Which 1853 narrative poem of Matthew Arnold set in the orient tells the story of two feuding warrior-generals who, unknown to both, happen to be father and son?
"his lectures ""On Translating Homer"" (1861). The poem consists of 892 lines of blank verse. Sohrab and Rustum Sohrab and Rustum: An Episode is a narrative poem with strong tragic themes first published in 1853 by Matthew Arnold. The poem retells a famous episode from Ferdowsi's Persian epic ""Shahnameh"" relating how the great warrior Rustum unknowingly slew his long-lost son Sohrab in single combat. Arnold, who was unable to read the original, relied on summaries of the story in John Malcolm's ""History of Persia"" and Sainte-Beuve's review of a French prose translation of Ferdowsi. In ""Sohrab and Rustum"", Arnold attempted"
"Tristram and Iseult 'Tristram and Iseult', published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold, is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes. This poem draws upon the Tristan and Iseult legends which were popular with contemporary readers. The poem opens with Tristram upon his deathbed. The monologue of the dying man is shot through by sharp pangs of regret: centering upon his induced passion for Iseult of Ireland - inflamed by his unwittingly imbibing an irresistible love-potion. Before his decease Iseult of Ireland arrives in time to share his deathbed. Iseult of Brittany, his lawful wife, graciously accedes to their"
"that he can call on a holy war against El Hassan. The novella's title refers to Rudyard Kipling’s poem on the convergence of two seemingly opposed cultural traditions, ""The Ballad of East and West."" In Kipling’s ballad, two warriors from conflicting civilizations come to value each other’s courage and so become blood brothers in spite of their disparate backgrounds. In ""Border, Breed nor Birth"", the introductory blurb (“Kipling said those things didn't count when two strong men stood face to face. But ... do they count when two strong ideologies stand face to face...?”) indicates that the culture clash is"
"Baldwin and Arnold of Beauvais Baldwin and Arnold (Ernoul) of Beauvais were brothers who participated in the First Crusade, although it is uncertain which army they were associated with. Their stories are recorded in the ""Chanson d'Antioche"". A fanciful tale of the brothers begins with Kerbogha (Carbaran), a Turkish general and Atabeg of Mosul, conceding defeat at the siege of Antioch and, along with a number of prisoners, returns the body of Brohadas, the son of the sultan of Persia, Rukn ad-Denya wa’d Din to Kermanshah. This story begines in the ""Chanson de Geste"", an early French epic poem: As"
"is the dialect, which shows a mixture of High and Low German spellings which cannot represent any actually spoken dialect. In spite of the many uncertainties over the text and continuing debate on the interpretation, the poem is widely regarded as the first masterpiece of German literature. The opening lines of the poem set the scene: two warriors meet on a battlefield, probably as the champions of their two armies. As the older man, Hildebrand opens by asking the identity and genealogy of his opponent. Hadubrand reveals that he did not know his father but the elders told him his"
"and Kamal's son swear blood brotherhood. The two young men ride back to the British fort, where Kamal's son is greeted with hostility by the guards. The Colonel's son admonishes them that his companion is now no longer a border thief, but a fellow soldier. Its first line is often quoted, sometimes to ascribe racism to Kipling, particularly in regard to the British Empire. Those who quote it thus often completely miss the third and fourth lines. The full refrain, with which the poem opens and closes, includes a contradiction of the opening line. <poem>""Oh, East is East, and West"
"The Ballad of East and West ""The Ballad of East and West"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Kamal, a tribal chieftain in the North-West Frontier (then on the boundary of the British Raj, nowadays in Pakistan), steals the British Colonel's prize mare. The Colonel's son, who commands a troop of the Guides, asks if any of his men know where Kamal might be. One does, and tells him, and warns him of the dangers of entering Kamal's territory guarded by tribesmen concealed among the rocks"
"Antarah ibn Shaddad Antarah ibn Shaddad (, ""ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād al-ʿAbsī""; 525–608), also known as ʿAntar, was a pre-Islamic Arab knight and poet, famous for both his poetry and his adventurous life. His chief poem forms part of the ""Mu'allaqāt"", the collection of seven ""hanging odes"" legendarily said to have been suspended in the Kaaba. The account of his life forms the basis of a long and extravagant romance. ʿAntarah was born in Najd in Arabia. His father was Shaddād al-ʿAbsī, a respected warrior of the Banu Abs under their chief Zuhayr. His mother was an Ethiopian woman named Zabūba."
