He was a famous composer and skilled bandmaster. ... Sousa wrote many types of music, from songs to orchestral suites, from operettas to waltzes, from marches to symphonic poems. ... Some of his most famous marches were written for the band. ... His most famous piece is "The Stars and Stripes Forever." ... Sousa, being so famous, has earned himself a place in musical history forever....
The poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats, is about life and death. ... This is meant to explain that the author believes that at death, it is not how famous one is or who one loves that is important because of all that will be lost. ... There are many personifications found through out the poem like "night's face", as well as metaphors such as "chance-hand" and "world's shore". The verse structure is pretty consistent until the last two lines of the poem. ... The poem reflects the literary period because it speaks of death. ...
Seamus Heaney is a famous Ireland writer who has written many award winning poems. Digging, is but one of the many poems from his collection, "Death of a Naturalist". In this poem Heany is exploring his ancestry and the roots from where he was brought up. ... In conclusion I think that the theme that has developed through the process of this poem is the need for self-acceptance. ... Heaney starts his poem the same as it was ended, with the same phrase. ...
This is displayed well in two of his more famous sonnets,My Mistress? ... The images that these words put into our heads are very true to his idea that his woman means nothing compared to nature, one of the main points of his poem. ... love poems. ...
However like many famous poets, many of her poems weren't published until after her death. ... " is an example of a comical poem. As this poem may be comical, at the same point it is a serious poem. ... After her death, her poems were published, and Dickinson became a famous poet. ... Papa above is a poem that really stuck out. ...
Shel Silverstein is one of the best childrens poets, and possibly one of the most famous in recent history. ... A good example of this is the poem 'Alison Beals and her twenty-five eels'. The illustration along the side of that poem shows how she uses each of the pet eels mentioned in the poem and puts a clear picture of what Silverstein is talking about into your head. ... Roald Dahs is not as famous for his poetry as he is for novel work which includes such famous books as 'Charley and the Chocolate Factory' and 'Matilda', but his poetry is not something to b...
Perhaps the most famous of Jonathan's works was Gulliver's Travels which he began work on in early 1721. ... In the poem "Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General", the theme revolves around the great Whig general's victories and in contrary, all the death that was brought upon fellow countrymen. ... Swift wrote "Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General" in 1722. ... The writers who critiqued Swift's poems rarely commented on his actual poems but rather on Swift himself. ... His stubborn personality showed through the most when he wrote his most fa...
But one of these poets emerges from this group of people; an influential poet of the 19th century was Walt Whitman, author of the famous poems, "Leaves of Grass," and "O Captain, My Captain.... After the war, and retiring from the government department, "he suffered a stroke in 1873" which had him spend the rest of his life in Camden, New Jersey, where he continued to write famous poems and articles. ... For many of his poems, such has, O Captain, My Captain, he writes in a dark, mourning tone in his poems, for example, "Fallen Cold and Dead" (Poetry Founda...
His poems expressed the impatience of African Americans to become treated equally. In his poem entitled "America", he speaks of the contradictory lifestyle that Americans lived. ... He became very famous for his poem "I Too", which also spoke of the same inconsistencies. ... A famous poem that he wrote on the struggles of black people was entitled "From the Dark Tower". I believe in this poem he discusses the inequality of blacks period, not only in America. ...
After reading many poems and researching Dunbar's life, I have found out that his love poems relate to his own love affairs. ... He went to school with the now famous Wright Brothers at Central High School. ... Paul is a very famous poet because of all the work he did throughout his life. ... He wrote many great poems, and newspaper articles. ... Paul became famous for his great writing technique and his ability to evolve normal life situations into his poetry. ...
Some of his more famous works are "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", "Eldorado", "Sonnet-To My Mother", and "The Conqueror Worm." These four poems are some of the most read and most criticized poems of today. ... This poem was not typical of Edgar Allan Poe's writing style as it is not a gothic poem, though it is a tragedy. ... It has been read by many people around the world and is perhaps one of the most famous pieces of literature by any author. ... In conclusion, Poe's poetry was very famous during its own time. ...
Anne Bradstreet, the most famous 17th century female poet, was only 18 when she arrived to Massachusetts Bay in 1630 on the Arbella. ... One of Anne's famous poems, Verses Upon the Burning of our House, was written after a disastrous fire burned down the Bradstreets' house in 1666, which left them homeless. However, the most famous poem that Anne ever wrote, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, was carried to England in a manuscript by her brother-in-law without her approval. Even though Anne did not give consent that this poem could be published, it brought her fame in both E...
