"murderer."" Another said this was ""One of the few times Christie gives short measure, and none the worse for that."" The male narrator was both praised and panned. The book takes its name from verse 51 of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the ""Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám"": The poem, in turn, refers to Belshazzar's feast as related in the Book of Daniel, where the expression ""the writing on the wall"" originated. The title shows in the story figuratively and literally. The anonymous letters point blame from one town resident to another. The Scotland Yard agent determines the envelopes were all ""typed"
"into the story quickly, begins without the leisurely introduction to the narrator's back-story that is present in the British edition, and lacks much of the characterisation throughout. Christie admitted that this book was one of her favourites, stating, ""I find that another [book] I am really pleased with is ""The Moving Finger"". It is a great test to re-read what one has written some seventeen or eighteen years before. One's view changes. Some do not stand the test of time, others do."" The Moving Finger The Moving Finger is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published"
"The Moving Finger The Moving Finger is a detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in July 1942 and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1943 The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The Burtons, brother and sister, arrive in a small village, soon receiving an anonymous letter accusing them of being lovers, not siblings. They are not the only ones in the village to receive such vile letters. A prominent resident is found dead with one"
"a favourite poem of Agatha Christie, who quotes it in two of her novels, ""The Moving Finger"" and ""Ordeal by Innocence"". Still, the larger literary world largely dismissed her work. ""The Cambridge History of English and American Literature"", for example, wrote: ""If we had nothing of Jean Ingelow’s but the most remarkable poem entitled Divided, it would be permissible to suppose the loss [of her], in fact or in might-have-been, of a poetess of almost the highest rank... Jean Ingelow wrote some other good things, but nothing at all equalling this; while she also wrote too much and too long."""
"narrative is moving into a significant moment in the past. The use of these italics can be confusing, however, as time shifts are not always marked by the use of italics, and periods of different time in each section do not necessarily stay in italics for the duration of the flashback. Thus, these time shifts can often be jarring and confusing, and require particularly close reading. The title of the novel is taken from Macbeth's famous soliloquy of act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"": <poem style=""font-style:italic;""> Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day"
"less than 43 entire stanzas in full, in addition to many individual lines and couplets. Stanza LI, also well-known, runs: Lines and phrases from the poem have been used as the titles of many literary works, amongst them Nevil Shute's ""The Chequer Board"", James Michener's ""The Fires of Spring"" and Agatha Christie's ""The Moving Finger""; Eugene O'Neill's ""Ah, Wilderness"" alludes to the Rubáiyát without being a direct quotation. Allusions to it are frequent in the short stories of O. Henry; Saki's nom-de-plume makes reference to it. The popular 1925 song ""A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich, and You"", by Billy"
"The Moving Toyshop The Moving Toyshop (1946) is a work of detective fiction by Edmund Crispin, featuring his recurrent sleuth, Gervase Fen, an Oxford professor of English Language and Literature. The title comes from Pope's ""The Rape of the Lock"":With varying vanities, from every part,<br> They shift the moving toyshop of their heart The novel is dedicated to the poet Philip Larkin, Crispin's contemporary at St John's College, Oxford. In chapter 10, tongue-in-cheek reference is made to Larkin, with the mention of an undergraduate essay called ""The Influence of ""Sir Gawain"" on Arnold's ""Empedocles on Etna"""", about which Fen comments:"
"and weaving the scarlet warp all over the pastel pouffe."" And he concluded, ""Probably you will call Mrs Christie's double bluff, but this will only increase your pleasure."" An unnamed reviewer in the ""Toronto Daily Star"" of 7 November 1942 said, """"The Moving Finger"" has for a jacket design a picture of a finger pointing out one suspect after another and that's the way it is with the reader as chapter after chapter of the mystery story unfolds. It is not one of [Christie's] stories about her famous French detective, Hercule Poirot, having instead Miss Marple, a little old lady"
