| 单词 | stanza |
| 例句 | He pushed on to the final stanza of the prophecy. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They inquired after her studies and she was asked to recite a few stanzas from “The Daffodils.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence—the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A few more stanzas, and they cracked open, revealing a triangular crevice. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The only noise in the kitchen is her pen on the page crossing out and adding in, writing and rewriting stanzas, mixed with the slicing of scissors, the tearing of paper. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I found it on the last page, in the very last words—not poetry in stanzas, just Frank’s prose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Stories are also divided into paragraphs, chapters, stanzas, scenes, or episodes, each with their own endings, to help us keep track of things and understand what is going on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Maybe she’ll find “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and write down the stanza that comes before the peach one. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The final three stanzas of “Song of Myself” were also highlighted. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I hummed a stanza of Areida’s favorite song, a sad one, about a farmer whose family is starving. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Holden read the last stanzas again and then looked up at me. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I sing the words until the second stanza, when I can’t remember them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, therefore, an eerily prophetic song, especially the stanza that went: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For some reason, the last stanza to “The Hanging Tree” starts running through my head. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I reached the end of the refrain before Aloine’s first stanza. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The Raven”’s first stanza is the best. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the final stanza, it’s clear that that’s what he’s waiting for. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z By the time I got to Mr. Winston's class, he was wrapping up his usual theatrics and a weeklong lesson, explaining the final stanza of the poem. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z By the last four lines of the stanza, most of the Marines were on their feet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Gregor and Henry had played out the last stanza of “The Prophecy of Gray.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then we chose our own stanza but recited the last one together. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Over and over she played the new record Father had bought for her, imitating each sound until she was certain she could repeat a stanza. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z My father sings all four stanzas of “The Hanging Tree” and reminds me that my mother—who sleeps in a chair between shifts — isn’t to know about it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z There was nothing to do but gesture to the right and gesture to the left, exactly as she had practiced, only faster and faster, until finally the stanza was done. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z We alternate stanzas, first Finch, then me, Finch, then me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The final stanza of “The Prophecy of Gray” left out all the details that would have made it useful. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The parentheses of the third stanza suggest a little jokey aside, something muttered privately by the speaker to his auditors. Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z In the second stanza, a slightly dislocated, Latinate grammar floats the poem towards symbolism. Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z The song has two long tangled verses, but separating them down into poetic stanzas gives me the opportunity to pluck the images that were defining a poor Black early '90s experience. I always loved hip-hop, but Nas transformed me into a fan, which ultimately changed my life 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Told in rhyming stanzas and accompanied by storybook-style illustrations, the book chronicles a parent's fruitless efforts to put his child down for the night. 'Go the F— to Sleep' author announces a f—ing sequel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z One of that poem’s 13 haiku-like stanzas speaks of “The mood/Traced in the shadow/An indecipherable cause.” Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The term “ordering patterns” isn’t just a euphemism for stanzas, rhyme schemes and meter. Review | Everything you ever wanted to know about poetry (but were afraid to ask) 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z From the carefree, whimsical lines of the opening stanza to the reflective meanderings of the concluding stanza, the singers and orchestra maintained a sense of adventure. Review | Washington Master Chorale shines in concert of works by 4 living composers 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z In the next stanza, the turn seems complete. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z At end of the first stanza, he asked another question. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z The tone in these later stanzas seems to fluctuate. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z In the course of fifteen stanzas, Hughes moves through a short history of black America. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Entwined in the narrative of stanzas one and two are references to the grandfather's "words". Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z It stuck because my mom, like others I have met, has always preferred sentimental to splurge-y gifts, even if my stanzas could never compare to Keats or Ginsberg. Mother’s Day Gifts, Reframed 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z The second stanza is looser than the first, and at times more impressionistic than precise. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z And the comment about it not being “inclusive” — what is exclusive about the first stanza? Letters: Readers on SAT prep, national anthems and au pairs 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Running to 91 stanzas, the poem is a prophetic dream, an apocalyptic vision of Regency Britain and the shaky legitimacy of its ruling class. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z A shift takes place halfway through the stanza: Read those final three lines on their own and they seem to be about something much vaster and more ominous than a potentially invasive backyard plant. A Poet Who Looks at the Stuff of Daily Life and Sees Looming Apocalypse 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In the first stanza, Traherne writes an apologia for the "sweet mistake" on which the poem elaborates: a mistake which, of course, is a conceit, deliberately plotted. Poem of the week: 'Shadows in the Water' by Thomas Traherne 2010-12-20T10:13:09Z The piece unfurls like a series of stanzas. Sutra | Dance review 2010-03-17T22:00:00Z In the opening stanzas of the Book of Mormon, they have a moral dilemma — How do we kill, how do we slay this person? Cancel Gay Pride until we have marriage equality! 2010-06-25T15:19:00Z Prose writers work in chapters with far less self-awareness than poets work in stanzas or composers in movements. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The bounce of this versified self-portrait — there are six more stanzas — is quite irresistible, as T.S. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z "You see" in the next stanza could suggest an addressee other than the reader or the speaker's self. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z Of course, the use of variant meters in a single stanza is common among the Elizabethan and metaphysical poets, but here the pattern seems to be additionally suggestive. Poem of the week: 'Shadows in the Water' by Thomas Traherne 2010-12-20T10:13:09Z A medical investigation might be suggested in the opening stanzas: there are the microscope and slide, and those weakened states implied by "your specimen" and "a victim". Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z The narrative slows luxuriantly in stanza five, and pauses on the easy confidence of "the air of other summers". Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z The published version consists of poetic stanzas trundling from one page to the next, attributed to First Voice, Second Voice and Third Voice. Giving Voice to Sylvia Plath?s Pregnant Women 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z In the last stanza, there's "a grey overcoat", the indefinite article detaching the coat from its owner – fellow commuter or lingering ghost. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z We cut out the third stanza of the national anthem, which actually is very racist. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In the course of the seventy-minute show, Schachter’s score tracks the changing tones of the poem’s stanzas, likewise shifting in tempo and style. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z After the conventional epic invocation, the second stanza introduces our hero: "Whilome in Albion's isle there dwelt a youth." Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z There's more background information here, besides the further two stanzas my version omits. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z He was a poet, and he’d written a few lyric stanzas in English, which he dreamed of turning into a song. Leaving Aleppo 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Never fully embodied, never warm, the coat is only momentarily sinister, when the child sees its empty shape in stanza four. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z Those pieces would benefit a lot from re-editing from the original manuscripts so that we get the right notes and the right words and the right stanzas from the right hymns and so on. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In 1938, he added a stanza that seemed to discourage American intervention in the Second World War: “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z But for Key, that question — does the banner still wave? — was just the prelude to three more stanzas that seek to explain why the American flag should still wave. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z "Wrists" in line four seem to salute the freedom but twist it into something else; "the colour of blood" shadows the second stanza. Poem of the week: Jasmine by John Eppel 2010-07-12T13:28:00Z In retrospect, the three stanzas seem to contain the best and worst of a country’s impulses. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Most are sketched out in the opening stanzas, and I imagine many of his readers would have waded through the political/historical material in the hope of seeing that sketch occasionally filled out. Rereading: Childe Harold by Lord Byron 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z Still, because she tends to cite only one or two stanzas at a time, her comparisons of poets or poems are often superficial. Review | ‘Don’t Read Poetry’ is a literary manual for the Instagram era 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Watch these egrets/ stalk the lawn in a dishevelled troop, white banners/ forlornly trailing their flags; they are the bleached regrets/of an old man's memoirs, their unwritten stanzas./ White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z But as that tight and high-minded stanza gives way to florid fantasizing — Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z All the stanzas work separately, and all work together in forming an overall architecture. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z If you read many poetry reviews, you may have noticed the convention of representing a line break with a forward slash, and a stanza break with two forward slashes. How Poets Use Punctuation as a Superpower and a Secret Weapon 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z The incident that, one night, forced a late homecoming, was foreshadowed by the "hold-ups" on the road at the end of stanza two. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z In unhurried, expansive stanzas, a solitary narrator observes the passengers' comings and goings. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z With its episodic and asymmetrical stanzas, the verses have a strange and no doubt deliberate nomadic quality. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z There's a Biblical tone, particularly audible in the third stanza. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z The poem keeps building this way; each stanza growing by one line until we arrive at the last one, 12 lines long. ‘Homie,’ a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z There’s a reason why so many poets have stared at their breakfast and seen stanzas. The New York Times should eat its words: breakfast is for champions 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The book’s 80-page central poem is composed of nothing but juxtaposed language from titles and catalog descriptions of works of art in which black women appear, grouped into sets of roughly chronological stanzas like this: The challenge and joy of poetry by Robin Coste Lewis and Adrian Matejka 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z There's also that raffish wink at the end of the first stanza. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z The scenes play off one another like stanzas, producing patterns and echoes that feel like the camera’s accidental discoveries, even as they are the surest evidence of Ms. Coppola’s formidable and subtle art. | 'Somewhere': The Pampered Life, Viewed From the Inside 2010-12-21T23:13:01Z Two stanzas later, the first-person narrator appears and confirms that, yes, it's our bibliophile speaking. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z Rather, like the stanzas in Blake’s poem, her book raised more questions than it answered. Margaux Fragoso, Memoirist Who Wrote Hauntingly of Sexual Abuse, Dies at 38 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z In the poem's last stanzas, Hughes describes how he was told of the death. Poem by Ted Hughes tells of Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-07T18:32:00Z The last stanza seems to twist the knife again. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z But, though she later described “One Art” as “pure emotion,” Bishop guarded her feelings in the final version’s last stanza, pretending bravery. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In the first stanza, the mountains of line one are elevated in the next by "mounts of snow", a linguistic effect and a snapshot revealing the snow itself as mountainous. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z The final stanza couldn’t be clearer in purpose: Leon Russell, From Rising to Resurgent 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In another example from “West Side Story,” he complained about a stanza from “America,” which was sung by a chorus of young Puerto Rican women. Stephen Sondheim, Titan of the American Musical, Is Dead at 91 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z She reads waterways as if they were stanzas of music. Characters Who Crave a Return to the Past, Human Sacrifice and All 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Now consider those lines in contrast to the closing stanza of “Prospero’s Books,” a standout in Mr. Fitzgerald’s book “George Washington”: Memories Distilled by 2 Radically Different Poets 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The spectators decided the metaphoric image that sat in the third stanza meant to describe the abstract idea was the agent of my poem. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z In the last stanza, though, Housman rhymes three intransitive verbs – "nighs", "sighs", "replies". Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z I gave my idea a form, a structure in which to be contained stanzas, line breaks that were cues. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z There's a nice, humorous little tribute to Welsh poets in stanza three: they sing like wingless, ie human, nightingales. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z Closing the first and shortest stanza, they draw us into the hearthside of the poem. Poem of the week: A Fire Shared by Peter Didsbury 2010-06-28T11:43:00Z It begins "I watched thee when the foe was at our side" and the last stanza has the greatest split infinitive in literature. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z There is such delight and anticipation in this stanza. Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z The former moves from rhymed stanzas to free verse and from exquisite language to surreal or raw images. The best poetry books for December 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The poem's slant rhyming emphasises the way the present imperfectly echoes the past, with the four-fold "A" rhyme of each stanza nevertheless insisting on recurrence. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z Now none but a parodist dare essay the Burns stanza. My Hero: Robert Burns 2013-01-25T09:30:01Z Still, if I were fleeing to the proverbial desert island, I’d sacrifice the whole of Mr. Domingo’s output to preserve that single “stanza” of Pavarotti’s. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z No lyrical stanzas were allowed in al-Shabab-controlled areas, and the al-Qaida linked militants banned music as a "sin" punishable by public flogging. Mogadishu festival helps move past sounds of war 2013-04-08T13:02:13Z The first poem's opening stanza sums it up well: "Sweetness, some cloudlessness, some shapes, / a random horse, the rolling arrangement / of the mind, with open eyes." Constellations by Ian Pindar - review 2012-06-08T21:55:04Z Once read, it stays in the head forever, in part because of the ballad stanza, so weirdly fresh in her capable hands. The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z In “Mean Free Path,” a collection of poetry published in 2010, Ben Lerner kicked off a stanza like this: “There must be an easier way to do this/I mean without writing.” Review: ‘The Hatred of Poetry’: Let’s Count the Ways 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But a poem can be a powerful campaign tool, as Mr. Biden made evident again Thursday when a favorite stanza from Heaney’s “Cure at Troy” went out on the candidate’s Twitter feed. Joe Biden and the Arts: No R.B.G. but a Loyal Promoter of Culture 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The poem, which consists of five numbered stanzas, “is not a poem about the life of Franz Schubert,” he says, “it’s a poem about what music means to me and to mankind.” ArtsBeat Blog: A Poetry Reading from Nobel Prize Winner Tomas Transtr?mer 2011-10-06T16:02:27Z A stanza echoed in WH Auden's Epitaph on a Tyrant: "when he cried the little children died in the streets". Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z The chill comes indoors, as it did, benevolently, in stanza five, "with little said". Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z Perhaps because of its pithy, if riddling, directness, the opening stanza of “Final Notations,” the last poem in “An Atlas of the Difficult World,” willed its way into my memory like a popular song. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The second stanza is arresting, with that strange image of the "mind" taking hold of the trees, an act both destructive and creative. Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z The sentence often flows on over stanza break, and finds its caesurae in designedly awkward places. Poem of the week: St Brenhilda on Sula Sgeir by David Wheatley 2010-12-13T12:26:00Z The following stanza starts thus: Women hid him, concealed him in girls' sarongs; days of sweetmeats, spices, silver songs... Carol Ann Duffy the classicist (on David Beckham and Achilles) 2010-03-19T11:53:00Z And his "b" rhyme gets a further rhyme, so each stanza, in effect, ends on a couplet. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z The comparatives of the second stanza form a landscape – old hills, newly swollen streams – but why are these features specifically English? Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z Their chimes are sometimes distant – all/wall, for instance, six lines apart in the first stanza. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z There’s a stanza in his poem “The Choir” that I think of often: What We’re Reading This Summer 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z In one of the more brutal numbers, inspired by a stanza about the false promises of the Emancipation Proclamation, performers dance with chains and gleefully jump rope with a giant noose. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Each stanza consists of one complete sentence, broken into six short, uneven lines whose rhythms lift and fall like the movement of small, brisk waves. Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z The stanzas are all sextains, with lines two, four and six sharing a full rhyme, and one, three and five unrhymed. Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z Somehow, the triplet stanzas also have the rhythm of the waves in them. Poem of the week: St Brenhilda on Sula Sgeir by David Wheatley 2010-12-13T12:26:00Z Because one thing we can perhaps all agree on is that The Walking Dead is at its weakest when it has characters wanging on in epic, hammy, expository stanzas. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode five recap – The King, the Widow and Rick 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z The second stanza expands the sense of chill introduced by the "shadow". Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z The first published collection of her poems, from 1890, cleaned up her eccentric punctuation and spelling, cut stanzas and created titles, presenting her as a more conventional poet than she was. A Very Modern Emily Dickinson (Twerking Included) 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Vigorous support from the postwar German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, helped keep the final stanza alive, and it has remained official ever since. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Though the situation’s murky, the syntax estranging, the form itself is familiar, for most of the book: left-justified lines, grouped into stanzas. In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Their style of writing is long poems, long lines, few stanzas. U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on the art of poetry 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z A few stanzas down from the stars line, which I annotated with giant asterisks, Notley writes: “World is coming to an end means, Word is coming to an end.” In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It's outlined in general and unemotional terms in the climactic sixth and seventh stanzas, with a faint touch of extra-dry humour in the litotes of "pointed questions", "whoever they had come to see", etc. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z Though written for three voices, this meditation on pregnancy and childbirth takes the form of poetic stanzas and lacks named characters, stage directions, dialogue – all the markers by which we recognise a text for performance. What makes a play unstageable? 2010-09-28T15:18:00Z There’s the romance of quiet scenes, when Townsend pauses between stanzas, simply looking up at the whisper of light streaming in from a high vent, as if seeing a familiar ghost. ‘Incantata’ Review: An Elegy in Words, Video and Potatoes 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z She sets the syntax of her sentences at odds with her stanzas, imbuing them with momentum, and the effect, for the reader, is of being ushered through a Whitmanesque cataloguing of time, thought, and feeling. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The hostages are lined up; when released, they gather in a similar line, so that we recall the "lines" of the opening stanzas. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z They have to have heart and a story, which makes their struggles through challenges such as “The Herculean Pull” into epic stanzas in a hero’s song. American spirit, as seen on TV via "The Masked Singer" and "The Titan Games" 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z For four nights the fine Mancunian actress Maxine Peake gripped audiences with what seemed less like a recitation of Shelley's stanzas than their fiery incarnation. The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable; The Machine; The Masque of Anarchy – review 2013-07-20T23:06:09Z The unit of the sentence becomes the stanza. Poem of the week: Puppet by Gillian Allnutt 2012-11-19T10:39:07Z Within the liturgy, I tried to find the stanzas closest to my state of affairs and came up with: For the sin of a confused heart. I fooled around with the rabbi 2013-02-10T02:00:00Z In the tangled stanza he creatively plays with clucked and plucked and how other rappers don't paint pictures, they just trace them. Jay-Z's "The Black Album" turns 20 and is more relevant than ever 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z The film franchise is nothing new, but the film franchise that wraps up in instalments, with a final stanza that divides and metastasises, seems a perplexing innovation. Worst ideas of 2012: the rise of the multi-part movie 2012-12-28T23:00:11Z The last stanza opens orchestrally with the varied assonance of "prismatic and metallic tones." Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z Although the darts' ownership is not discussed in the first stanza, their presence evokes a corresponding sense of absence. Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z The middle stanza begins by drawing back to unfold a larger perspective of place and time. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z MacBeth's language is beautifully melodic: the stanzas unfold like operatic arias, becoming more florid and complex in thought as the poem develops. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z Only in the first stanza is the pattern different. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z After the election of new members each semester, the society conducts a ceremony in Poe's room that includes the reading of a stanza of "The Raven," Herndon said. Edgar Allan Poe's UVa room to undergo renovation 2011-04-28T14:28:09Z That perspective is one of pathos sustained through 20 stanzas of Latin verse. A ‘Stabat Mater’ for the 21st Century, Colored by a Composer’s Faith 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The stanzas moved to Dante’s terza rima, but the poem began in patois: “This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes.” In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The first poem itself has two stanzas, but, despite their separate numbering, the effect is unitary. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z She continues: "Summer came looking for blood/ And by autumn I was left with nothing," and ends the stanza with heartbreak: "It's been a bad five years." Mary J. Blige puts accent on pop with 'London Sessions' 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Here’s a passage of his I’m particularly fond of, part of the second stanza of his piece “A Tone Poem”: The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z Written as a sequence of three-line stanzas, it is deeply narrative, even conversational: a poem stripped of poetic language, as if Hirsch couldn't bear such fripperies. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Shook opens with a kind of epigraph, a stanza from Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again,” throwing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan some poetic shade. At the last reading of exiled Iranian poet Mohsen Emadi before he is barred from the U.S. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Though Park borrows from the form, she doesn’t adhere to it; most of the students’ responses comprise multiple two- to three-line stanzas, giving them a jerky quality. Linda Sue Park’s New Book of Poems Is Just a Drill 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Consider, for instance, this stanza, spoken by a plant expert, from the poem “In the Nursery”: A Poet Who Looks at the Stuff of Daily Life and Sees Looming Apocalypse 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z While we worked through the incredible imagery in “The Waste Land,” we were also disturbed by the opening stanza of “Gerontion.” Letters to the Editor 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z The specific stanzas concern a garden "unwatch'd," "unloved" and "uncared for" until a youngster with no historical connection to it chances upon it. Alan Hollinghurst bears beautiful 'Stranger's Child' 2011-10-19T23:15:05Z And, given Ms. Sheck’s penchant for ambiguity, does “lying,” which appears in a later stanza, mean telling a falsehood, or is it meant to refer to the state of being reclined or supine? ArtsBeat: Translators Get a Slam of Their Own at PEN Festival 2012-05-04T14:33:54Z A beguiling, rhythmically wild love song, it contains a few choice stanzas that made the Bowl erupt. Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Flow is important to him: margins of white space mark off sections and groupings of GIFs that are meant to scan as cohesive paragraphs or stanzas. How Dennis Cooper Creates Fiction from GIFs 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Seaman describes Nevelson’s great walls and towers as “wooden poems, each box a stanza, each piece a word, yet they are not tethered to any one language. They speak to everyone.” 7 female artists you don’t know — but should 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Limit yourself: Entries must be 140 characters or less including slashes to separate stanzas, spaces between words and the hashtag #STpoem. Seattle Times Twitter poetry contest: Send us a sweet Tweet 2010-03-30T22:12:00Z The stanzas find their own length, as the narrative dictates, and there are daring blends of metre and rhythmic pace. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z Each of the six lines of its six stanzas contains six words, and every line ends with one of the following six-letter words: “spares,” “traces,” “spread,” “denial” “arrest” and “poster.” Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z The verse is written in an informal Sapphic quatrain, its stanzas sometimes impressionistic 'scenes' or vivid jottings. Poem of the week 2010-05-10T10:24:00Z The performer lands emphatically on the words “Michael Jackson” as they repeat at the top of each stanza, but it sounds awkward every time. The Bizarre Dispute Over Whether Three Michael Jackson Songs Were Actually Sung by Someone Else 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Some believe "The Star-Spangled Banner" contains racist language, most notably in its third stanza, which is seldom sung today. How 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' racist or not, became our national anthem 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The rhythmic physicality of the language in stanza 3 suggest real-time love-making, although, as in all the stanzas, the action is only putative. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z And because this tercet is itself a mirror-image, reflecting the opening stanza, we might imagine the poem's beginning again, with this other face, smiling largely, this other skinny, agile little body with its Kalashnikov. Poem of the week: Boy Soldier by Fred D'Aguiar 2013-05-27T07:00:02Z The penultimate stanza is the most painful one: the farther away she gets, the more she remembers the person she has rejected. Poem of the week: Interstate by Anne-Marie Fyfe 2011-04-11T09:39:57Z The group, which took its name from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” recently renamed itself. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Here, in the second stanza, Yeats squares up with grand self-confidence to both Irish and classical myth-making. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z Von Fallersleben set his stanzas to the tune of an imperial anthem by Joseph Haydn, but imperialism wasn’t what he had in mind. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z This unusual piece changes gear, style and vocal configuration with almost every stanza, yet remains a work of cogent, twining beauty throughout. Seattle Pro Musica's 'Nowell' is pure vocal beauty 2010-12-16T21:52:11Z The vision is recounted in the same stanzas as were used in popular ballads. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z The narrator sustains our interest, although the humour of the opening stanzas rather evaporates. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z And then there's the unforgettable setting of Goethe's final stanzas at the end of the symphony, an evocation of the Eternal Feminine that Mahler dramatises with music of cosmic breadth and power. Mahler's total eclipse of the heart 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z They are prose lines broken into “stanzas” of one or several sentences, each an almost paragraph. In ‘The Octopus Museum,’ Brenda Shaughnessy Sees a Cephalopod Future 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z A long poem, "Inside the Glass Factory," has photographs of bottles alongside each stanza. Mattea Harvey's 'Tabloids' mashes word pictures with imaginative art 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z One night, Allen sent me a couple of stanzas by the writer Gregory Orr, from “Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved.” The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z In the original German the interlocking rhymes have the simple mnemonic power of devotional verses for the layman; each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet exhorting the reader to compassion. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It's a poem about losses, small and big, and it's stunning in the way its power accumulates, stanza by stanza. The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z But in the last two stanzas, Donne changes tone. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z In the next stanza, the smoke that curls upwards through the bare trees suggests that the wind has temporarily paused. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z Now, five years in, the cable-watching public is awaiting the final stanzas next month in the Ballad of Walter White, who has evolved into a complicated and very contemporary folk hero. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z But an anticlimactic last stanza like that of Duparc’s “Sérénade,” in which the poet Gabriel Marc fears that “in vain I seek to please you,” requires a more psychologically curious singer. Review: Jennifer Johnson Cano and Dimitri Pittas at the Morgan 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The rhymed lines also shift position from one stanza to the next, creating a feeling of rippling movement that suggests leaves ruffled by the wind: Edith Shiffert, a Poet Inspired by Nature and Her Life in Japan, Dies at 101 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Later, longer stanzas contain arcs of momentum, which the music mimics with rising lines. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z Also being displayed is a limited edition with the final stanza of The Newborn, the poem Day-Lewis wrote to mark the birth of Daniel: "We time-worn folk renew/Ourselves at your enchanted spring." Cecil Day-Lewis letters donated to Oxford library by his children 2012-10-30T00:01:03Z The poem's rhythms, that potent blend of nursery rhyme and ragtime, still thrum through me: "You do not do, you do not do/Any more, black shoe" rhyming daringly at the stanza's end with "Achoo". Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z In the second of seventeen drafts Bishop turned out rapidly during the month of October, the poem took shape as a villanelle—Bishop’s “one and only,” she later said—with its first stanza nearly finished: Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In the slow movement Ott treated melodic phrases with the sensitivity of a poet awaiting a reader to find the meaning of a stanza. L.A. Phil, Dudamel dive into the 'Mozart in the Jungle' act at the Bowl 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z In fact, the fourth stanza talks about the "blues", including the word in its trio of rhymes, and about how walking cures them. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z Metrically varied, the lines are mostly octosyllabic, and that count-of-eight seems fundamental, even where the audible syllable count is less, as in stanza three, line eight. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z The final stanzas invite the recipient to sing the songs “without hollowness or embellishment, / knowing only longing.” Opera Over the Phone Offers Passion in a Pandemic 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Her short poem AD 1066 IM outlines a period of history in one highly compressed stanza: These fought for power; not their own./ Mabel Ferrett obituary 2011-02-17T17:55:11Z The theme is pursued in the third stanza. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z All that life mining results in a cinematic experience heavily flavored with brash humor and tenderness, portraying life as warm-blooded treasure, a constant trial and in some cases, a beautifully familiar stanza. Pamela Adlon takes the plunge: Discovering even "Better Things" ahead 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z That second stanza culminates in a vision: "She is white of limb, lovely, true/ She is fair and flower of all." Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z One stanza described a “big high wall there that tried to stop me.” “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z There was a sense that this poem could have started with the second stanza, and that it might be a more interesting opening. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z The foreshortened second line in each stanza adds lightness to the casually tripping rhythm – a rhythm perhaps meant, like the blushing flowers, to evoke Mary herself. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z There is only the sound of language making stanzas into feeling. Orphic Paris, Part XVI 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “Benji” is strong, cultish stuff, full of its own stink, full of stories about death and much, much smaller things; the stanzas are long and the yarns circular. New Music: Albums From Sun Kil Moon and Robert Ellis 2014-02-10T22:49:08Z Each section begins with a stanza from the poem, some as spare as haiku. Review: Colum McCann’s ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking,’ Stories Linked by Unease 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Williams poem to make the case that a stanza without the intentional carriage returns is merely a paragraph. