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The poem was composed in response to a multi-page advertisement for the new $28 million hotel Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. The Great Depression had begun to hit New Yorkers and disproportionately affected minorities in the city. [2] The disparity between the rich and poor was widening at the onset of the Depression and Jim Crow laws ...
George Whitefield. George Whitefield (/ ˈhwɪtfiːld /; 27 December [O.S. 16 December] 1714 – 30 September 1770), also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican minister and preacher who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. [1][2] Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1732.
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
The Green Eye of the Yellow God. The Green Eye of the Yellow God, a 1911 poem by J. Milton Hayes, is a famous example of the genre of "dramatic monologue ", a music hall staple in the early twentieth century. [1][2] The piece was written for and performed by actor and monologist Bransby Williams. [3][4] It has often been misattributed to ...
Nationality. American. Other names. A. A. Payn, C. A. M. Notable work. "In the Garden". Charles Austin Miles (January 7, 1868 – March 10, 1946) was a prolific American writer of gospel songs, who is best known for his 1912 hymn "In the Garden". He studied at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and the University of Pennsylvania.
Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...
The series centered on two best friends: 10-year-old Annie Redfeather, who is Native American, and 11-year-old Zach Nichols, who is white. In each episode of the series, one of them commits an act contrary to that day's chosen virtue (loyalty, compassion, courage, moderation, honesty, etc.) and suffers pain as a result (be it physical or moral).
Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you'll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only this, “They are ...