With many contributions of famous writers such as Irving, Cooper, Bryant, and Poe composed the stories and poems which all of them had a great value in the American literature. ... In "The Devil and Tom Walker" Irving created this famous folktale by reshaping a German folktale that implicates the stereotype of a person who selling his soul to devil. ... How about the poems? Talking about the poems, the reader can recognize the poems of Edgar Allan Poe are romantic. ... Analyzing Poe's poem, the reader will see how he put all elements of Romanticism in the poem The Raven. ...
While containing the characteristics of an epic, Beowulf also has the elements of an elegiac and heroic poem. I believe this epic can be considered as a "heroic-elegiac poem-. ... Although this is found in Beowulf, the elements of an epic hero poem and an elegiac poem combined, more completely describe this piece of Anglo-Saxon literature. ... "Hrothgar, gray-haired and brave, sat happily Listening, the famous ring-giver sure, At last, that Grendel could be killed; he believed In Beowulf's bold strength and the firmness of his spirit - Not only was Beowulf confident and boastful of him...
The first poem is about the soldiers who gave their lives in the war and the second poem is about Mackenzie King. There are three things that two poems are different. ... The first poem used tons of imageries. ... Mackenzie King was become famous after he sent soldiers to the war, while the soldiers were killed and injured. ... These two poems are saying about horror of wars. ...
The Odyssey and the Iliad are two of Homer's most famous works. The two classic poems are also the two most famous and most beloved epic narratives in the world. ... The Odyssey and the Iliad are both epic poems, in the both figurative and definitive sense of the word. An epic poem, by definition, is a long poem that tells a story, often those of heroes embarking on adventures. ... Epic poems, such as the Odyssey, were never written down in their time. ...
"I think it is one of the dilemmas of being an American poet, that perhaps even if you are famous, you are more famous for being famous than if people know your poetry," Dunn mentioned in a past interview. ... Nine poems from that collection were recited, and over ten poems from additional collections. ... "The Last Hours," "Before the Sky Darkens," "Old Dogs," "Our Parents," and the book titled poem, "Different Hours" were a number of the poems read from his acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winning collection. ... Once he started writing poems seriously he realized that it was what he most wan...
., when he accidentally left three of his poems next to the plate of Vachel Lindsay, an American poet. ... Hughes was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance because he was one of the most talented and famous black writers in his time. ... Many African-Americans got famous during this time and more people in the United States and the world got to see another side of African- Americans which had never been seen before. ... He wrote numerous protest poems in which he used irony to get his points across to the reader. ... Hughes was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance becaus...
This piece of art happens to be the most famous artwork done by Sandro Botticelli. Venus is depicted as a long haired nude woman that drifts from the famous artworks of the period where nudity was not normally done and its divergence from the norm also appears to push it into fame. ... There are also clear references of Sandro's painting from Angelo Poliziano's poem Stanze per la Giostra. The manner in which the painting is arranged resembles a scene in the poem which appears to have been the theme behind the painting. ... The poem also happens to be a form of artistic creations whic...
Robinson has a famous triptych that is set to music, which portrays three Tillbury men living their lives in silent misery. ... On first reading this poem it made me feel sad. ... The poem reminds me of how kids and teens idolize movie stars and famous singers. ... This poem shows it's musical roots through rhythm and rhyme. ... In this poem, others place Richard Cory upon a pedestal. ...
In the year 1774 Blake obtained an apprenticeship with a famous engraver which throughout his life he engraved to make a living. ... The poem "The Lamb" tells us about Blake's religious convictions in the way that he believes God is the Lamb which symbolises innocence. ... The poem "The Lamb" is very much like a songlike tone and structure. ... This gives the poem a more innocent appeal to the reader, however, more in the first verse than in the second one. ... There are questions being asked in the poem which not only are asked to the reader and for them to think about but are also quest...
Langston Hughes a famous writer and poet, presented ideas in his works that helped to define his perception of the American dream. ... (The collected poems) His father was James Nathaniel Hughes, a man who studied law but was unable to take the examination for the bar because he was black. ... It was in Lincoln that Hughes wrote his first poem after being elected class poet by his fellow classmates. ... His first published poem was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". This was also one of his most famous poems. ...
This was when Strauss was drawn into the world of Syphonic Poems, or "Tone Poems", as he called them. A tone poem is a piece which is ment to portray a particular story, scene, or mood. Strauss became famous for Don Juan, a tone poem he composed in 1889. ... In addition to Don Juan, Strauss composed 9 more succesful tone poems throughout his life. After his huge success in the tone poem world, Strauss decided to test out the opera world, which ended up being another success for him. ...