"that Apostles must come from the towns. Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi (-615), or 'Antar al-Absi, was one of the seven great pre-Islamic Arab poets and the protagonist of the great story ""Antar and Abla"". Throughout this non-fiction story, he displayed chivalry, bravery, and eloquence in the Arabic language. This earned him the name among all of the Arabs of the Peninsula as the ""Complete Knight"". Furthermore, he was the author of the Divan and he was a Warrior. His father was a leader of the Banu ʿAbs tribe named Shaddad and his mother was Zabiba, an African Abyssinian princess-turned-slave who"
"broken faith"". Midway between these is one of Arnold's biographers, who describes being ""true / To one another"" as ""a precarious notion"" in a world that has become ""a maze of confusion"". The metaphor with which the poem ends is most likely an allusion to a passage in Thucydides's account of the Peloponnesian War (Book 7, 44). He describes an ancient battle that occurred on a similar beach during the Athenian invasion of Sicily. The battle took place at night; the attacking army became disoriented while fighting in the darkness and many of their soldiers inadvertently killed each other. This"
"a battle along the Malabar Coast. The battle was followed by skirmishes along the trading routes between Egypt and India. The fleet eventually returned to Goa by November 1554. During his time ashore, he continued his writing publicly, as well as writing correspondence for the uneducated men of the fleet. At the end of his obligatory service, he was given the position of chief warrant officer in Macau. He was charged with managing the properties of missing and deceased soldiers in the Orient. During this time he worked on his epic poem ""Os Lusíadas"" (""The Lusiads"") in a grotto. He"
"a traditional driving rhythm. Such echoes are to be heard throughout the poem: there is a couplet that is repeated with slight variations several times: T. S. Eliot included the poem in his 1941 collection ""A Choice of Kipling's Verse"". The Ballad of East and West ""The Ballad of East and West"" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in 1889, and has been much collected and anthologised since. Kamal, a tribal chieftain in the North-West Frontier (then on the boundary of the British Raj, nowadays in Pakistan), steals the British Colonel's prize mare. The Colonel's son,"
"Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. The Reverend John Keble, who would become one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, stood as godfather to Matthew. ""Thomas Arnold admired"
"was originally captured during a battle between the invading Banu Abs tribe and the ancient Abyssinian army (specifically the Kingdom of Aksum). This most famous member of the Banu Abs tribe has had a cultural impact beyond Arabia and even into the modern era. A number of modern cultural artistic works are inspired by the Warrior-Poet 'Antar. These include Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphony No. 2 which is based on the legend of ʿAntar, as well as the first Palestinian opera composed in 1988 by Mustapha al-Kurd, of which Antarah ibn Shaddad was the primary subject. The modern Banu Abs tribe is"
"century. Narrative formulae such as the settlement of battle by single combat between champions has been thought characteristic of the Homeric epics (the ""Iliad""), rather than of the ancient Near East. The designation of Goliath as a , ""man of the in-between"" (a longstanding difficulty in translating 1 Samuel 17) appears to be a borrowing from Greek ""man of the """" ()"", i.e. the space between two opposite army camps where champion combat would take place. A story very similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, written circa 760–710 BCE, where the young Nestor fights and"
"Hildebrand returns and encounters his son Hadubrand, who is leading his army against Hildebrand. The two leaders meet between the armies. They converse before fighting, and Hadubrand says that he is ""Hadubrand Hildebrand's son"", but he was told that Hildebrand died, and he accuses Hildebrand of being an old Hun and refuses to believe that he is his father. The poem ends before a conclusion is reached, but in ""Hildebrand's Death"" it is related that he killed his son. The Old Norse ""Thidrekssaga"" and the ""Jüngeres Hildebrandslied"" both contain versions in which Hilderband defeats his son (here named Alebrand) but"
