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That terrifying chant in the '28 Years Later' trailer and film is a 122-year-old Rudyard Kipling poem: director Danny Boyle explains why it's there.
There is currently, however, one notable drawback with the Poetry Camera — it needs Wi-Fi to work as it requires a connection to compose the poems. However, Zhang and Mather are looking at ways ...
The poem's precise metre - the first four words of each line are read at a rate of two per second - matched the time to which soldiers marched. American actor Holmes, who died in 1959, appeared in ...
Entertainment ‘I want people to read my poems and think ‘maybe I do like poetry’' - Siobhán Flynn, winner of the 2025 Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry David Roy chats to Dublin poet ...
But even without its mention in the film, Walt Whitman’s poem deserves a spot on our list of the most famous poems ever written. Penned in 1865 as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln, who was ...
The poem itself addresses fundamental tension between ‘traditional’ Irishness and queer sexual identity: Mise aerach – Sine mé ná Cailleach Bhéara, cros na sagart, teacht na nGael ...
Understanding poetry learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.
Dropsy (also known as edema, hydropsy, ascites, or bloat) presents as severe bloating in your pet frog. Your African dwarf frog may look like a balloon that will just float away if given the ...
Do you know what green sickness is? What about bronze john, or St. Vitus' dance? Surely you must be familiar with Woolsorter's disease? Actually, these are all old names for diseases and ...