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A Dream (Lawson Poem)
A Dream may refer to: Literature * ''A Dream'' (novel) or ''Somnium'', by Johannes Kepler, 1634 * "A Dream" (Blake poem), by William Blake, 1789 * "A Dream" (Poe poem), by Edgar Allan Poe, 1827 * "A Dream" (short story), by Franz Kafka Music * ''A Dream'' (album), by Max Romeo, 1969 * "A Dream" (Common song), 2006 * "A Dream" (DeBarge song), 1983 * "A Dream", a song by Jay-Z from '' The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse'', 2002 See also * Dream (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dream (novel)
''Somnium'' (Latin for "The Dream") — full title: ''Somnium, seu opus posthumum De astronomia lunari'' — is a novel written in Latin in 1608 by Johannes Kepler. It was first published in 1634 by Kepler's son, Ludwig Kepler, several years after the death of his father. In the narrative, an Icelandic boy and his witch mother learn of an island named Levania (the Moon) from a daemon ("Levana" is the Hebrew word for the moon). ''Somnium'' presents a detailed imaginative description of how the Earth might look when viewed from the Moon, and is considered the first serious scientific treatise on lunar astronomy. Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov have referred to it as one of the earliest works of science fiction. Plot summary The story begins with Kepler reading about a skillful magician named Libussa. He falls asleep while reading about her. He recounts a strange dream he had from reading that book. The dream begins with Kepler reading a book about Duracotus, an Icelandic boy who is 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dream (Blake Poem)
"A Dream" is a poem by English poet William Blake. The poem was first published in 1789 in literature, 1789 as part of Blake's collection of poems entitled ''Songs of Innocence''. Background ''Songs of Innocence'' is a collection of 19 illustrated poems published in 1789. According to scholar Donald A. Dike, the collection does not “describe an absolute state of being or fashion an autonomous truth.” Rather, he says the poems are resistant, being “consciously against something and trying to see their way through something.” Songs of Innocence was followed by Blake's ''Songs of Experience'' in 1794. The two collections were published together under the title ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience'', showing the "two contrary states of the human soul.” The poem Structure and summary In this poem, Blake portrays the concepts of the return to innocence from experience. No wonder the artist thought first of including it in “Songs of Experience” at first, finally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dream (Poe Poem)
This article lists all known poems by American author and critic Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849), listed alphabetically with the date of their authorship in parentheses. An Acrostic (1829) An unpublished 9-line poem written circa 1829 for Poe's cousin Elizabeth Rebecca Herring (the acrostic is her first name, spelled out by the first letter of each line). It was never published in Poe's lifetime. James H. Whitty discovered the poem and included it in his 1911 anthology of Poe's works under the title "From an Album". It was also published in Thomas Ollive Mabbott's definitive ''Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe'' in 1969 as "An Acrostic". The poem mentions "Endymion", possibly referring to an 1818 poem by John Keats with that name. The "L. E. L." in the third line may be Letitia Elizabeth Landon, an English artist known for signing her work with those initials. "Zantippe" in line four is actually Xanthippe, wife of Socrates. The spelling of the name was c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dream (short Story)
"A Dream" (German: "Ein Traum") is a short story by Franz Kafka. The narrator describes a dream A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensation (psychology), sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around ... in which Joseph K. is walking through a cemetery. There are tombstones around him, and the setting is typically misty and dim. Soon he sees someone carving a name on a stone, and as he approaches he notices that it is his own name. Kafka is known to have been fascinated by dreams, which he felt held great power, both creatively and emotionally.''Dreams, Life, and Literature: A Study of Franz Kafka''. C.S. Hall and R.E. Lind, University of North Carolina Press, 1970 References External links "A Dream" by Franz Kafka, full text of the short story(in EN FR DE IT ES CH). {{DEFAULTSORT:Dream, A Short stories by Franz Kafka Short stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dream (album)
''A Dream'' is an album by Max Romeo, released in 1969. The album, due to its cover design, is often referred to as ''A Dream by Max Romeo''. Produced by Bunny Lee, it featured Max Romeo's first hit, the lyrically explicit " Wet Dream". Tracks like "Wood Under Cellar", "Wine Her Goosie" and "The Horn" continued the rude theme, though songs such as "Far Far Away" and "Love" were more traditional ballads, the latter made more outstanding through vibrant Rastafari-influenced percussion; "Club Raid" speaks of Romeo’s survival of a punitive police bust. Track listing All tracks composed by Max Romeo except where indicated. ;Side A #" Wet Dream" - 2:45 #"A No Fe Me Piccn'y" - 3:12 #"Far Far Away" - 3:01 #"The Horn" - 2:22 #"Hear My Plea" - 3:24 #"Love" - 3:02 ;Side B #"I Don't Want to Lose Your Love" - 3:00 #"Wood Under Cellar" - 2:30 #"Wine Her Goosie" (Harry Dee) - 3:03 #"Club Raid" - 2:43 #"You Can't Stop Me" - 2:20 Personnel *Max Romeo - vocals *Errol Daniels - lead guitar *The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dream (Common Song)
"A Dream" is a song by American rapper Common, released in 2006 as a single the film '' Freedom Writers''s accompanying soundtrack. It is produced by fellow rapper will.i.am, who also performs the song's chorus. The song's hook samples Martin Luther King Jr.'s historical "I Have a Dream" speech, which relate to both the lyrics and the accompanying film. The single release of "A Dream" includes two will.i.am tracks, "Colors" and "Bus Ride." Music video The video for the single contains images from the movie (many of which feature Hilary Swank, its lead actress), mixed with animated series with will.i.am singing on a platform and Common rapping in corridor and bedrooms before stylized images of the Civil Rights Movement. Television footage of the "I Have a Dream" speech is exposed on guide throughout the video. The imagery is destined to increase the song's messages of determination in the face of discrimination, and ambition for a racially equal world. Track listing # "A Drea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Dream (DeBarge Song)
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is '' a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, '' a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest known ancestor of A is ''aleph''—the first letter of the Phoenician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gift & The Curse
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
