"Who wrote the poem that begins ""April is the cruellest month""?"
"The Waste Land The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's ""The Criterion"" and in the United States in the November issue of ""The Dial"". It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"", and the mantra in the"
"satire and prophecy; its abrupt changes of speaker, location, and time. This structural complexity is one of the reasons why the poem has become a touchstone of modern literature, a poetic counterpart to a novel published in the same year, James Joyce's ""Ulysses"". Among its best-known phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"" and """"Shantih shantih shantih"""". The Sanskrit ""mantra"" ends the poem. ""The Hollow Men"" appeared in 1925. For the critic Edmund Wilson, it marked ""The nadir of the phase of despair and desolation given such effective expression in"
"and annotated by Valerie Eliot. The full poem prior to the Pound editorial changes is contained in the facsimile. The drafts of the poem reveal that it originally contained almost twice as much material as the final published version. The significant cuts are in part due to Ezra Pound's suggested changes, although Eliot himself also removed large sections. The now famous opening lines of the poem—""April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land""—did not originally appear until the top of the second page of the typescript. The first page of the typescript contained 54 lines"
"and her husband moved to St. Louis, Missouri, his home town. There Jay and his brother Fred Landesman started the Crystal Palace nightclub. This was a successful venture, attracting big-name acts and producing avant-garde theatre. After sitting in the bar of the Crystal Palace, listening to musicians and audiences, Fran Landesman was inspired to write song lyrics beginning in 1952. One of her best-known is ""Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most"", her exploration of T. S. Eliot's ""April is the cruelest month..."" The Palace's pianist Tommy Wolf set her lyrics to music, and the song became a hit,"
"full-length play depicts life and conflicted love in a small Mississippi Delta town during the Great Depression. The Performing Arts Association of Notre Dame Australia (PAANDA) presented ""Spring Storm"" in 2018. The play was directed by Courtney McManus and Stage managed by Carmel Mohen. The play's original title was ""April is the Cruelest Month,"" which was also the opening line from T. S. Eliot's poem ""The Waste Land."" When Williams presented ""Spring Storm"" to his playwriting class in April 1938, he wrote in his diary that the class, ""Read the final version of my second act and it was finally,"
"of the last stanza of ""To Althea, From Prison"": and the end of ""To Lucasta. Going to the Warres"": Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace (pronounced , homophone of ""loveless"") (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are ""To Althea, from Prison"", and ""To Lucasta, Going to the Warres"". Richard Lovelace was born on 9 December 1617. His exact birthplace is unknown, and may have been Woolwich, Kent, or Holland. He was the oldest son of"
"Spring Offensive (poem) ""Spring Offensive"" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I, and was written after a battle charge in April 1917. <poem> Halted against the shade of a last hill, They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease And, finding comfortable chests and knees Carelessly slept. To face the stark, blank sky beyond the ridge, Knowing their feet had come to the end of the world. Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled By the May breeze, murmurous with wasp and midge, For though the summer oozed into their"
"quoted verbatim at the funeral of a soldier killed in battle (at 1:09:30). The Soldier (poem) ""The Soldier"" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth of a series of poems entitled ""1914"". It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem ""Dulce et Decorum est"". The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge. This poem was written at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, as part of a series of sonnets written by Rupert Brooke. Brooke himself, predominantly a prewar poet, died the year after ""The Soldier"" was published. ""The Soldier"","
"A Death-Bed ""A Death-Bed"" is a poem by English poet and writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). It was first published in April 1919, in the collection ""The Years Between"". Later publications identified the year of writing as 1918. Kipling's only son, John, had been reported missing in action in 1915, during the Battle of Loos. Kipling was grief-stricken. ""A Death-Bed"" has been described as ""the most savage poem Kipling ever wrote"", and as ""overtly distasteful"". ""A Death-Bed"" consists of 10 ABAB quatrains, with four stresses per line. It interweaves three voices: The monarch vehemently asserts his absolute power, while blaming others"
"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"
"in the habit of stipulating in any preface to his collections: ""None of the work in this book is to be used in connection with any examination whatsoever."" His best-known poem, ""To Whom It May Concern"", was his bitterly sarcastic reaction to the televised horrors of the Vietnam War. The poem begins: He first read it to thousands of nuclear disarmament protesters who, having marched through central London on CND's first new format one-day Easter March, finally crammed into Trafalgar Square on the afternoon of Easter Day 1964. As Mitchell delivered his lines from the pavement in front of the"
"Richard Lovelace Richard Lovelace (pronounced , homophone of ""loveless"") (9 December 1617 – 1657) was an English poet in the seventeenth century. He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil War. His best known works are ""To Althea, from Prison"", and ""To Lucasta, Going to the Warres"". Richard Lovelace was born on 9 December 1617. His exact birthplace is unknown, and may have been Woolwich, Kent, or Holland. He was the oldest son of Sir William Lovelace and Anne Barne Lovelace. He had four brothers and three sisters. His father was from a"