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Its colour and texture are deliciously realised in the second stanza, with the third adding to the intricacy by punningly evoking the streaks of colour as "figures". Poem of the week: 'My Grandmother's Opal' by Grevel Lindop 2010-12-27T09:00:03Z Among its menacing stanzas is this bit of advice: Margaret Drabble finds wit and humor where you’d least expect it 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z In the poem’s second stanza, he conjures an imaginary sister named Mary, a nurse who helps tend to their elderly parents, and meets him for coffee to reminisce. The rise of the only child: How America is coming around to the idea of ‘just one’ 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Duncan mimics the short, poignant stanzas and lyrical observations in many of Brooks’s poems — a few of which are placed throughout, beginning with “The Busy Clock,” written in 1928 when she was 11. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The fifth line may also signal a new direction, and work against the cadence to look forward to the subsequent stanza. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z Mr. Ford’s stanzas do not resemble flowers slowly fainting in their vases. ‘Selected Poems,’ by Mark Ford, Covers a Career 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The effect of a book such as “Talking Dirty to the Gods” — which reads like a single multi-section poem — is cumulative, impossible to isolate in a single stanza or individual lyric. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z I read it slowly, over the course of several weeks, taking in a section or a stanza at a time. Derek Walcott's poetry had grandeur, an exuberance of language 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Her voice lightly, icily floated, like the fog from liquid nitrogen, as she began the second stanza, with its haunting description of a sun without warmth. Review: Renée Fleming, Up Close, at SubCulture 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Like many of her peers, she favors objects that bear the marks of use, as if, having inherited a sorely used world, she’s making stanzas from its leftovers. Turning Trash Into Poetry 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z At one point in the second stanza, her memory faltered. Landing in California, Remembering Tolstoy and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Both here and in the next, final stanza, Woodward resists a certain kind of completeness in favour of a more tentative and unsparing response, the laughter hesitant and complicated. The Seacunny by Gerard Woodward – review 2013-01-18T21:00:04Z The danger here, of course, is that presenting an entire stanza of lyrics – in any song, but especially in an anthem – is risky as hell. We Are Scientists present ? the rules of writing a World Cup anthem 2010-06-10T14:12:00Z In stanza 4, the three-syllable abstract nouns are heavy and sticky, and express the ingrown quality of the wife's mental imprisonment: confusion, illusion, seclusion. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z “Ballad of Mulan” is a relatively simple tale, only six stanzas long: Mulan leaves her village to take her infirm father’s place in the emperor’s army. Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Clare has organised his details, so that from stanza to stanza we have moved deeper into the countryside – from a position close to the cottage window, then, via the twirling leaf to the lane. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z Wriggling insects are "like nouns", sunflowers are "poems we recite to ourselves", barges "pass in stanzas along canals". White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z In the next stanza, the remembered child relishes the spoon that "overfeeds my avid mouth". Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z The parade of cliched "sea" adjectives in the fourth stanza mocks Whitmanesque celebration, emphasising the point with a finely judged pause before naming names. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z Smith calls this form a “dozen,” referring to “the dozens,” the insult game the boys are playing as well as the number of stanzas in the poem. ‘Homie,’ a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z And perhaps, had the poem been a stanza longer, we might have got sick of the old passion, too. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z The abrupt shift to the third person in stanza two enacts the kind of splitting of identity, from the old to the new; the speaker's reinvention. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z The presence of this assailant gains emphasis by being cordoned off, though the clause qualifies the "not knowing" of the preceding stanza. Poem of the week: Boy Soldier by Fred D'Aguiar 2013-05-27T07:00:02Z The stanzas themselves seem like supple collars, encirclings formed by the extensive first and fifth lines. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z In the second stanza, we're probably outdoors, noticing and hearing the sparrow "on the cottage rig" – presumably the roof, or some other jutting external part of the building. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z No wonder the first stanza is often memorised: not only a visual masterpiece, it has an impressive array of sound-effects. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z You could, in fact, venture that some of the most consequential poetical stanzas in history came from a poem written in 1866 by Paul Verlaine. Christopher Buckley: Autumn Is Icummen In 2013-09-05T13:02:00Z The chain of Catholic interjections that has decorated each stanza — “Mary and Joseph!” How a Jerry Herman Song Landed a Triple Punch 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Towards the end of the stanza, for the first time in the whole poem, Shelley apostrophises Mont Blanc itself. Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley 2013-03-11T13:41:42Z Then the music changes again, to suit the "moping owl" in the next stanza. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z Only in the last stanza of the poem for Luis do I even mention his death. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z A small mistake — skipping the second stanza of “Mary’s Suffering,” he sang the third stanza twice — provided an inadvertent, expert lesson in coloring the same text two ways. Music Review: Looking at Schubert and Finding Hamlet 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z The final buoyant stanzas capture this book’s spirit best. A Love Letter to Old-Fashioned Department Stores 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The alley-like street is lined with tiny bars and dusty art galleries, as well as crumbling homes wedged between bathtubs installed in cement walls and adorned with the poetic stanzas of Cuba’s alternative writers. Sad eyes and a yearning heart: A young man’s daily odyssey in post-Castro Havana 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The tune of the refrain is strong enough to emerge without the isolation of its own stanza. Poem of the week: The Bridal Morn 2012-10-08T10:58:47Z The next stanza borrows the famous Shakespearean metaphor of world as stage, people as players. Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z The most elaborate metaphor is in stanza five, where the setting sun becomes a dishevelled angel who "Tangles his wings of fire in the trees". Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z Rocky almost has no choice but to pick up the same cadence for the song’s closing stanzas. Listening Booth: “Bachelor” by A$AP Rocky, Offset, Lil Yachty, and MadeinTYO (hehe) 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The first stanza is modeled after traditional haiku with three lines of five, then seven, then five syllables. Using haiku, more than 200 poets pay tribute to Obama 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In the opening stanzas it delicately underlines closure: choose him/ refuse him/ lose him // sound him/ found him/ around him. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z This stanza reveals the lover's frantic onward movement, his dance of death. Poem of the week: Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson 2011-03-14T11:48:11Z For all his toughness, he also wrote poems like "bluebird," which includes the stanza: Celebrating Charles Bukowski, 'poet laureate of L.A. lowlife' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Rhee explains all this and more in her extensive program notes: the ideas for each section or “stanza,” her translations from French and Korean, her experience with sea turtles. Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z But according to Will Kaufman, a folk singer and historian, Guthrie almost never sang these stanzas in public, for reasons that remain unclear. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z In the last stanza, there's no reference to the girl's ring. Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z As a child, Whack was a timid poet; she wrote her stanzas down in the private space of notebooks. Tierra Whack Stretches the Limits of One-Minute Songs 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z This idea recurs in the third stanza, where the speaker suggests a childlike device by which to transcend the absence. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z Here, forceful rhythms and stark imagery persist in stanza two. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z The rhyme-words from the first stanza recur in the last, emphasising the change of tone. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z The second stanza homes in on the details, the adjectives well-judged and nicely arranged both before and after the noun they qualify: "Their perfect grips, each tiny steel bubble firm,/ each indentation clean …". Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z Crisp, short lines, regular stanzas, occasional rhyme-patterns enhance a tone that is light and glancing, refusing self-pity. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z There is a kind of casual framing, in that the falling and fallen leaves of the first stanza are now in the last stanza mirrored by the falling feather and the falling acorns. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z By the third stanza, Mary's death has already been foreshadowed, the speaker referring to "her poor flowers, weed-o'errun, / Pansy and daffodil, rose and pink". Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z In stanza two, the sky has darkened, and the sounds have become lighter, fainter, yet somehow more intense: the beetle's "droning flight", the high, faint and silvery "tinklings" of sheep-bells. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z Several stanzas in this poem end with the word “atone.” In ‘Three Poems,’ Hannah Sullivan Writes Beautifully and Covers a Lot of Ground 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Like the sedge as the waves break over it, the fourth stanza struggles for foothold, and seems designed to remain a little unfinished. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z The last stanza turns from Whitman and water works to the social context: slums, disease and poverty. Poem of the week: Hymn of Hymns by John Rodker 2013-04-29T16:24:03Z We always hear the first stanza, but in the third stanza there's a line that goes, "No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave." "What is American music?": Ryan Coogler leads a fresh exploration of the national anthem 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z There are moments of precarious equilibrium, too, emphasised by the end-stopping of each stanza. Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z The pathos of that "waiting" will become apparent in the fourth stanza. Poem of the week: Boy Soldier by Fred D'Aguiar 2013-05-27T07:00:02Z But the braided stanzas of a poem are tenacious, forming a tough loop of imagination and language that might outlast death. Poem of the week 2010-05-10T10:24:00Z In the poem’s final stanza, the male narrator describes this confession over lunch in a restaurant: Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z In “The Summer Tree,” published in The Christian Science Monitor in 1968, for instance, the first four stanzas employ half- and whole rhymes in alternation. Edith Shiffert, a Poet Inspired by Nature and Her Life in Japan, Dies at 101 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha’s accomplished debut contrasts scenes of political violence with natural beauty: In one poem, a “nightingale departs the wet earth” two stanzas before the “sound of a drone / intrudes.” Newly Published Poetry, From Gaza to Zoom Rooms and More 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z During those 40 days of confinement he says he wrote constantly, adding to the thousands of doomed but unbreakable stanzas that he’s scrawled into a notepad amidst the clatter of a prison dorm. 03 Greedo has spent the last two years in a Texas prison but is still the beating heart of L.A.’s rap scene 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Instead of closing the second stanza, he pauses on a semi-colon and repeats the main verb, "arose", at the start of the third, to carry on an extended, sinewy, almost Miltonic sentence. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z The speaker could be indoors in stanza one, watching from the window. Poem of the week: Autumn by John Clare 2012-10-29T11:36:25Z The final stanza achieves consolation, and looks forward to "A last immortal changeless change". Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z His city and his stanzas bristle with life. To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Just a few stanzas after the lines above, Gwen reflects on the aftermath of her first sexual encounter with the damaged Arthur upon his return: What Does a Poet Know About War? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z There are comical images that stayed in my mind: the cartoon figure "morose in tweed", and the voice quoted in the third stanza that might have come from a Hammer horror film. Poetry workshop: Names 2011-07-12T10:04:43Z Let’s pause here for a moment to let the profundity of that immortal stanza sink in. Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z It is dominated by a single voice: Ms. Nixon’s, reciting stanzas instead of voice-over narration and cracking impish, sometimes impious jokes with the marvelous Ms. Ehle. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z At the end of every stanza comes the word “pause,” followed by “and begin again,” which of course likewise happens in the music. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z Whatever cadences he was imagining as he wrote it, the long sentence comprising the first stanza is curiously un-English. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z He uses the same rhyme-word, "side", and the sad, high-pitched sound of stanza one is repeated, but now there is "pride", and the hope of an intense, visionary comfort. Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z This, the sixth stanza, is where we learn that it's now Christmas morning. Poem of the week: Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 2012-12-24T09:00:14Z The second stanza begins on foot, in a scene no less magical. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z The repeated "e" rhymes in the third and fourth stanzas sound awkward. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z Full stanzas, too, from Auden and Larkin… Not familiar with everything cited, I find it safest to arrange my face into a look of broad understanding, trusting there won't be a quiz at the end. Martin Amis: 'You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist' 2011-04-02T23:08:29Z Robinson’s title evokes Hokusai, and the form he’s invented evokes haiku: Most of these poems contain three stanzas of three lines each, with frequent glances at nature. Newly Published, From Palestinian Poetry to Stories on Reproductive Freedom 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z This element of incantation recalls the last stanza of Philip Larkin's Money: "I listen to money singing … It is intensely sad." Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z She was also inspired by Arabic calligraphy and Arabic poetry, stanzas of which traditionally are often interchangeable. Saloua Raouda Choucair, a Modernist Explored 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z His stanza form of choice is often the quatrain, rhyming a/b/c/b or a/b/a/b. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z Feeling emerged from details: In a rapt version of Donizetti’s song “L’amor funesto,” the final vowel of the first stanza flowed stylishly into the start of the second. Pretty Yende’s New York Recital Debut 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The stanzas consist of three chapters in the life of Chiron, played as a wide-eyed boy by Alex Hibbert, as a brooding adolescent by Ashton Sanders and as a mostly grown man by Trevante Rhodes. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Hollander’s text, parceled out in 15 stanzas of 15 lines apiece, offers a haunting barrage of vivid impressions dealing with sleep and dreaming. 2010-01-12T07:08:00Z From stanza eight, Grey's lyricism builds to a grander music. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z Despite many interpretative pages, Booth never quotes an entire poem, simply a few snippets or a relevant stanza, just enough to illustrate a point. Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth The sacrifice becomes, in the last stanza, a "purifying rite" – if only for "believers in the afterlife". Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z Laid out on a page, every program uses indentations, stanzas, and a distinctive visual hierarchy to convey meaning. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z "Where he hangs up his overcoat" in stanza four indicates the "breezeblock, ground-floor" childhood flat, but the narrative swerves quickly back to the haunted present. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z The qualities seem physical in the second stanza, and moral in the third: being lovely and true here are connected with being "Stedefast of love". Poem of the week: Bird on a Briar by Anonymous 2013-03-25T10:53:30Z There's further startling insight in the fourth stanza, which looks back to the earth to "the least beloved human face". Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z The third and final stanza of Antwon’s poem includes a line that complements the title. What Antwon Rose’s Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The images in the last stanza are simple and striking. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z For brevity's sake, I've chosen the first 15 stanzas, where many of the best-loved lines and phrases occur, but the poem has a bigger argument and needs to be read in its entirety. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z In context, the three stanzas were, if not exactly progressive, unsurprisingly patriotic. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z These stanzas, taught in American public schools for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, have been largely forgotten. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z Its stanzas begin to read like telegraphs from a freshly broken world: Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z And its closing stanzas — cut into the headstone — the stark ending of one of his last poems. Climbing the summits of Irish literature They kind of rhyme with each other, like stanzas. Coming to the Festival of Books: Jill Alexander Essbaum and 'Hausfrau' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Wright discovered that for years she had botched the last line of the first stanza of the Scottish folk ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray." 6 geezers laying? Holidays bring on song botches 2013-12-11T14:48:03Z The first four stanzas are short and fairly similar in shape, and the strange and slowly accumulating group sound, with accordion and vibraphone, cymbals and bowed bass, repeats a figure accordingly. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z This is a variant on ballad measure, which is to say the stanza rhymes abcb and alternates tetrameter and trimeter phrasings. When Did Poetry Speak to Us? When We Were Very Young 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z A full stop and a stanza break appear to terminate the action at the end of the fourth stanza. Poem of the week: Boy Soldier by Fred D'Aguiar 2013-05-27T07:00:02Z The short closing line of each stanza creates a melodic cadence which is often a prelude to the next unit of sound. Poem of the week: Shepherds by Sasha Dugdale 2013-01-14T10:31:49Z “The result is refreshing, especially right now. His city and his stanzas bristle with life.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z There is so much more to unpack within the one stanza! Derek Walcott's poetry had grandeur, an exuberance of language 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “In Italian, the word stanza means ‘room,’” she notes. One Irish Poet Looks Back Three Centuries to Find Obsession and Inspiration in Another 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z One such poem comprised 149 lines with each stanza comparing the tipple with other popular drinks at the time, such as this one about rum: 5 historical hot cocktails that are perfect for cold weather 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The emotion reaches an almost unbearable pitch in the last two stanzas. Poem of the week: Donal Og by Lady Augusta Gregory 2010-04-19T08:47:00Z Maybe, on looking back, she felt the deviation justified by the fact that this stanza serves as a kind of introductory paragraph. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z I tell my students all the time, "Your poem is great. Now cut the first three stanzas and the last stanza." Coming to the Festival of Books: Jill Alexander Essbaum and 'Hausfrau' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The shepherds are not simply ghostly or mythic in stanza four: their association with the remote "high roads" of "kings and saints" is also a function of their work. Poem of the week: Shepherds by Sasha Dugdale 2013-01-14T10:31:49Z First stanza: I give her all my love That’s all I do. Gene Weingarten: I gave this Beatles classic another listen. Big mistake. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The second stanza evokes the tentative initial process of composition. Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z But that stanza is enough to break something open in him. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z It’s poetry by other people, none of which I have read, but which, I see now, does not rhyme and has stanzas ending in the middle of sentences. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The case of the missing hidden books 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z “Song of Prophecy,” the final stanza, concluded with a whisper. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z Competitive individuality versus totalitarian uniformity might be the deeper thought engaging the last stanza. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z One of his poems, Keeping Things Whole, begins with the stanza: "In a field. I am the absence of field." Mark Strand, US poet, dies at 80 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z In the bracing climactic stanza, he builds momentum while taking a wider view, explaining how the impossible beauty standards promoted by magazines prepare girls to be music consumers. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z Still, it’s another of the poem’s stanzas, unspoken here, that points most forcefully to “Fellow Travelers’” project. Commentary: McCarthyism makes us agents in our own destruction. 'Fellow Travelers' shows how 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z It concludes with a stanza describing the death of a fellow soldier following a poison gas attack: "Soldiers Don't Go Mad": A stunning account of poetry, paradox and the horrors of war 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z “Young faces grow sad and old,” he sang in a stanza that gives way to “I’m ready to grow young again” before the eventual chorus vow of “no retreat … no surrender.” Springsteen has mortality on his mind but celebration in his songs at London show 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z I thought about the the final line from “El Hijo del Pueblo,” the one stanza that she should hang in her new office, a prediction of a future I hope she never meets: Column: The People's Daughter? May Imelda Padilla live up to a ranchera classic 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z No heroic charges were celebrated in their stanzas. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z When California’s new poet laureate, Lee Herrick, recited “My California,” his best-known work, from the poetry stage, the stanzas had a hypnotic effect on the throngs. Big names and big dreams dominate second day of L.A. Times Festival of Books 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The right questions elicit stanzas of profane one-liners, flamboyant slang and coldblooded wisdom. The (un)holy gospel of Suga Free 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z “Apparently,” each stanza begins in English, a repetition that prompts us to notice how much lies behind appearances, behind language. Six poems that celebrate magic acts of living 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z I admit I was one who did not hear Clampitt’s music at first: Her poems often impressed me as overcharged prose, as in this final stanza of “The Kingfisher”: Review | The MacArthur ‘genius’ poet who got her first break at 58 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Mills, 75, said she doesn’t write political poetry, but the poem for her granddaughter’s birth started with a stanza about male politicians who “Yell on the TV.” Poetic politician: Maine governor’s skills include verse 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The second stanza’s metaphor — as poetic as it is — scratches the surface of a secondary, even deeper meaning: Selena Gomez finds her balance and shares her struggle in the song 'My Mind & Me' 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The teams were tied 2-all after two periods, with Hughes scoring twice in the second period and with the Blues getting goals from Kyrou in the first and Barbashev late in the middle stanza. Binnington makes 36 saves, Blues edge Devils 5-3 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Taylor mixes stanzas and prose blocks with photographs and collages and timelines. A heartbreaking poetry debut weaves webs around Latasha Harlins' 1991 murder 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z In the last stanza, he referred to art critics as “a tiny guild on the fringe of useful human endeavor” and then addressed the profession itself, reflecting modestly on his own contributions: Peter Schjeldahl, revered art critic for the New Yorker, dies at 80 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z In the final stanza of the midterms, election officials in several states are warning that efforts to intimidate voters and undermine public confidence in the electoral process are intensifying. Election Officials Say Efforts to Intimidate Voters Are Widening 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z This teenage wordsmith has been crafting arguments and channeling stanzas since elementary school. Senior at Bellevue’s Interlake High has a winning way with words 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Then, the second stanza started, and the Terrapins looked more like their 2022 selves. Hemby’s career day propels banged-up Maryland to homecoming win over Northwestern 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z The Crimson scored a pair of touchdowns and blocked two kicks in the third quarter for a 31-17 advantage and scored 10 more in the final stanza. Harvard uses balanced attack to subdue Howard 41-25 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, the Security Service of Ukraine, known by its Ukrainian acronym S.B.U., issued a statement rephrasing a stanza of a poem by Ukraine’s national poet, Taras Shevchenko. Blast on Crimean Bridge Deals Blow to Russian War Effort in Ukraine 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The closest he feels that it comes to offering a message, one felt roundly by those aboard the USS Weiss, is in the last stanza: Can this quirky Naval poetry tradition make a comeback? 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The poem “Making the Bed,” there were maybe five minutes of that really actually happening, but it’s like 10-plus stanzas. Seattle poet Luther Hughes on ‘A Shiver in the Leaves,’ his debut collection 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z In the first stanza of Floral Tribute, Armitage writes of "A promise made and kept for life - that was your gift". Queen Elizabeth II: Poet Laureate Simon Armitage marks death of monarch 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z For the rest of his life, he had an uncanny ability to recite passages of literature from memory, sometimes rattling off stanzas of Shakespeare on command. Matthew Hunt, longtime LAPD leader, dies at 91 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Rhythm: rise and fall of stressed sounds within sentences, paragraphs, and stanzas. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z While the first, familiar verse echoes “the idea of sovereignty through war and conquering,” he says, things get darker in subsequent stanzas that include imagery of trampling your enemies and instilling fear in enslaved people. How bass-baritone singer Davóne Tines is rethinking America's anthem 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The lyric continues, “I watch you fade / Keepin’ the lights on in this forsaken place” and finishes each pair of stanzas with “I hope that it was worth it in the end.” Haunted, self-possessed or just spirited: 2022's Emmy-nominated songs 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z A later stanza describes a moment of violence in a period of civil war that erases past and present alike. Words of War: A Literary Lifeline for the Battlefield 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Clague also assembles a largely exculpatory argument in regard to the notorious third stanza of our anthem. Review | An anthem reflecting the wonder and warts of the nation that sings it 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Brooks uses short lines and stanzas in which speakers list what it means to be cool: dropping out of school, staying out late, playing pool, drinking, carousing, and so on. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Years ago, I was doggedly answering the questions on a standardized high school achievement test when I was asked to identify the poetic device employed in the following stanza: Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The handwritten scroll contains details of a Chinese Communist Party meeting and several stanzas of Mao's poetry. Mao Zedong scroll thieves jailed in Hong Kong 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The Black Pearl, as he was known, had come to the N.A.S.L. to celebrate a last stanza of his career — and as an ambassador to spark the game in North America. Sounders’ Breakthrough Title Cements Seattle’s Soccer Bona Fides 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z This being so, Leithauser’s chapters cover such seemingly ho-hum subjects as iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, the stanza, enjambment, rhyming and wordplay. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The second and fourth stanzas echo but swerve, until we get the callback and negation in the final stanza: “Bird doesn’t cut me out.” Poem: Going Going Gone 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Whenever I listened to the song that meant so much to my brother I always hung on for the “dark yet” lyric without even taking in the complete stanza. One Fan’s Search for Seeds of Greatness in Bob Dylan’s Hometown In one frequently quoted stanza, the philosophy of Zen is described as “a special transmission outside the scriptures” that points “directly to the human mind.” At the Freer Gallery, a refreshing look at rule-breaking Zen monks 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z At the audition, I put on the costume and sang the first stanza of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” ‘I Asked Her If She Had a General Preference for Black Cats’ 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Divided into nine sections, or “stanzas,” the novel consists of three storylines featuring three women connected to Plath. Review | ‘The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.’ turns Sylvia Plath’s life into captivating fiction 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The Ducks knotted the game at 2, 5:34 into the second stanza. Jordan Eberle scores late in third period as the Kraken skate past the Ducks 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z He looked sharp during the Australian’s early stanza, perhaps good enough to summon greatness again and raise the championship trophy for a second time. Is Tennis Moving Into a New Golden Age? We Can Only Hope. 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Yet the reader doesn’t know what the “task” is until the third stanza. Poem: My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z So, all of you at home, in that spirit, let’s sing the closing stanza: In Seattle TV’s earliest years, Ruth Prins and ‘Wunda Wunda’ touched the youngest of hearts — indelibly 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z But for the last 50 years, as the region’s warm stanzas have increased in duration and intensity, that seasonal ice has dwindled. Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyond 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Their first product, “Centrism Games: A Modern Dunciad,” is a satire of abortion supporters consisting of 210 stanzas, divided into seven chapters of 30 stanzas each. University of Chicago professor satirizes abortion supporters in Telegram poetry group 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The first of the song’s two stanzas ends, “Death has found her sweet.” Commentary: Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines are the must-hear singers of opera today 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Below Parker’s name and dates was the final stanza of her 1925 poem “Epitaph for a Darling Lady”: 54 Years Late, Dorothy Parker Finally Gets a Tombstone 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The book often reads like poetry, and like poetry, attempting to extract meaning from any one sentence or stanza is not always possible. Twisted and cerebral, Jonas Eika’s ‘After the Sun’ depicts life in late capitalism 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z While it’s always possible the current stanza is temporary and the ecosystem could reset itself, “that is unlikely,” said Rick Thoman, an Alaska climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyond 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z My favorite observation comes from George Lucas when he was describing not the past, but the plot structure of his "Star Wars" movies: "Every stanza kind of rhymes with the last one. Hopefully it'll work." Trump or Obama: Whose legacy will reshape American politics for the years ahead? 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Its first stanza calls on all Chinese who refuse to be enslaved to use their flesh and blood to build a new great wall, by implication to resist Japanese aggression. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Strong feelings on food (especially garlic powder) 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Some of the journals are filled with song lyrics, dozens of stanzas of song lyrics. Ex-Trojan Chris Brown drowned in a Malibu pool; his death opened a window into his life 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, the actor posted a video on social media featuring a series of profound stanzas handwritten for her by Shakur. To mark Tupac Shakur's 50th birthday, Jada Pinkett Smith remembers what a poet he was 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Dozens of scientists validated Kwatchka’s observations, describing these periods of intense ocean heat and cooling as “stanzas,” which are growing more extreme and lasting longer than those of the past. Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyond 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z The veteran closer has been instrumental in the Dodgers’ recent resurgence, the third stanza of their young season. Walker Buehler's strong start helps Dodgers beat Giants, pull even in standings 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The chapter list in his book reads like a Dr. Seuss stanza: “In a Bowl,” “In the Hand,” “In the Morning,” “In the Oven,” and so on. A tomato pasta dish that revolutionizes the beloved TikTok recipe 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z One of her favorites was the second stanza of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life:” ‘Put me in a wooden box:’ Cemetery connects bodies to nature 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z I believed that the government conspired to track my thoughts and movements — as if my flaccid stanzas and banded collar Wilsons Leather biker jackets were a threat to the state. Opinion | Racism Makes Me Question Everything. I Got the Vaccine Anyway. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The Bruins led 14-11 at the end of the first quarter before breaking it open in the second, outscoring the Trojans 29-12 in the stanza to extend their lead to 20 at halftime. Osborne has triple-double in No. 10 UCLA women’s rout of USC 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z In his first collection, “Pictures of the Gone World,” his style — “at once rhetorically functional and socially vital,” in the words of the critic Larry R. Smith — emerged fully formed in stanzas like this: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights movement leader, recited the third stanza of the song to begin his benediction at the ceremony. Gannon adds ‘Black national anthem’ to pregame ceremonies 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z We were not meant to be detained by the lovely image of extended sunlight in the last line of stanza two. Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z One wrote the last stanza of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Perspective | Loughboro Road NW is named for the man who had it built in the early 1800s 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z In the final stanza he made 8 of 9 shots and led Minnesota with seven rebounds. Carr drains 3, Minnesota trips LMU 67-64 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z A visionary, almost hallucinatory “she” presides over the first stanza. Poem of the week: Blowing Smoke by Nii Ayikwei Parkes 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z On the Pebbly Beach is decidedly not a nostalgic poem, despite the final stanza’s observation “and now that I sleep diagonally / and walk alone on this beach”. Poem of the week: On a Pebbly Beach by John Birtwhistle 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Dickinson springs her best surprises in the third stanza. Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The story of the pivotal hurricane is captured in a stanza of the musical’s opening number, “Alexander Hamilton”: Inside the hurricane that drove Alexander Hamilton to America 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Gorton paused for a few seconds, cleared his throat and recited from memory a stanza from James Russell Lowell’s poem, “The Present Crisis”: Remembering Slade Gorton and his quest for truth 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The visual device used to divide the three stanzas suggests accumulating, lingering smoke-rings. Poem of the week: Blowing Smoke by Nii Ayikwei Parkes 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z "In a three-sentence stanza, he said he was going to create millions of jobs through green investments by repealing the Trump tax cuts," she said. Dana Perino praises Biden's DNC acceptance speech as 'a home run in the bottom of the ninth' 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z In the alliterative devices of the last stanza, though, the poem is also a reminder of the Old English riddle, not at all a children’s genre. Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z Others argue that this context is academic: The only part of the poem that anyone knows, that anyone ever sings, is the first stanza, the one that begins “O say, can you see.” It's time to cancel 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Here's what should replace it 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Starting out as almost pathologically unsure of himself, he matured into a tactician who achieved crushing victories in the late stanzas of the war. Opinion | Putting Heroes, and Traitors, Where They Belong 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z He believes the Black anthem is a more “powerful and patriotic” song than America’s national anthem, which was written by a slave owner who made a painful reference to slavery in its little-known third stanza. ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ hymn ignites hope across nation 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Deficiencies in the stockpile of testing kits, swabs, ventilators and protective equipment for medical staff marked the opening stanza of the pandemic in the US. 'An American fiasco': US hits grim milestone of 2m Covid-19 cases 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Now the direction of the first stanza is reversed and we’re urged to look “over the Light”. Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z The first stanza is a series of punchy declarations about a crisis of authority, almost as if Yeats were an op-ed writer in full thunder. 'Things fall apart': the apocalyptic appeal of WB Yeats's The Second Coming 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z She added, "And in the back of that Bible, there's also some writing and some stanzas that he's written in there and poems and other things that really spoke to him." Elvis Presley's notes show he probably read this book of the Bible most 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Ochs paints the rise and fall of Dean – “he played a boy without a home, torn with no tomorrow” – through the eyes of an adoring fan, in the final stanza revealed to be Ochs himself. Phil Ochs: the doomed folk singer who woke up from the American dream 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z From crumbling under pressure and losing the first four grand slam finals of her career, Clijsters finished her second stanza by winning four in a row. Clijsters returns to tennis with renewed energy the overriding goal 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Chalfant reads Eliot’s sublime stanzas with a restrained elegance such that each reaches the listener as a marvel of imagery. A celebrated actress, choreographer, composer and painter stage T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Kevin Young: And here to me, it happens both at the end—“I lay there with the baby whimpering in my arms”—but also in this stanza a few before. Ellen Bass Reads Frank X. Gaspar 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z His teammates had bet on Williams the entire fourth quarter, watching him drop 14 of his 32 points in the final stanza. Clippers' Lou Williams rolls the dice and comes up clutch 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Zhang, 30, battled hard and held set point in the tiebreak in the opening stanza but faded after losing a fierce tussle for the sixth game of the second set. Rybakina downs Zhang in Hobart to win second WTA title 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The stanzas are true to the source material. Dickinson is the wildest, weirdest, and most earnest show on Apple TV Plus 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z That’s followed by three “waves” for the chorus and orchestra that set Neruda’s stanzas. Review: L.A. Master Chorale revives Golijov's startling prophetic, globally warmed 'Oceana' 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z After more than a dozen stanzas it eventuates in affirmation: Beyond those dumb debates: To win, Democrats must reframe the discussion about America's future 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z A pause with a Georgian down in backplay - it’s been a bruising first opening stanza. Georgia v Fiji: Rugby World Cup 2019 – live! 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The Hoyas cooled off in the final stanza. Wicks’ late TD earns Davidson a 27-20 win over Georgetown 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z This is partly because it mentions September and New York, circulating fears, and the unmentionable odour of death, all in its first stanza. The right poem for the wrong time: WH Auden’s September 1, 1939 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Nowadays, he bowls with confidence in the final stanza - with numbers to match. Ashes 2019: England v Australia first Test, day five – live! 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z And then as I got to the end I said it really needs to, I think the rhyme needs to, especially in the last stanza be what blocks the poem down. Campbell McGrath Reads Czeslaw Milosz 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Titled “We’ve Come a Long Way,” it includes the stanza, There’s nowhere else quite like it,/the grace of the landscape refreshes,/the warmth of the people renews … How Royal Portrush got its (unlikely) second chance to host the British Open - Golf Digest 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z His host translated for him: “‘Death to the Saudis’, ‘Death to the Americans’ – and in respect for your visit today, they have cut out the third stanza.” ‘The Saudis couldn’t do it without us’: the UK’s true role in Yemen’s deadly war 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z This didn’t seem to do either, so I cut the stanza. The right poem for the wrong time: WH Auden’s September 1, 1939 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Callahan has always been quick with a joke in his songs—a wry aside, a sardonic observation, a perfectly self-skewering stanza. Bill Callahan Makes Good Use of Quiet 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z And in stanza thre we get World Casino old Solano and I remember at one point saying like well let's just call all four of those playing in the same sandbox. Campbell McGrath Reads Czeslaw Milosz 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z But “In Flanders Fields” did not register among the American public until the 1918 publication of American humanitarian Moina Michael’s poem “We Shall Keep the Faith,” which references McCrae’s poem in its opening stanzas. Poppy wall exhibit returns to National Mall for Memorial Day 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z The Sparks didn’t get their first field goal until the 5:16 mark, as Las Vegas opened the second stanza with a 9-0 run. WNBA favorite Aces top Sparks, 83-70, to start season 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z There were groans and boos as the game went into overtime and no shortage of gasps and cries for Washington to clear the dang puck during the first extra stanza. For some Caps fans, this Game 7 heartbreak was different 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes you feel the tension between the torrent of language and the rigid banks of his chosen stanza forms. Poetry That Bears Witness to a Changing Natural World 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The characters are taken from a stanza in a poem about plum blossoms that appears in Man’yoshu, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry, compiled sometime after 759. Reiwa: how Japan's new era name is breaking tradition 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The Bulls missed their first 10 field-goal attempts of the second stanza. Texas Tech ends Buffalo's best season in 2nd round 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z The two characters keep thinking up stanzas, but their heavy tread doesn’t allow for giggly surprise. Review: ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ from Roundabout Theatre has more showmanship than chemistry 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z I’d also try to make Israel’s ethnic nationalism more inclusive by, among other things, adding a stanza to Israel’s national anthem that acknowledges the aspirations of its Palestinian citizens. Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic | Peter Beinart 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z The chippy contest continued with the goaltenders on top of their games as each team registered 10 shots in the middle stanza. Lightning top Islanders 1-0 in shootout after goalies shine 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z David, on the way to the shower, stops to sing the first stanza of the song alone, then to a classmate. How Tarell Alvin McCraney Moved From ‘Moonlight’ to Broadway — and Beyond 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Now new evidence adds another stanza to this great cosmic verse. All Sand on Earth Could Be Made of Star Stuff 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z It sounds like a joyous romp, complete with hiccuped stanzas, but it’s a warning: The national drink is only good to deal with pain. A song for nearly every Mexican liquor, from tequila to … Buchanan’s? 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z Toronto, which had lost two in a row, had a 13-3 shots advantage through the first half of the first period and dominated the opening stanza. Nylander leads Maple Leafs to 4-1 win over Hurricanes 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z His opening stanza might indicate dissatisfaction, hypocritical or otherwise, with a relatively lofty status and private income. Poem of the week: Written at an Inn at Henley by William Shenstone 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Still, she gazed out at the afternoon sun spangling the blue-black river as he kept talking flamenco rhythms and stanza breaks. The Imagined Story Behind Leonard Cohen’s ‘Suzanne’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z If these words were written as a simple four-line stanza, it would be poetry. Readers Respond to the 9.30.18 Issue 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Now into that weird irony: enter Swift, without a discernible overt political stanza in her oeuvre, and the issue of who she is and who loves her. From Joan Baez to Taylor Swift: how musicians found a political voice 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The early verses highlight young, romantic love, while the final stanza talks about committed and enduring love. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: An uplifting letter is finally unearthed, but history is overlooked in North Carolina 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The capitalised “Freedom” recurs like a joyous shout in each of the first four stanzas. Poem of the week: Written at an Inn at Henley by William Shenstone 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z In the next stanza, Smith zooms out to show us the place that holds her lust, like a delectable treat, in its hand. Tracy K. Smith’s Poetry of Desire 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z At my mother’s bedside, I read the poem’s many stanzas as her breath grew shallow. Opinion | When a Patient Wishes to Die, and the Law Gets in the Way 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z “The full stanza of that hymn reads: ‘Faith of our fathers, living still. McCain funeral: McCain lies in state at U.S. Capitol as Pence, congressional leaders honor late senator 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z “The music player must have broken, as one stanza of the song repeated itself over and over,” Gayle wrote. Perspective | What’s worse than nosy neighbors? How about noisy neighbors? