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These constructions are miles away from the modern-day “dirty limerick,” the sort one used to encounter with dependable regularity on the unwashed walls of public men’s rooms. For it seems the deepest truths, those of the heart that are the poet’s lifeblood, are often incompatible with straightforward expression.
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Roald Dahl’s ‘ Cinderella’is a humorous retelling of the story that includes parts of the story found only in the original Brothers’ Grimm version. He goes on to praise her beauty, declaring her body a pure and undiscovered land that he fully intends to explore. With its vivid imagery and candid language, the poem doesn’t shy away from the primal facet of human relationships, embodying the modernist ethos in literature.
Subtracting day from day, I add this woman’s ankles to my days of atonement, her lower lip, the formal bones of her face. Emma graduated from East Carolina University with a BA in English, minor in Creative Writing, BFA in Fine Art, and BA in Art Histories.
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The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went. What’s more, even in this plainspoken moment, doublespeak may have insinuated itself with a buried pun: ( Right it! These are the lips, powerful rudders pushing through groves of kelp, the girl's terrible, unsweetened taste of the whole ocean, its fathoms: this is that taste. Countless playwrights have opened the door to intimacy and created some of the greatest bawdy verses of all time. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the poem, which was not published during Eliot’s lifetime, as the first use of the word “bullsh*t.The phrase " carpe diem," from a quote by Horace, means "seize the day," and is often used to describe persuasive poetry designed to convince the object of the poet’s desire to make love—for time is short, as the argument goes, and anything might happen. The speaker describes in vivid detail the touch of her partner’s tongue on various parts of her body, as well as the joy of reciprocating those attentions.
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Because I wanted to be burned, stamped, to have something in the end— I drew the gown over my head; a red flush covered my face and shoulders. But in his early years he wrote a series of scatological limericks including the racist caricature of a well-endowed ruler named “King Bolo. I dream’d this mortal part of mine Was Metamorphoz’d to a Vine; Which crawling one and every way Enthralled my dainty Lucia. Whoever it was who condensed it down to six words did something masterly; the little announcement speaks not merely of the heartbreak of an infant’s death but also of harrowing poverty and human resilience. He was suffering from what sounds like a cold but his parents overreacted, imagining that it was something worse.If rhyme and meter are its beams and joists, wordplay is the artfully chiseled balustrade, the pillowed window seat, the foliated mantel frieze, the coordinated hues adorning the interior walls.