects of ambiguous meanings but also into the strategic use of ambiguity as such, for example, as a response to censorship or as a means of provoking irritation. This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology, and aims at providing a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and contexts. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strong Is Your Hold written by Galway Kinnell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-04-09 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed poetry volume, the Pulitzer and National Book Award–winner explores lifelong love and the invisible boundary between life and death. Over his long and prolific career, Galway Kinnell established himself as one of America’s greatest and most popular poets. In 2006, after a decade-long pause in creative output, he delivered what would become one of his last and most celebrated collections, Strong Is Your Hold. The book’s title derives from Walt Whitman’s “Last Invocation”: “Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, / Strong is your hold O love.” In this collection, Kinnell gives us poems of intermingling with the natural world, love poems and evocations of sexuality, poems about his father, his children, poet friends, poet heroes, and mythic figures. Included also is “When the Towers Fell,” his stunning requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. This eBook edition of Strong Is Your Hold does not include a CD or audio download.
Download or read book The Camp of the Hallamshires and Other Poems written by James Rockcliffe and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bat Poet written by Randall Jarrell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-10-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way. Here in The Bat-Poet are the bat's own poems and the bat's own world: the owl who almost eats him; the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him; the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who can't make beads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell's funny, lovable, truthful fable. Best Illustrated Children's Books 1964 (NYT) Year's Best Juveniles 1964 (NYT)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