"Spring (poem) Spring is a lyric poem written and illustrated by William Blake. It was first published in ""Songs of Innocence"" (1789) and later in ""Songs of Innocence and Experience"" (1794). William Blake's ""Songs of Innocence"" (1789) is a lyric anthology that consists of nineteen illuminated poems. Each poem is accompanied with an illustration by Blake. ""Songs of Innocence"" was later combined with Blake's ""Songs of Experience"" in 1794 to make ""Songs of Innocence and Experience"", and were printed combined as well as separately. Sound the flute! Now it’s mute. Birds delight Day and night; Nightingale In the dale, Lark"
"of those at the hydro suffered, Rivers' mystical reputation, and the often mixed feelings of soldiers on leaving the place"". The most famous anti-war poem, ""Dulce et decorum est"" was written at the hospital in 1917 by a renowned poet and war neurosis sufferer, Wilfed Owen. A Canadian-born medic, Yealland was the most exterminate supporter of disciplinary treatment for war neurosis. He worked in Queen's Square during the war and to has been established that he and other medics tortured patients into recovery. He was among the first British physicians to use electric shock treatment and has been criticized heavily"
"The Soldier (poem) ""The Soldier"" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke. The poem is the fifth of a series of poems entitled ""1914"". It is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem ""Dulce et Decorum est"". The manuscript is located at King's College, Cambridge. This poem was written at the beginning of the First World War in 1914, as part of a series of sonnets written by Rupert Brooke. Brooke himself, predominantly a prewar poet, died the year after ""The Soldier"" was published. ""The Soldier"", being the conclusion and the finale to Brooke’s ""1914"" war sonnet series, deals"
"importance of his poetic memorial of these revolutionary figures. The date of the Easter Rising can be seen in the structure of the poem also: there are 16 lines (for 1916) in the first and third stanzas, 24 lines (for April 24, the date the Rising began) in the second and fourth stanzas, and four stanzas in total (which refers to April, the fourth month of the year). Easter, 1916 Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday,"
"Futility (poem) ""Futility"" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen, one of the most renowned poets of World War I. The poem was written in May 1918 and published as no. 153 in ""The Complete Poems and Fragments"". The poem is well known for its departure from Owen's famous style of including disturbing and graphic images in his work; the poem instead having a more soothing, somewhat light-hearted feel to it in comparison. A previous secretary of the Wilfred Owen Association argues that the bitterness in Owen's other poems ""gives place to the pity that characterises his finest work"". Futility"
"the earth. To the Fourth of July To the Fourth of July is an English poem written by Indian monk and social reformer Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda wrote the poem on 4 July 1898 on the anniversary of the United States' independence. In this poem Vivekananda praised and glorified liberty and the poem is described as a passionate utterance of his powerful longing for freedom. Coincidentally Vivekananda himself died on 4 July 1902. In 1893 Vivekananda went to the United States to represent India and Hinduism in the Parliament of the World's Religions. After getting overwhelming success in the Parliament, from"
"To the Fourth of July To the Fourth of July is an English poem written by Indian monk and social reformer Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda wrote the poem on 4 July 1898 on the anniversary of the United States' independence. In this poem Vivekananda praised and glorified liberty and the poem is described as a passionate utterance of his powerful longing for freedom. Coincidentally Vivekananda himself died on 4 July 1902. In 1893 Vivekananda went to the United States to represent India and Hinduism in the Parliament of the World's Religions. After getting overwhelming success in the Parliament, from 1893 to"
"The Railway (poem) The Railway () is a poem by Nikolai Nekrasov written in early 1864. Banned by censors in May and first published on November 24, 1865, in the October issue of ""Sovremennik"", it is regarded as one of the most powerful anti-capitalist statements of 19th-century Russian literature. The poem is based upon the real history of the construction of the Nikolayevskaya (now Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway) between 1843 and 1851. The builders, most of whom were peasant serfs, were paid the average 3 rubles per month, cheated even out of this by their supervisors and punished by lashes for"
"Dulce et Decorum est ""Dulce et Decorum est"" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. The Latin title is taken from Ode 3.2 (""Valor"") of the Roman poet Horace and means ""it is sweet and fitting ..."". It is followed there by ""pro patria mori"", which means ""to die for one's country"". One of Owen's most renowned works, the poem is known for its horrific imagery and condemnation of war. It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at Scarborough but possibly Ripon,"
"army and on 24 April, at 4 a.m., the signal was given for a general massacre so brutal, that it aroused indignation throughout Europe. Oliver Cromwell began petitioning on behalf of the Vaudois, and John Milton wrote his famous poem about this, ""On the Late Massacre in Piedmont."" Just as Milton did, Van der Vinne expressed his own disgust and horror in a long poem, and the next month he decided to go home. Though he started as a weaver working in Haarlem's famous white linen damask industry, van der Vinne quickly took to painting, and would take on any"
