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Poetic forms have been used by Christians since the recorded history of the faith begins. The earliest Christian poetry, in fact, appears in the New Testament. Canticles such as the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, which appear in the Gospel of Luke, take the Biblical poetry of the psalms of the Hebrew Bible as their models. [1]
Because of the variety of performance modes, oríkì defies classification as music or poetry, and it has been studied from both perspectives. Historically, oríkì was delivered by a specialist in a particular vocal style. [4] For example, ìjálá is acoustically open and intense, while ewì is spoken in a high-falsetto, wailing voice quality.
In poetry, enjambment (/ ɛ n ˈ dʒ æ m b m ən t / or / ɪ n ˈ dʒ æ m m ən t /; from the French enjamber) [1] [2] [3] is incomplete syntax at the end of a line; [4] the meaning 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation. [5] Lines without enjambment are end-stopped. [6]
The Day the Crayons Came Home is a 2015 children's book written by Drew Daywalt and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers. The book is a sequel to The Day the Crayons Quit . [1] [2] The book is about crayons who are scattered around the world and in the house of a boy named Duncan, and how they communicate with him through postcards. [3]
The poem became popular, eventually becoming what one commentator called "[t]he most quoted poem in twentieth-century America, after 'The Night Before Christmas'". [5] In addition to being widely anthologized, [ 2 ] it was often transmitted orally without credit to Burgess. [ 3 ]
A mother reads to her children in a mid- to late 19th century lithograph by Jessie Willcox Smith. The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published.
The poets of the Song dynasty drew on a long tradition of poetry in China, particularly upon forms prevalent in the Tang dynasty, together with influences from Central Asia.The ci form is especially associated with the Sung dynasty period shows signs of development toward the end of the Tang dynasty and the period of disunity immediately before the Song dynasty, especially as exemplified in ...
The writings of Syrian poet and writer Francis Marrash (1836–73) featured the first examples of prose poetry in modern Arabic literature. [8] From the mid-20th century, the great Arab exponent of prose poetry was the Syrian poet Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber, born 1930), a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature .