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The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a diminutive existence that was socially accepted at the time.
Title page of the first quarto (1593). Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting.
The poems it generated have been seen as the first work of electronic literature and a queer critique of heteronormative expressions of love. [2] [3] [4] History
"Tamerlane" is the Latinized name of a 14th-century historical figure.. The main themes of "Tamerlane" are independence and pride [3] as well as loss and exile. [4] Poe may have written the poem based on his own loss of his early love, Sarah Elmira Royster, [5] his birth mother Eliza Poe, or his foster-mother Frances Allan. [4]
"Constantinople", a 'ferro-concrete poem' from Tango with Cows by the Russian Futurist Vasily Kamensky, 1914. Concrete poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. [1]
The File of Young Kindaichi (金田一少年の事件簿, Kindaichi Shōnen no Jikenbo) is a Japanese mystery anime series adapted from the manga of the same name, also known as The Kindaichi Case Files.
Gérard Pape – Tantric Transformations, eight-channel electronic music and digital video; Henri Pousseur. Anneaux du soleil, for piano; Navigations, for harp; Seize Paysages planétaires, ethno-electroacoustical music; Wolfgang Rihm. Auf einem anderen Blatt, for piano; Concerto (Dithyrambe), for string quartet and orchestra
Folio 129r of the early eleventh-century Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 43, showing a page of Bede's Latin text, with Cædmon's Hymn added in the lower margin. Cædmon's Hymn is a short Old English poem attributed to Cædmon, a supposedly illiterate and unmusical cow-herder who was, according to the Northumbrian monk Bede (d. 735), miraculously empowered to sing in honour of God the Creator.