The Poetic Messenger

Author : Kali dasa,Kālidāsa,Dhoyi,Rupa Gosvamin,Rūpagōsvāmī
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814757147

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Ha_sad_ta by Kali dasa,Kālidāsa,Dhoyi,Rupa Gosvamin,Rūpagōsvāmī Pdf

Sanskrit messenger poems evoke the pain of separated sweethearts through the formula of an estranged lover pleading with a messenger to take a message to his or her beloved. The plea includes a lyrical description of the route the messenger will take, as well as the message itself. In the fifth century C.E., Sanskrit's finest poet, Kali dasa, composed "The Cloud Messenger." The beautiful and pure expression of an exiled lover's longing is among the best known and most treasured of all Sanskrit poems. In the twelfth century, Dhoyi imitated Kali dasa's masterpiece in "The Wind Messenger." Dhoyi's sentiments of love are blended with praise of the poet's royal patron King Lakshmana sena of Gauda (Bengal). Numerous more followed, including the third in the CSL selection, the sixteenth-century "Swan Messenger," composed also in Bengal by Rupa Go svamin, a devotee of Krishna. Here romantic and religious love combine in a poem that shines with the intensity of love for the god Krishna.

Author : Veronica B. White
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781491806371

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The Poetic Messenger Part Ii by Veronica B. White Pdf

If you liked Part 1 of The Poetic Messenger, you will love Part 2. Veronica White continues to advocate and tell the story of people, who cannot write or express their ideas, thoughts, or experiences. In order to tell the stories of these wonderful individuals, Veronica puts herself in their shoes and connects with them either emotionally, spiritually, and sexually. As a result, she writes as The Messenger to their pain, joy, and frustrations as depicted in this poetic prose called, Time to Heal: Time to heal Time to set aside unnecessary pills Time to get back on track And take the time to just relax: Smell a rose Bass in the sun Watch the children play and run Time to change your attitude And show a little more gratitude To experts who are trying their best And love ones who comfort in distress Sickness can be unreal But you must continue to live And be thankful for each new day Praying away the pains of yesterday Life is like a vapor of smoke. One minute were here Seconds later, were gone. Tomorrow isnt promised, And time waits on no one. When our life on earth is finished, Our mission is done.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590929695

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The Southern literary messenger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Literature
ISBN : IOWA:31858045698408

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Southern Literary Messenger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068390155

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The Western Literary Messenger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aamer Hussein
Publisher : Saqi
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846591037

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The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein Pdf

"A thing of beauty. . . . You must read it."—Nadeem Aslam "A shower of pleasures."—Julia O'Faolain "Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and seductive, the novel engages mind and senses alike."—André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary Supplement Like his parents, he too spent many hours sending cloud messages to other places, messages of longing for something that he knew existed otherwhere. London, that distant rainy place his father lived in once, is where Mehran finds himself after leaving Karachi in his teens. And it is there that his adult life unfolds: he discovers the joys of poetry, faces the trials of love and work, and spends his dreaming hours "sending cloud messages to other places," hoping, one day, to tell his own story. A feeling of not quite belonging anywhere pursues Mehran as he travels to Italy, India, and Pakistan. But the relationships he forms—with wounded, passionate Marvi, volatile Marco, and the enigmatic Riccarda—and his power of recollection finally bring him some sense, however fleeting, of home. Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in his teens. He lectures at the University of Southampton and the Institute of English Studies and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His novella Another Gulmohar Tree was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Europe and South Asia 2010.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190613594

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The Flight of Love by Anonim Pdf

After a sleepless night spent longing for his absent wife Sita, Rama, god-prince and future king, surveyed his army camps on a clear autumn morning and spied a white goose playing in a pond of lotus flowers. Seeing this radiant creature who so resembled his lost beloved, he began to plead with the bird to give her a message of love and fierce revenge. This is the setting of the Hamsasandesa A Message for the Goose, a sandesa or "messenger poem" by the medieval saint-poet and philosopher Venkatanatha, a seminal figure for the Srivaisnava religious community of Tamil Nadu, South India, and a master poet in Sanskrit and Tamil. In The Flight of Love, Steven P. Hopkins situates Venkatanatha's Sanskrit sandesa within the wider comparative context of South Indian and Sri Lankan literatures. He traces the significance of messenger poetry in the construction of sacred landscapes in pre-modern South Asia and explores the ways the Hamsasandesa re-envisions the pan-Indian story of Rama and Sita, rooting its protagonists in a turbulent emotional world where separation, overwhelming desire, and anticipated bliss, are written into the living particularized bodies of lover and beloved, in the "messenger" goose and in the landscapes surrounding them. Hopkins's translation of the Hamsasandesa into fluid American English verse is framed by a comparative introduction, including an extended essay on translation, detailed linguistic notes, and an expanded thematic commentary that weaves together traditional religious interpretations of the poem with themes of contemporary literary relevance.

