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4 days ago · Cantares Mexicanos, poem #5 and #40, and Romances de los Señores #52. Note: This poem is found three times in the original manuscripts, with some variations. Because of that we can conclude it was a popular poem. In one version it has three verses, four in another, and ten in another. It is a call-and-response poem, a common form in Aztec ...
3 days ago · Aztec poetry was sung, spoken, or chanted, often to the accompaniment of a drum or flute. Each poem or song had its own particular cadence or beat pattern. Two different drums were used. The huehuetl was a large, upright hollow log with a skin head and an open bottom, struck with open hands.
2 days ago · Eight of Borges's poems appear in the 1943 anthology of Spanish American Poets by H. R. Hays. "The Garden of Forking Paths", one of the first Borges stories to be translated into English, appeared in the August 1948 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, translated by Anthony Boucher.
4 days ago · The death of the warrior in battle is one of two main subjects of Aztec poetry. The other, much more important, is the return of the warrior from the sky world. Let’s take a look at a stanza that talks about the warrior’s return, or rebirth. This, too, is the last stanza in a long song: provides us with life.
3 days ago · Poetica (Poetics), El Miedo (The Fear), El Pozo Verbal (the Verbal well), El Amour(Love)
5 days ago · Emily Dickinson (2414 poems) 2. Madison Julius Cawein (1231 poems) 3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1136 poems) 4. William Wordsworth (1016 poems) 5. Robert Burns (986 poems) 6. Edgar Albert Guest (945 poems) 7. Thomas Moore (849 poems) 8. Robert Service (831 poems)
3 days ago · The Old Women Of The Ocean. To the solemn sea the old women come. With their shawls knotted around their necks. With their fragile feet cracking. They sit down alone on the shore. Without moving their eyes or their hands. Without changing the clouds or the silence. The obscene sea breaks and claws.
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