"Cleanness Cleanness (Middle English: ""Clannesse"") is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the ""Pearl poet"" or ""Gawain poet"", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", ""Pearl"", and ""Patience"", and may have also composed ""St. Erkenwald"". The poem is found solely in the Pearl manuscript, ""Cotton Nero A x"". That manuscript also contains ""Pearl"", ""Patience"", and ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"". None of the poems has a title or divisions of chapters, but the breaks are marked"
"languor""), meant that it would start within 48 hours and that the resistance should begin sabotage operations especially on the French railroad system; these lines were broadcast on 5 June at 23:15. Chanson d'automne ""Chanson d'automne"" (""Autumn Song"") is a poem by Paul Verlaine, one of the best known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine's first collection, ""Poèmes saturniens"", published in 1866 (see 1866 in poetry). The poem forms part of the ""Paysages tristes"" (""Sad landscapes"") section of the collection. In World War II lines from the poem were used to send messages from Special Operations Executive"
"Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are ""Dulce et Decorum est"", ""Insensibility"", ""Anthem"
"Sare Jahan se Accha ""Sare Jahan se Accha"" (; Hindi: सारे जहां से अच्छा; ), formally known as (, Hindi: तराना-ए-हिंदी ; ""Anthem of the People of India""), is an Urdu language patriotic song written for children by poet Muhammad Iqbal in the ghazal style of Urdu poetry. It is often called the 'National Poem of India'. The poem was published in the weekly journal ""Ittehad"" on 16 August 1904. Publicly recited by Iqbal the following year at Government College, Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan) it quickly became an anthem of opposition to the British Raj. The song, an"
"Easter, 1916 Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The uprising was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed for treason. The poem was written between May and September 1916, but first published in 1921 in the collection ""Michael Robartes and the Dancer"". Even though a committed nationalist, Yeats usually rejected violence as a means to secure Irish independence, and as a result had strained relations with some of the"
"L'Année terrible L'Année terrible is a series of poems written by Victor Hugo and published in 1872. They deal with the Franco-Prussian War, the trauma of losing his son Charles, and with the Paris Commune. Covering the period from August 1870 to July 1871, a group of poems encapsulates each month, blending Hugo's anguish over personal tragedies with his despair at the predicament of France. ""J'entreprends de conter l'année épouvantable,""<br> ""Et voilà que j'hésite, accoudé sur ma table."" <br> ""Faut-il aller plus loin ? dois-je continuer ?"" <br> ""France ! ô deuil ! voir un astre aux cieux diminuer !"""
"Ulalume ""Ulalume"" () is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as ""The Raven"", ""Annabel Lee"", and ""Lenore""), ""Ulalume"" focuses on the narrator's loss of his beloved due to her death. Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound. Additionally, it makes many allusions, especially to mythology, and the identity of Ulalume herself, if a real person, has been a subject of debate. The poem takes place on a night in the ""lonesome October"" with a"
"her novel ""February"", The earliest works of poetry in British North America, mainly written by visitors and targeted at a European audience, described the new territories in optimistic terms. One of the first works was Robert Hayman's ""Quodlibets"", a collection of verses composed in Newfoundland and published in 1628. After World War II, Newfoundland poet E. J. Pratt described the struggle to make a living from the sea in poems about maritime life and the history of Canada. In 1923, his first commercial poetry collection, ""Newfoundland Verse"", was released. It is frequently archaic in diction, and reflects a pietistic and"
"The Merry Month of May (poem) The Merry Month of May is a poem by Thomas Dekker (c. 1572–1632), an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer. 'The Merry Month of May' was a part of Dekker's play, ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"", first performed in 1599. The poem is included within Act 3 Scene V of the play. In a scene set in a ""french hood"", where people are performing for some of the major characters of the play. Little is known about the poem, other than its publication in The Shoemaker's Holiday. <poem> ""O, the month of May, the merry month of"
"Howl and Other Poems Howl and Other Poems is a collection of poetry by Allen Ginsberg published November 1, 1956. It contains Ginsberg's most famous poem, ""Howl"", which is considered to be one of the principal works of the Beat Generation as well as ""A Supermarket in California"", ""Transcription of Organ Music"", ""Sunflower Sutra"", ""America"", ""In the Baggage Room at Greyhound"", and some of his earlier works. For printing the collection, the publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, another well-known poet, was arrested and charged with obscenity. On October 3, 1957, Judge Clayton W. Horn found Ferlinghetti not guilty of the obscenity charge,"
"James Thomson (poet, born 1834) James Thomson (23 November 1834 – 3 June 1882), who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem ""The City of Dreadful Night"" (1874), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment. Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, and, at the age of eight (after his sister died and his father suffered a stroke), he was sent to London where he was raised in an orphanage, the Royal Caledonian Asylum on Chalk (later Caledonian after the asylum) Road near Holloway. Soon after"