"puts out on the tide. The novel's epigraph, ""che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue"" (""whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues"") comes from Canto XI of Dante's ""Inferno"". The book was inspired by the most difficult years of Fitzgerald's own life, years that that she had spent living on an old Thames sailing barge named ""Grace"" on Battersea Reach. She later regretted that some translations of the novel's title suggested ""far from the shore"" when she was in fact writing"
"in English poetic history as baffling as Keats's repetition of the word 'forlorn'"". When referring to the reliance of the ideas of John Dryden and William Hazlitt within the poem, Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, in 1999, argued ""whose notion of poetry as a 'movement' from personal consciousness to an awareness of suffering humanity it perfectly illustrates."" F. Scott Fitzgerald took the title of his novel ""Tender is the Night"" from the 35th line of the ode. According to Ildikó de Papp Carrington, Keats' wording, ""when, sick for home, / She stood in tears amid the alien corn"", seems to be"
"potentially in line 9. Line 13 exhibits a rightward movement of the fourth ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, codice_1, sometimes referred to as a ""minor ionic""): The meter demands both occurrences of ""power"" in line 4 function as single syllables. The words ""elsewhere"" (lines 5 and 12) and ""outright"" (line 14) are double-stressed, and in this context move their stresses to the second syllable. Sonnet 139 Sonnet 139 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Sonnet 139 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a"
"the lines <poem> Com, and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastick toe. </poem> The imagery of tripping on toes also appears in Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"": ""Before you can say come, and goe, / And breathe twice; and cry, so, so: / Each one tripping on his Toe, / Will be here with mop, and mowe."" This expression was popularized in the American song ""Sidewalks of New York"" (melody and text by Charles B. Lawlor and James W. Blake) in 1894. Part of the chorus: ""Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke / Tripped the light fantastic"
"in Anglo-Saxon literature is matched in many post-Conquest texts where journeying is central to the text. A necessarily brief survey of the corpus might include ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", John Bunyan's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"", Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"", Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and William Golding's ""Rites of Passage"". Not only do we find physical journeying within ""The Wanderer"" and those later texts, but a sense in which the journey is responsible for a visible transformation in the mind of the character making the journey. A plurality of scholarly opinion holds that the main"
"The Rose and the Yew Tree The Rose and the Yew Tree is a tragedy novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Heinemann Ltd in November 1948 and in the US by Farrar & Rinehart later in the same year. It is the fourth of six novels Christie published under the nom-de-plume Mary Westmacott. The title of the novel is taken from Section V of ""Little Gidding"" from T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"". The full line, as quoted in the epigraph to the novel, is: Hugh Norreys, crippled in a road accident, watches from"
"A Walking Song ""A Walking Song"" is a poem in the form of a song from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel ""The Lord of the Rings"", originally published in three volumes. It appears in the third chapter of the novel, entitled ""Three is Company""; usually as part of the first volume, ""The Fellowship of the Ring"". It is given its title in an index to songs and poems usually published in the third volume, ""The Return of the King"". The poem has been adapted in both film and music. Most notably, while the poem itself does not appear in"
"by stating that in poems such as ""Beatrice Passes"" (from ""Dreams and Fantasies"") her ""real poetic gift is best displayed"". ""The Scotsman"" of 23 March 1925 said, ""Miss Agatha Christie, in her book of poems, ""The Road of Dreams"", reveals a pleasing lyrical sense. The movement of her verse is light and graceful, and its substance, though not of the 'thought compact,' is not empty. Such lines, however – and there are a few – as:– are banal. Flow in verse is not everything. A stronger note is struck in some of the ballads, for instance, ""The Ballad of the"
"a poem by Christina Rossetti, ""Golden-winged, silver-winged"". Movement 9 sets verses from Psalm 91 ( for a cappella choir with the densest vocal texture, SSAATTBB. A spoken poem follows, ""Farewell, green field"" by William Blake. Movement 10 is a melodrama for speaker and orchestra on a passage from the novel ""The Pilgrims Progress"" by John Bunyan, ""There came out also at this time to meet him"", describing the reception of two pilgrims in Heaven. Verses from the Gospel of Luke ( reflect the resurrection. The last spoken text is by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ""I think they laugh in heaven"". The"
