The Thessalian period in Simonides' career is followed in most biographies by his return to Athens during the Persian Wars and it is certain that he became a prominent international figure at that time, [22] particularly as the author of commemorative verses. According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, [23] the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian (who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists [24] but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon. [25] Davis, Angela Y. (1971). If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance. The Third Press. ISBN 9780893880224. Daniel Hoffman’s carefully chosen metaphors make ‘Yours’ a truly beautiful love poem. Hoffman’s complete dedication to his lover is obvious — in comparing her to everything from summer evenings to snow-capped mountains, it seems he cannot stop thinking about her throughout the changing seasons. 33. "A Love Song for Lucinda" by Langston Hughes Love Is a high mountain Stark in a windy sky. If you Would never lose your breath Do not climb too high. Anne Bradstreet’s Puritan belief that marriage is a gift from God comes across strongly in ‘To My Dear and Loving Husband.’ Reading it through a modern lens, it’s easy to start the poem feeling a little skeptical; however, Bradstreet’s genuine gratitude and dedication to her husband soon manifests to make it a deeply moving assertion of true love. 7. "Always For The First Time" by André Breton There is a silk ladder unrolled across the ivy There is That leaning over the precipice Of the hopeless fusion of your presence and absence I have found the secret Of loving you Always for the first time

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In his play Peace, Aristophanes imagined that the tragic poet Sophocles had turned into Simonides: "He may be old and decayed, but these days, if you paid him enough, he'd go to sea in a sieve." [42] A scholiast, commenting on the passage, wrote: "Simonides seems to have been the first to introduce money-grabbing into his songs and to write a song for pay" and, as proof of it, quoted a passage from one of Pindar's odes ("For then the Muse was not yet fond of profit nor mercenary"), which he interpreted as covert criticism of Simonides. The same scholiast related a popular story that the poet kept two boxes, one empty and the other full – the empty one being where he kept favours, the full one being where he kept his money. [43] [44] According to Athenaeus, when Simonides was at Hieron's court in Syracuse, he used to sell most of the daily provisions that he received from the tyrant, justifying himself thus: "So that all may see Hieron's magnificence and my moderation." [45] Aristotle reported that the wife of Hieron once asked Simonides whether it was better to be wealthy or wise, to which he apparently replied: "Wealthy; for I see the wise spending their days at the doors of the wealthy." [46] G. E. Lessing (1836). Laocoon; Or The Limits of Poetry and Painting. J. Ridgway & Sons. pp.xvi – via Google books. The persecution of the Jews, the way we treated the occupied countries, or the things in Greece, in Poland, in Czechoslovakia or in Holland, that were written in the newspapers.... I believe, we Confessing-Church-Christians have every reason to say: mea culpa, mea culpa! We can talk ourselves out of it with the excuse that it would have cost me my head if I had spoken out. One of poetry’s hallmarks is that it uses language economically. While a piece of fiction might describe a character in a paragraph or two, a poem might do so in a line.Katherine Mansfield has been praised for her ability to simplify complex emotions through short stories and poetry. One of the more tranquil poems on this list, ‘Camomile Tea’ paints a picture of a couple who are calm and quiet and happy with the life they’ve made for themselves, highlighting the underrated joy that peaceful familiarity and comfort can bring in a relationship. 40. "Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi" by Nathan McClain Because who hasn’t done that — Michael Psellos accredited him with "the word is the image of the thing." [53] Plutarch commended "the saying of Simonides, that he had often felt sorry after speaking but never after keeping silent" [54] and observed that "Simonides calls painting silent poetry and poetry painting that speaks" [55] (later paraphrased by the Latin poet Horace as ut pictura poesis). Eschewing rhyme and regular verse line lengths, and bringing the language of autumn poetry down to earth in the most literal sense, Hulme also manages to capture the wistful magic of the season of autumn. This poem marked the start of modernist poetry in England. (We have more classic poems about the moon in a separate post.) In ‘I Love You’, Ella Wheeler Wilcox lays out the tiny moments that add up to why the speaker feels so passionately about her love, before going on to describe the colder attributes she’s not looking for in a relationship. This juxtaposition helps to make the initial love she describes all the more special. 64. "We Have Not Long to Love" by Tennessee Williams About: “The Threepenny Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1980. It is published in Berkeley, California, by founding editor Wendy Lesser. Maintaining a quarterly schedule (March, June, September, December), it offers fiction, memoirs, poetry, essays, and criticism to a readership of 10,000.”

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Ceos lies only some fifteen miles south-east of Attica, whither Simonides was drawn, about the age of thirty, by the lure of opportunities opening up at the court of the tyrant Hipparchus, a patron of the arts. His rivalry there with another chorus-trainer and poet, Lasus of Hermione, became something of a joke to Athenians of a later generation—it is mentioned briefly by the comic playwright Aristophanes [16] who earmarked Simonides as a miserly type of professional poet (see The Miser below)

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Each year, the judges of the Forward prizes read virtually every new collection published in the UK and Ireland and choose their favourites for this book. The current edition includes work by American wunderkinder Danez Smith and Kaveh Akbar, Liz Berry’s wonderful The Republic of Motherhood and hot new Faber writer Richard Scott. I may be biased as the prizes’ founder, but I had absolutely no hand in the judging, which was done by a five-strong jury chaired by Bidisha. For a one-volume overview of what’s current in poetry, this is indispensable. A longer version by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a charity established by the British government, is as follows: [4]

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Widely regarded as the ‘Father of English poetry’, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote some of the most renowned works of the English language, including ‘The Canterbury Tales’ and ‘The Book of the Duchess’. The standalone poem ‘Rondel of Merciless Beauty’ (here translated from Middle English) recounts Chaucer’s heartbreak after being left by the love of his life, pledging his everlasting devotion to her even though it pains him. 16. "Love Comes Quietly" by Robert Creeley Simonides of Ceos ( / s aɪ ˈ m ɒ n ɪ ˌ d iː z/; Greek: Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556–468BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of the nine lyric poets esteemed by them as worthy of critical study. Included on this list were Bacchylides, his nephew, and Pindar, reputedly a bitter rival, both of whom benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry. Simonides, however, was more involved than either in the major events and with the personalities of their times. [1] Horace meant that poetry (in its widest sense, "imaginative texts") merited the same careful interpretation that was, in Horace's day, reserved for painting. Follow the link above to read the whole of Keats’s classic autumn poem, and learn more about these allusions.

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On the flip side, sometimes you need a lot of words to communicate your message. These poetry quotes are longer, meatier, and can feel like poems themselves: Boedeker, Deborah & Sider, David [Eds.] 2001. The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire, New York & Oxford: Oxford U. Press - USA. A collection of essays on the Simonides papyri.There are three extended images woven throughout the poem. The fierce weather — snow and frost and rain, describes the conditions suffered by the men — but it is also a metaphor for their death from hypothermia and the pointlessness of the war. In 1936, however, he decidedly opposed the Nazis' " Aryan Paragraph". Niemöller signed the petition of a group of Protestant churchmen which sharply criticized Nazi policies and declared the Aryan Paragraph incompatible with the Christian virtue of charity. The Nazi regime reacted with mass arrests and charges against almost 800 pastors and ecclesiastical lawyers. [8] The only decorative word is 'long-winged' ( τανυπτέρυγος), used to denote a dragonfly, and it emerges from the generalised meanings of the passage as an 'objective correlative' for the fragility of the human condition. [81] The rhythm evokes the movement of the dragonfly and the mutability of human fortunes. [82] Ethics [ edit ]