"Stanzaic Morte Arthur The Stanzaic Morte Arthur is an anonymous 14th-century Middle English poem in 3,969 lines, about the adulterous affair between Lancelot and Guinevere, and Lancelot's tragic dissension with King Arthur. The poem is usually called the Stanzaic ""Morte Arthur"" or Stanzaic ""Morte"" (formerly also the Harleian ""Morte Arthur"") to distinguish it from another Middle English poem, the Alliterative ""Morte Arthure"". It exercised enough influence on Thomas Malory's ""Le Morte d'Arthur"" to have, in the words of one recent scholar, ""played a decisive though largely unacknowledged role in the way succeeding generations have read the Arthurian legend"". King Arthur"
"Iliad The Iliad (; """", in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the ""Iliad"" mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about"
"the second that it was written by two poets—the first a very capable writer with a fine sense of humor, the second a much less original one. According to Claassens, the plot ""is impossible to summarize ... briefly"". The main character's father, King Ernoul of Nijmegen, travels to the Orient to deliver his brother from Saracen captivity. In the meantime his seneschal, Gaufroi of Friesland, takes Ernoul's place in his bed and on his throne, having betrayed his king to Sultan Rouge-Lion. Ernoul has four sons, all of whom go their various ways to escape the threat of death at"
"suitor for a daughter born of his second marriage, the duke declares war against Flóres. In his army are the sons of King Flóres. They are captured by their father and during the night before their planned execution they tell each other their life stories. The king overhears them, and realises they are his sons. A reconciliation ensues. Kalinke and Mitchell identified the following manuscripts: Flóres saga konungs (svarta) ok sona hans Flóres saga konungs (svarta) ok sona hans is a medieval Icelandic romance saga. It was composed in Iceland, probably composed during the late fourteenth century. Marianne E. Kalinke"
"that his brother was seized by the lioness and then the griffin, journeys to a new life as Florent, the son of a Paris merchant. As in the tale ""Sir Eglamour of Artois"", mother and son in ""Octavian"" are finally reunited after many years apart, and a giant is defeated during the unfolding of the tale. When the Scandinavian hero Arrow-Odd, in a 13th-century Icelandic tale, finds his path blocked by a deep gorge, he is lifted into the air by an eagle and carried to the eagle's nest high up on a sea cliff. Soon, a giant appears in"
"movie ""Grendel Grendel Grendel"". The basic plot derives from ""Beowulf"", a heroic poem of unknown authorship written in Old English and preserved in a manuscript dating from around AD 1000. The poem deals with the heroic exploits of the Geat warrior Beowulf, who battles three antagonists: Grendel, Grendel's mother, and, later in life, an unnamed dragon. Gardner's retelling, however, presents the story from the existentialist view of Grendel, exploring the history of the characters before Beowulf arrives. Beowulf himself plays a relatively small role in the novel, but he is still the only human hero that can match and kill"
"Thyrsis (poem) ""Thyrsis"" (from the title of Theocritus's poem ""Θύρσις"") is a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in November 1861 aged only 42. The character, Thyrsis, was a shepherd in Virgil's Seventh Eclogue, who lost a singing match against Corydon. The implication that Clough was a loser is hardly fair, given that he is thought by many to have been one of the greatest Nineteenth Century poets (but see line 80: ""For Time, not Corydon, hath conquer’d thee""). Arnold's decision to imitate a Latin pastoral"
"is perhaps Arnold's most purely poetical poem, ""The Forsaken Merman."" ""Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems"" (among them ""Tristram and Iseult""), published in 1852, had a similar fate. In 1858 he published his tragedy of ""Merope,"" calculated, he wrote to a friend, ""rather to inaugurate my Professorship with dignity than to move deeply the present race of humans,"" and chiefly remarkable for some experiments in unusual – and unsuccessful – metres. His 1867 poem, ""Dover Beach,"" depicted a nightmarish world from which the old religious verities have receded. It is sometimes held up as an early, if not the first,"
"chapatis shortly before the outbreak of the rebellion. This mysterious historic incident remains unexplained. ""Coromandel!"" (1955) Takes place in the 17th-century, when an English lad named Savage runs away to sea and ends up in India - starting the family's centuries-long involvement there. ""The Deceivers"" is about Rodney's father, William, who suppresses the Thugee. William's butler, Sher Dil, also appears in ""Nightrunners of Bengal"", now an old man, and working for Rodney. Piroo, an ex-Thug who was one of William's band in ""The Deceivers"" also appears in this book. He guides the English survivors to safety, amused at the irony"