"of Charles Dickens, contributed to the general awareness of the condition of the working class which fed the popularity of trade unionism and the push for stricter labour laws. Following is the first stanza of the poem; for the complete text, see the Wikisource link below. With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread – Stitch! Stitch! Stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch She sang ‘The Song of the Shirt!’ The Song of the Shirt ""The Song of the"
"initial reversal, which can also be found in line 13 (and potentially in lines 6, 7, and 10): Finally, the 9th line exhibits the rightward movement of the third ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, codice_1, sometimes referred to as a ""minor ionic""): The meter demands a few variant pronunciations: line 2's ""even"" functions as one syllable, line 5's ""reckoning"" and line 8's ""altering"" as two, and line 8's ""to the"" is contracted to ""to th'"". Sonnet 115 Sonnet 115 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the"
"scenes from Brookline, Massachusetts (where Walcott was living and teaching at the time of the poem's composition), and the character Achille imagines a voyage from Africa onto a slave ship that is headed for the Americas; also, in Book Five of the poem, Walcott narrates some of his travel experiences in a variety of cities around the world, including Lisbon, London, Dublin, Rome, and Toronto. Composed in a variation on ""terza rima"", the work explores the themes that run throughout Walcott's oeuvre: the beauty of the islands, the colonial burden, the fragmentation of Caribbean identity, and the role of the"
"in it, chronologically, to be written was ""Going,"" of February 1946. It is about death, and , according to Andrew Motion, is the kind of poem for which Larkin ""is so often regarded as an unrelievedly pessimistic poet"" Its concluding lines, ""What is under my hands, / That I cannot feel? / What loads my hands down?"", presage the helplessness, the dread of the atrophying of emotion, the despair, and the magnetic terror of death in the poems that follow. These are Larkin's most persistent themes. Throughout the collection, the feeling of diminishment and loss is pervasive, whether in the"
"the novel, Hugh is on his way to India for a holiday, accompanying Felix and Felix's older sister Mildred, who is in love with Hugh. The novel's title and epigraph are taken from Rupert Brooke's poem ""The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"". In the poem, which was written in Berlin in 1912, Brooke contrasts his beloved English countryside with the German city around him. The disciplined German tulips, he says, ""bloom in rows"", unlike the ""unkempt"" wild roses in England. Along with its obvious relevance to the rose nursery setting of the book, the title refers to the formlessness of Ann Peronett's"
"to how unpredictable and fragile life is. This poem uses some figurative language including onomatopoeia, alliteration, imagery, and many others. Harold Bloom said it is ""one of Frost's most respected poems, but it has not received the same depth of critical attention and explication as poems such as ""The Road Not Taken"" and ""Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"". Out, Out— ""Out, Out"" is a poem by American poet Robert Frost, published in 1916. ""Out Out"" tells the story of a young boy who dies after his hand is severed by a ""buzz-saw"". The poem focuses on people's reactions"
"""The Moving Finger"" was first adapted for television by the BBC with Joan Hickson in the series ""Miss Marple"". It first aired on 21–22 February 1985. A second television adaptation was made with Geraldine McEwan as Marple in the TV series, ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" and was filmed in Chilham, Kent. It first aired on 12 February 2006. This adaptation changes the personality of Jerry a bit from the novel and sets the story a little later than the novel is set, per a review of the episode: ""Miss Marple, observing the tragic effects of these missives on relationships and reputations,"
"is to be sought in learned journals, and Agatha Christie's part therein is no small one. We wonder how many of the people who enjoy her books think of their being written, as often as not, in the desert amid mounds of forgotten cities in a region that was once full of life."" As well as a foreword and a short epilogue (dated spring 1944), Christie provides a poem ""A-sitting on a Tell"" which mimics the White Knight's poem, ""Haddocks' Eyes"" (See ""Explanation of the book's title"" above). Christie references this allusion by way of a printed apology to Carroll."