Author : Paul Robeson,Zora Neale Hurston,Wallace Thurman,Dorothy West
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780375755392

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The Messenger Reader by Paul Robeson,Zora Neale Hurston,Wallace Thurman,Dorothy West Pdf

The Messenger was the third most popular magazine of the Harlem Renaissance after The Crisis and Opportunity. Unlike the other two magazines, The Messenger was not tied to a civil rights organization. Labor activist A. Philip Randolph and economist Chandler Owen started the magazine in 1917 to advance the cause of socialism to the black masses. They believed that a socialist society was the only one that would be free from racism. The socialist ideology of The Messenger "the only magazine of scientific radicalism in the world published by Negroes," was reflected in the pieces and authors published in its pages. The Messenger Reader contains poetry, stories, and essays from Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, and Dorothy West. The Messenger Reader, will be a welcome addition to the critically acclaimed Modern Library Harlem Renaissance series.

Author : Markus Zusak
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307433480

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I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak Pdf

DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF AND AN UNFORGETTABLE AND SWEEPING FAMILY SAGA. From the author of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger is an acclaimed novel filled with laughter, fists, and love. A MICHAEL L. PRINTZ HONOR BOOK FIVE STARRED REVIEWS Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. That's when the first ace arrives in the mail. That's when Ed becomes the messenger. Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?

Author : Eleanor Wilner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015039923423

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Reversing the Spell by Eleanor Wilner Pdf

Eleanor Wilner is blessed with an amazing gift of seemingly perpetual transformation. With an ear for the line that is utterly captivating and an uncompromising vision, her poems are at once passionate and elegant as they range among subjects as diverse as Greek mythology, the space program, her favorite bookstore, or modern painting. Following in the tradition of the Hebrew prophets and ancient Chinese sages, her poetry offers startling insights into myth, culture, and the human psyche.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119098825

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Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Author : Rachel Tzvia Back
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0935162488

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A Messenger Comes by Rachel Tzvia Back Pdf

Poetry. Rachel Tzvia Back's third full-length book of poems, A MESSENGER COMES is a harrowing book that takes the reader to the edge of grief. As Hank Lazer's writes, while Back's book is "beautifully rich and emotionally engaging, this is no simple book of consolation. In its steadfast beauty, it is a book of questions: can grief be sustained? What can we learn from the grief of another? Thus this is a messenger we will want and need to welcome time and again."

Author : R. T. Smith
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807126748

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Messenger by R. T. Smith Pdf

A companion volume to his previous collection Trespasser and the second book of the trilogy "Dreaming in Irish", Messenger continues R.T. Smith's exploration of the threshold between story and song. Employing a disciplined and echoing free verse, Smith touches the sources of emotion without losing his poems' extraordinary composure, offering coherence and order in service of the ecstatic note. Binding the lyric to narrative, these poems move almost imperceptibly from delicate descriptions of the poet's native southern landscape to memories of a tender boyhood amid Scots-Irish relatives to the customs and politics of contemporary Ireland. They invoke Audubon, Bartram, Dickey, Poe, and Joyce to pursue the mythic patterns behind everyday circumstances and the joyful possibilities in work, music, and family life. Smith weaves the language of Catholic faith with both American and Irish rural surroundings, providing the fuel for quiet allegories. He listens and observes, and seeks to bridge the chasm between his world and his words, exercising what he calls a desire old as cave paintings, the wish to entice some wild thing and make beauty local, to bring something graceful close to home.

Author : Annemarie Schimmel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469619606

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And Muhammad Is His Messenger by Annemarie Schimmel Pdf

The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never been understood by the Western world. Using original sources in the various Islamic languages, Annemarie Schimmel explains the central place of Muhammad in Muslim life, mystical thought, and poetry. She sees the veneration of Muhammad as having many parallels in other major religions. In order to understand Muslim piety it is necessary to take into account the long history of the veneration of Muhammad. Schimmel discusses aspects of his life, birth, marriage, miracles, and heavenly journey, all of which became subjects for religious devotions. By using poetic texts and artistic expressions and by examining daily Muslim religious practices, Schimmel shows us the gentler side of Islamic religious culture, providing a much-needed understanding of religion as it is experienced and practiced in the Islamic world. This is the first book in English to deal with all aspects of the veneration of the Prophet Muhammad. It is an expanded version of Schimmel's Und Muhammad Ist Sein Prophet, originally published in German in 1981.

Author : Sidney Wade
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807128252

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Celestial Bodies by Sidney Wade Pdf