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"The Man Who Sold the World" is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie. The title track of Bowie's third studio album , it was released in November 1970 in the US and in April 1971 in the UK by Mercury Records .
"Six poems from "A Shropshire Lad" were set to music in "On Wenlock Edge" by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Patrick Kavanagh. The poem On Raglan Road was put to music when the poet met Luke Kelly of the well-known Irish band The Dubliners in a pub in Dublin. It was set to the music of the traditional song "The Dawning of the Day" (Fáinne Geal an Lae).
The Road Not Taken. " The Road Not Taken " is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation ...
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn. " The World Is Too Much with Us " is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in ...
Auguries of Innocence. " Auguries of Innocence " is a poem by William Blake, from a notebook of his now known as the Pickering Manuscript. [1] It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist 's biography of Blake. The poem contains a series of paradoxes which speak of ...
Critics have analyzed the musical or sound of the poem as opposed to its literary meaning. A. E. DuBois in "The Jazz Bells of Poe" places the emphasis on the musical quality of the poem which presages jazz and 20th century musical idioms. DuBois sees the poem as a dramatic song that is a precursor for Vachel Lindsay. DuBois makes comparisons to ...
In My Craft or Sullen Art. (Redirected from In my Craft or Sullen Art) "In My Craft or Sullen Art" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953). First published in 1946 in Deaths and Entrances, the poem describes a poet who must write for the sake of his craft rather than any material gains that may come from his work.
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."