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54 documents for cowardice poem
  • ... of Nirala's representative early Chayavad poems that form a kind of "diptych in verse": they a re ...cowardice, sensuality. kayarta, kamparta, 60. You are Brahrn...

  • ... over you at this bad time, Arjuna, this cowardice unseemly to the noble, not leading to heaven, dish... translation of a highly nuanced poem: the term dharma also implies the four purtcs[a.ba...

  • Lars Von Trier's new film "Melancholia" is unforgettable. But then so was "Antichrist," his last film. In that one, Charlotte Gainsbourg played an angry wife who maimed her husband's genitalia and caused him to ejaculate blood. You don't forget a thing like that though I have no doubt it contributed mightily to its not playing here. The Danish director's "Melancholia" had no such impediment, but I can still imagine the film causing people as much anger as Terrence Malick's masterpiece "The Tree of Life" and for similar reasons. Just as "The Tree of Life" was cinematic poetry rather than conventional cinematic narrative (leading viewers who expected the latter to think a condescending trick was being played on them), "Melancholia" represents a new kind of science-fiction tale: ...

    ... the poet's "argument" as it were before the poem by Blake or Coleridge. The actual story is in two ...A moment of vile moral cowardice precedes planetary atmospheres merging violently ...

  • ...How does each writer re-imagine the poem to make sense of the human condition and the harsh... the quaking of terror nor the shame of cowardice." His flight from Achilles is in fact the flight o...

  • Every man has his Waterloo, which is fine if you happen to be Wellington and not the other guy. Paul Revere, Dudley Saltonstall and Solomon Lovell were the other guys, the goats, in the American Revolution's biggest naval operation and our nation's worst rout until Pearl Harbor. Founding Fathers? Founding flops. What tricks history plays on innocent posterity.

    ...'s hyperbolic "Paul Revere's Ride," a poem written nearly a century after a slender fact that..., was accused of insubordination and cowardice. Lovell, the farmer in charge of the troops, refus...

  • ... You can sneer at this virtue or call it cowardice if you like.. When resistance ceases, troubles and... Days , 1985 Certainly one cannot read this poem without effort. The page is often corrupt and mud-...

  • ... teacher of feminist theory, even composed a poem that begins with "A certain white chick - Schaefer... in opinion articles." Speaking of cowardice, Ms. Miller's about-face takes the prize. . This w...

  • It was better than food, better than sex, better than anything else on the planet except love of God and of my wife and dogs. The author suggests stunning incompetence and widespread cowardice leavened with breath-taking courage. The tragic truth is that the assembly, confinement, torment, and murder of so many Jews also tied down a lot of manpower and logistics that could have helped Hitler fight the war.

    ...I think my father used to "declaim" that poem or oration when he was a youth and entered oratory...

  • In "Here, Bullet," the title poem of his excellent collection, Afghanistan and Iraq War veteran Brian Turner wrote: "here, Bullet,/ here is where I complete the word you bring [--] here, Bullet, / here is where the world ends, every time. In essence, war is not nations, or politics, or history: War is man and man with a bullet (or arrow or spear) between them, each completing that word, and ending a world, minute by minute.

    ..., fear (not the same thing as cowardice), ignorance, cruelty and stupidity that he sees. ...

  • Seidman comments on the poetry of Adrienne Rich. He stresses that Rich's poetry--her energized, pointed, ongoing, and imaginative discourse of examination, probing its intentions even as it writes out its intentions--is an astonishing chronicle of how it has been for her to be alive right now, which is perhaps one of the few definitions of "radical" that he might be willing to accept.

    ... to write, the way I might read to write a poem, although now it is this tribute that I want, alth...: "In Central Park we talked of our own cowardice. / How many times a day, in this city, are those w...



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