"husband and her father and seeks in vain to delay the war. Uthal is beaten in battle and sentenced to banishment. When Malvina offers to follow him into exile, Uthal confesses that he has been wrong and he and Larmor are reconciled. ""Uthal"" was part of the European vogue for the Ossianic poems of Macpherson. Another notable example from the time is the opera ""Ossian, ou Les bardes"" (1804) by Méhul's rival Jean-François Le Sueur. In fact, critics accused Méhul's librettist Saint-Victor of copying ""Les bardes"", an allegation Saint-Victor rejected, claiming his work would have been ready in 1804 had"
"developed a close friendship. But the bonds of friendship uniting the trio explode after Will succeeds in wooing the Indian girl who had stolen Mike's heart. Mike's jealously leads to murder: the remaining cantos complete the narrative, in which only one of the original three will survive to tell the tale. This poem comprises five cantos. The story begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the Trans-Missouri region. The poem describes the friendship that springs up between two"
"to become the reluctant wife of the Sultan. The catalyst for victory is the good magician, Urlubulu, who lives in a lake, and flies through the air on the back of his magic blue bird. The English translators, using the original illustrations, and the basic rhyme patterns, slightly simplify the plot, changing the Christians-versus-Muslim-Moors conflict into a battle between good and bad magicians and between golden knights and green knights. The French traitor in ""The Song of Roland"", who is actually Roland's cowardly step-father, is Ganelon – very likely the inspiration for Luzzati's traitor and wicked magician, Gano. Orlando Furioso"
"episodes are seen to be linked, first, with the quest of beautiful Angelica by love-smitten Orlando and the other enamored knights, then with the defense of Albracca by Angelica's father, the King of Cathay, against the beleaguering Tartars, and, finally, with the Moors' siege of Paris and their struggle with Charlemagne's army. The poem, written in the ""ottava rima"" stanza rhythm, consists of 68 cantos and a half. Boiardo began the poem when he was about 38 years old, but interrupted it for a time because of the Ottoman–Venetian War (1463–1479). He is believed to have continued till 1486, but"
"New York""), in ""A Time Between Ashes and Roses"" collection of poems. In the poem, Adonis, spurred by the Arabs' shock and bewilderment after the Six-Day War, renders a claustrophobic yet seemingly infinite apocalypse. Adonis is hard at work undermining the social discourse that has turned catastrophe into a firmer bond with dogma and cynical defeatism throughout the Arab world. To mark this ubiquitous malaise, the poet attempts to find a language that matches it, and he fashions a vocal arrangement that swerves and beguiles. The poem was the subject of wide study in the Arab literary community due to"
"The title alludes to the opening words of Virgil's Latin epic poem the ""Aeneid"": ""Arma virumque cano"" (""Of arms and the man I sing""). The poem is written in heroic couplets, in which successive pairs of lines have related ending sounds. In this instance, the final words do not rhyme; for example, ""blade"" and ""blood"" in the quotation. This is a scheme called half rhyme. Text of the Poem at Poetry Foundation Arms and the Boy ""Arms and the Boy"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I;"
"among his three sons, he gives the Semitic lands in the west to the eldest, the lands of the north to his middle son Tur (Avestan ""Turya"", hence the name ""Turanian""), and ""Ērān"" to his youngest (""Shahnameh"" 1.189). In the story, this partition leads to a family feud in which an alliance of the two elder sons (who rule over the Anērānian lands) battle the forces of the youngest (the Iranians). The Iranians win. For Ferdowsi, the Turanians/Anērānians (often used interchangeably) are unquestionably the villains of peace. Their conflict with Iranians is the main theme of the ""Shahnameh"" and accounts"
"subject-matter was based only on information from later sources, chiefly Virgil's ""Aeneid"" but also Ovid; hence the discrepancy between Dante and Homer. He appears in Shakespeare's ""Troilus and Cressida"" (1602), set during the Trojan War. Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem ""Ulysses"" (published in 1842) presents an aging king who has seen too much of the world to be happy sitting on a throne idling his days away. Leaving the task of civilizing his people to his son, he gathers together a band of old comrades ""to sail beyond the sunset"". Frederick Rolfe's ""The Weird of the Wanderer"" (1912) has the hero"