Poems, Lyrics and Diverse Thoughts
Title | Poems, Lyrics and Diverse Thoughts PDF eBook |
Author | Guy Calvert Henley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2019-05-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781097970971 |
By David Lee Henley contains the compilation of virtually a lifetime of writing. It condenses life in all its many situations into easily relatable compositions. Written in a plain English style the author brings animation to life's most challenging and heartfelt occasions in a way the reader can grasp as a "moment in time" they themselves have lived, or have witnessed in other people's lives. Showing a sense of understanding not often encountered in the flighty poetry of many, the author has a deep and heartfelt grasp of the inner soul in writing these poems. When reading these poems, there will be an applicable understanding of the feelings expressed.Literally every poem has a story to tell. Whether it be the melody unheard, but felt, from the many song lyrics in the first chapter, which express many stories about life in a myriad of situations, or to the many other topics covered, all conveying their "moment" as all consuming. The reader is put into and becomes one with, the "moment".There are several categories of poems to give the reader a "change of pace," as it were. Thus so, allowing for a different subject matter when wanted and the reader can alternate from one subject matter to another seamlessly when a different mood entices them.Using the Table of Content can get readers to a specific area of interest for quick look ups. It is well defined and categorized so anyone can see at a glance what may appeal to them and easily explore and find a certain poem or thought that fits special needs or desires. Every one has a poem in this book that defines or relives an occasion in their lives. So, there is something aimed toward everyone here.The first chapter is where you find all the song lyrics, separated into four categories. The first being the COMEDY lyrics. As levity is always a good start in any situation. In the second category you find SPIRITUAL. These are family based and talking to GOD. The third category being PATRIOTIC have two songs. One about the country and the other about the next terrorist. The fourth and last category being MIXED LOVE AND LOST LOVE THEMES, have many lyrics which the reader will find are heart felt, true life, story themesThe second chapter DIVERSE THOUGHT, contains three categories. POLITICS: Which are in this day, controversial at best. Pick a side. This area contains three statement poems. Some will hate them, some will love them. But all are thought provoking. The next category, AGING: has two poems meant to be satirical. But some may think it is otherwise. The last category is RANDOM THOUGHTS; Which just like its name, is what they are. Covering different subjects The third chapter TRUE LOVE AND DEVOTION; are just what the title implies. These are the "just you and me" scenarios Lots of feel good love expression moments.The fourth chapter LOST LOVE: is as expected, the poems about the sadder side of life. We've all been there. And probably, there are more poems here that we have lived through, or seen others go through, than any want to admit.And lastly, the fifth chapter. The author has added his Fathers song lyrics as an acknowledgement and tribute of and to his contribution to the song writing world.If you harbor a certain feeling or desire to read about something your experiencing or have gone through in the past, this book could possibly give you some solace, or may just have the, "put into words", poem you have been looking for.It is hard to believe you haven't lived one of these poems sometime in your life.
Phases of Thought and Feeling, Poems and Lyrics
Title | Phases of Thought and Feeling, Poems and Lyrics PDF eBook |
Author | James Henry Powell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | |
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Lyric Poetry
Title | Lyric Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Mutlu Blasing |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2009-01-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400827418 |
Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language.
Ideas and Forms in English and American Literature: Poetry
Title | Ideas and Forms in English and American Literature: Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Homer Andrew Watt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 776 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Citizen
Title | Citizen PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Rankine |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2014-10-07 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1555973485 |
* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.
Homiletic Review
Title | Homiletic Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought
Title | W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Snezana Dabic |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2016-11-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1443884898 |
This book presents an in-depth study of the influence of Indian philosophical and religious thought on W.B. Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work. It traces the development of this influence and inspiration from Yeats’s early impressionistic work to the mature and elaborate incorporation of Indian ideas into the structure, themes and symbolism of his writing. It recognizes the importance of his Indian friendships, Indian essays, and shows the limits of his Indianness. While providing a comprehensive analysis of Yeats’s poetry and his bizarre poetic play, The Herne’s Egg, from an Eastern perspective, the book examines how Indian philosophical concepts guided Yeats in constructing his characters, imagery, and symbology, and in shaping the structure of his dramatic narrative. Yeats’s liminal positioning between Orientalism and Celticism, Irish nationalism and British imperialism, and his heterogenous literary aspirations and modernist poetic idiom are probed and explored in order to position him on a pendulum of postcolonial debate. The focus in this book is on the aesthetic appreciation of the parts of Yeats’s creative opus where he engaged with Eastern thought, with genuine interest and enthusiasm, when the pendulum swings towards Yeats being a mythopoetic and anticolonial writer.