"than seeing the event take place, which in turns adds to his trauma and his inability to gain closure. Similarly, Ben has only heard stories but never had first hand experience. Michaels uses this to convey a paradox between what we hear, the language, and then the silence that follows due to the suffering and trauma of others. The title of the novel is taken from ""Fugitive Pieces"", Lord Byron's first volume of verse, privately printed in the autumn of 1806. Along with winning many awards, Michaels has received praise from multiple media outlets and academics such as University College"
"Absent in the Spring Absent in the Spring is a novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins in August 1944 and in the US by Farrar & Rinehart later in the same year. It was the third of six novels Christie wrote under the nom-de-plume Mary Westmacott. The title is a quotation from William Shakespeare's sonnet 98: ""From you have I been absent in the spring..."" Stranded between trains, Joan Scudamore finds herself reflecting upon her life, her family, and finally coming to grips with the uncomfortable truths about her life. ""The Times Literary"
"The protagonist doesn't unequivocally undergo a dramatic transformation, for instance, but rather the question of ""transformation"" is left open, and people seem to have strong and distinct senses about whether the narrator has grown or remained the same, whether this is a sort of coming of age story or whether it charts a year in the life of a sociopath. The title of the novel is taken from a John Ashbery poem of the same name published in ""The Tennis Court Oath"". During his time in Spain, Gordon often carries Ashbery's ""Selected Poems"". At one point in the novel, Gordon"
"lines 7, 8, and 11. The 3rd line features one (potentially two; the second can be otherwise scanned) rightward movements of an ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, codice_1, sometimes referred to as a ""minor ionic""): A similar minor ionic is potentially present in line 12's ""By their rank thoughts"", though not if ""their"" receives contrastive accent. The meter demands that line 13's ""general"" function as two syllables. Sonnet 121 Sonnet 121 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses"
"the look for scenes in ITV's 2006 adaptation of Agatha Christie's ""The Moving Finger"", set in 1951. Others favoured the lower-cut, tighter styles of continental stars such as Bardot or Gina Lollobrigida. Valerie Hobson was among those whose wardrobe drew on Italian ""couture""; in addition to a large collection of stiletto heeled shoes, she possessed a skirt made from python skin. More generally, European tastes – including the Lambretta motor scooter and Italian and French cuisine, which the widely travelled cookery writer Elizabeth David, herself a bit of a Bohemian, did much to promote – not only began to pervade"
"was also the subject of the 1820 poem ""The Cloud"" published as part of the ""Prometheus Unbound"" collection. An 1824 poem by Shelley is also sometimes published under the title ""Mutability"". It is also published with its first line as title. The flower that smiles today All that we wish to stay, What is this world's delight? Lightning that mocks the night, Virtue, how frail it is! Love, how it sells poor bliss But we, though soon they fall, Survive their joy and all Whilst skies are blue and bright, Whilst eyes that change ere night Whilst yet the calm"
"Hood,” “Flame Flower,” “Jump Up and Kiss Me,” “Flower of Jove,” and “Pink of my John.” In ""Hamlet"", Ophelia distributes flowers with the remark, ""There's pansies, that's for thoughts"" (IV.5). Other poets referencing the pansy include Ben Jonson, Bernard Barton, Michael Drayton, Edmund Spenser, William Wakefield, and William Wordsworth. Nathaniel Hawthorne published his last literary effort, an unfinished piece, entitled ""Pansie, a Fragment"", sometimes called ""Little Pansie, a fragment"" in 1864. D. H. Lawrence's ""Pansies: Poems by D. H. Lawrence"" was published in 1929, and Margaret Mitchell originally chose Pansy as the name of her ""Gone with the Wind"" heroine,"
"in ""The Waves"". Ernest Hemingway used this poem in his novel, “A Farewell To Arms” (1929). It is also used repeatedly in Marta Randall's book ""Dangerous Games"" (1980). It is mournfully recited by Erika Anderson's cuckold husband Thierry [Judge Reinhold] in the 1991 thriller ""Zandalee"" Thomas Pynchon's first published story, ""The Small Rain"" (1959), takes its title from the poem's second line. The story is reprinted in his collection ""Slow Learner"" (1984). Ernest Hemingway used the poem in ""A Farewell to Arms"" Westron Wynde Westron Wynde is an early 16th-century song whose tune was used as the basis (cantus firmus)"