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z He rejoices in informality, the kind of freedom celebrated in the third stanza. Poem of the week: Written at an Inn at Henley by William Shenstone 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z In 1996, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his song cycle “Lilacs,” set to stanzas from Walt Whitman’s poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” George Walker, first African American composer to win Pulitzer Prize, dies at 96 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Well, I'm partial to Heaney's opening stanza, but—having heard him read it, it just was incredible. Catherine Barnett Reads Wisława Szymborska 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The heavy silences between these single-line stanzas suggest a blackout or a seizure, something more dire than a break for thought. Forrest Gander’s Grief Sounds 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z His conversation is littered with the names of old labels and the men who ran them, the stanzas of a romance that is now dusty and forgotten. Seymour Stein, the man who signed Madonna: 'My ears got me through' 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Langley allowed more than 13 goals just once this season, and the Cavaliers exceeded that in the first stanza. W.T. Woodson overwhelms Langley for Class 6 girls’ lacrosse title 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Bruno Miranda’s conversion in the fifth stanza secured passage to the round of 16, June 16-20 against an opponent to be determined by Thursday’s draw. D.C. United survives in penalty kicks to advance in U.S. Open Cup 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z “There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole,” and one of the stanzas actually explains why. Bishop Michael Curry's rousing royal wedding sermon – the full text 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z And one of the stanzas actually explains why. Love and fire: Text of Michael Curry’s royal wedding address 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z “In a sordid slime harmonious, Greed was born in yonder ditch,” one stanza begins. Music goes multimedia, but why? Three concerts point the way 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The imagery, the sounds, the line breaks, the structure of the stanzas, and other poetic elements all combine to accentuate her meaning. Tracy K. Smith, America’s Poet Laureate, Is a Woman With a Mission 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z He escaped from the prison in April 1967, and some believe he had help from prison authorities, as part of the opening stanza of the conspiracy. Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? His family believes James Earl Ray was framed. 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z The Nazis favored the first stanza, which declares “Germany above all.” Fatherland no more? Equality boss wants German anthem change 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Federal Way junior Jaden McDaniels spent much of the first half on the bench with foul trouble, scoring just four points in the first two stanzas. Federal Way finally gets going in second half, beats Curtis for spot in semifinals 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The Ducks managed a meager four shots in the opening stanza, and were outshot 41 to 17 through 60 minutes, with 13 of the Stars' attempts coming on the man advantage. Ducks deliver again for fourth win in row 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “There’s something wrong with the third stanza,” she said, although neither the Elders nor her companion were present. A rossum’s best friend 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Black legislators reminded him that Key owned slaves and his third stanza is thought to celebrate the deaths of escaped slaves who fought with the British. Houses passes ‘In God We Trust’ bill after lengthy debate 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Although our nation asks that we rise when “The Star-Spangled Banner” plays, it is usually only for the first short stanza that our attention and respect are requested. ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ continues to resonate with American society 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z The Quakers used a 10-0 run in the final stanza to end the game. Penn survives Monmouth with 101-96, 4OT classic 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Alliterative “ll” sounds braid each stanza with a mix of lull and lullaby. Poem: Roly-Poly Bug 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Or is the Syrian attacking threat going to ignite in the second stanza? Syria v Australia: World Cup 2018 qualifying play-off – live! 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z In addition, a third stanza that is almost never sung is specifically disparaging toward the runaway slaves who joined the British Army during the War of 1812 in exchange for their freedom. Has This Happened Before? 6 Things to Know About the History Behind NFL Protests 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z “We knew about the missing third stanza that criticizes the slaves who joined the British Army so they could be free. I think we were aware of all that.” Will skipping the anthem completely become the NFL's new normal? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Next up is the state song “Maryland, My Maryland,” whose stanzas declare, “The despot’s heel is on thy shore” and “Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum! Maryland!” Free speech now, free speech tomorrow, free speech forever 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Pliskova took command with a break for 3-2 in the first set and dropped only five points on serve as she took the stanza in 34 minutes. Pliskova sends out Wimbledon warning with Eastbourne win 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Expect an exciting second stanza if this Syrian attack continues. Syria v Australia: World Cup 2018 qualifying play-off – live! 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The second stanza began in much the same manner – marauding moves forward from both nations with little end product. Claudio Bravo saves three penalties to send Chile to Confederations Cup final 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The first line of Larkin’s final stanza is: “Most things are never meant.” Opinion | Let America plunge toward our fast-unfolding future 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z In “Rigoletto,” the tragic tale of a court jester and his efforts to seek revenge on the Duke of Mantua, the duke enters an inn and demands of the innkeeper, “Una stanza e del vino!” Philip Gossett, musical sleuth who revived forgotten operas, dies at 75 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z I sang along for a stanza or two. If you loved ‘The Boys in the Boat,’ don’t miss this tale of adventure 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Here are the crucial middle stanzas from a poem I believe will be read and taught widely, “Mother of People Without Script”: Mai Der Vang’s and Airea D. Matthews’s Striking Débuts 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z “Ain’t no right or wrong answer/ I just know we could go deeper/ It’s a story, every stanza/ Gotta speak in allegory, ‘spread love’ the new mantra.” Is Mick Jenkins the next Chance the Rapper? Hear him and decide at his Fillmore show. 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Emily laughs at such innocence, and readers will recall her own riotous stanza about a falling hot-air balloon: At Home with Emily Dickinson 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Gonzaga claimed a 35-32 halftime advantage but North Carolina started the second stanza with an 8-0 run as the teams traded the lead all the way until the Tar Heels pulled away at the death. Late run lifts North Carolina to NCAA title 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z On Monday, they held Japan scoreless through two periods before the favorites broke through in the final stanza. South Korea women's hockey team win first game in 19-year history 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Here are the opening stanzas of “Water Grave,” about a river crossing: Mai Der Vang’s and Airea D. Matthews’s Striking Débuts 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z From the wrenching first stanza of “This House is On Fire,” Simonett spins the desolate landscape of his heartbreak into art. Music Review: Dead Man Winter delivers rare gem over breakup 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Problem is, his poems fade in the fifth stanza. Don’t Bother Playing the Games. Our 2017 Guide Knows All. 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z A few minutes into the song, whose knotty verses grow more surreal with each stanza, Smith flubbed the lyrics. 'I hadn’t forgotten the words ... I was simply unable to draw them out': Patti Smith on her Nobel performance 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Stylized, shot largely in mild fisheye and seemingly structured in opposing stanzas while employing poetic language, the not-really-a-biopic focuses on Neruda’s time underground as his government cracked down on communists. Foreign-language Oscar entries open windows into unfamiliar cultures and new ideas 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Everybody knew the first stanza to “Amazing Grace,” but only Gwen knew the last three, which she sang alone, in honor of the past labors and future promise. The life and example of Gwen Ifill 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Carmouche lands another big takedown two minutes into the second stanza and is in side control position. Live coverage: UFC 205, McGregor vs. Alvarez 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Then there is the final section of the email, under the themed heading “It’s about you,” which — taken as a whole — reads as its own sort of inspirational pop-song stanza. When Hillary Clinton Tested New Slogans — 85 of Them 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z “Tearful, isolated, apprehensive, he refused to change the speech,” Schor writes, but he deleted the final stanza of the prayer, which proclaimed that Christians, Jews, and Muslims were all children of God. A Language to Unite Humankind 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z On “Moonlight,” he offers hope in the form of rhymed stanzas that seem an echo of “Good as I Been to You” when he sings of songbirds, flowers and the twilight. Celebrating the late career work of Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan, when he started getting obsessed with death 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z “We knew about the missing third stanza that criticises the slaves who joined the British Army so they could be free. I think we were aware of all of that.” Colin Kaepernick’s critics are ignoring the target of his protest: the racial iniquities in all of American life 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Washington of Waco, Texas, read all the stanzas of "The Star-Spangled Banner," including the one that refers derisively to slaves who fought for the British in exchange for their freedom. Diverse America divided on flag, anthem, other symbols 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z A Presbyterian, Alexander used a mashup of an African American spiritual he learned as a kid and a rally cry for Washington State University he saw on television the night before to create four stanzas. Tumwater’s Sid Otton has forged career that’s about more than his many, many wins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The opening stanza ended with two Feyenoord corners and scare for United. Tonny Vilhena edges Feyenoord past much-changed Manchester United 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The teams exchanged touchdowns in the first overtime, setting up the deciding second stanza. South Dakota rallies to beat Weber St. 52-49 in 2 OT 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z The poem reads like a celebration of existence itself, until that existence is abruptly ended in the final stanza: “Is it a crime to live in a country/where freedom/is hanged by the neck?” Voices above the chaos: female war poets from the Middle East 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The third stanza reads, ‘No refuge could save the hireling and slave, From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave.’ Colin Kaepernick’s brave decision: An open letter to the 49ers quarterback 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Quotations from famous freedom-oriented national texts, presented chronologically—the Declaration of Independence, Absalom Jones’s Thanksgiving sermon of 1808, a stanza from the spiritual “Steal Away to Jesus”—are carved into a vast, unbroken, slate-gray wall. Making a Home for Black History 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z But he is equally uncompromising on the subject of his newfound sobriety, outing himself as a “recovering drug addict” in the album’s first stanza. The Reinvention of Gucci Mane 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The opening stanza of Steven Tyler’s move into country music includes references to Jesus, mama, bullets and whiskey. Music Review: Steven Tyler’s country album shines 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z The poem’s astonishing final stanza introduces a deliberately troubled syntax to show how Rich, as a unique individual and as a representative of all women, is both singular and plural: The Art in Adrienne Rich’s Activism 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z |
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