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Nov 4, 2008 · In Dr. Nicolas Bazan's brilliant first novel, neuroscientist Alvaro Cruz finds himself haunted by a recurring dream of a banjo player in an elusive cornfield that leads him on a personal quest to uncover the mysterious past of a New Orleans street singer known as Una Vida.
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Of Mind and Music (previously titled Una Vida: A Fable of Music and Mind) is a 2014 American drama independent film based on the 2009 novel Una Vida: A Fable of Music and the Mind by Nicolas Bazan, and written by Richie Adams and Nicolas Bazan.
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‘Ode’ by Arthur O’Shaughnessy celebrates the underlying energy of the English race. It is a poem to praise, to enjoy, to bring to the attention of the viewers, and no subject is as closely tied to the celebrated poet’s pen as that of poetry and art itself. In this poem, Arthur O’Shaughnessy dedicates his work to the artists, the writers, the painte...
‘Ode’ by Arthur O’Shaughnessy consists of nine stanzas. Each stanza of the poem has eight rhyming lines. The rhyme scheme of the poem is abab. It means that the poem is written in the regular rhymescheme. As an example, in the first stanza, “makers,” “sea-breakers,” “world-forsakers,” and “shakers” rhyme together. In the rest of the lines, “dreams,...
‘Ode’ by Arthur O’Shaughnessy showcases several important literary devices to make poetic words more appealing and forceful. Metaphor: In “the dreamers of the dreams,” the poet uses a metaphor for creative imagination. There are personal metaphors in the phrases “lone sea-breakers” and “desolate streams.” Besides, there is an important metaphor in ...
Stanza One
‘Ode’ by Arthur O’Shaughnessy presents the famous phrase “movers and shakers” in the first two lines of the poem. This stanza is very straightforward: it is written to the artists, to the “music-makers” and the “dreamers of dreams,” and the fact that no one artist is mentioned, no one art-form, is what helps this poem to gain such a widespread appeal. Art, in this poem, has a fluid definition. Everything can be art, so long as there is creation involved, and beauty, and desolation of the spir...
Stanza Two
In the second stanza of ‘Ode,’O’Shaughnessy goes into detail about the boon that is artistry, about what artists have done for society. He states the majesty of what artists manage to do – “with wonderful deathless ditties / we built up the world’s great cities/ and out of a fabulous story/ we fashion an empire’s glory.” Thus the poem celebrates something innate to creation: fantasy and the wielding of stories to push society forward. Above all, this poem wants to make it very clear that arti...
Stanza Three
In the third stanza, O’Shaughnessy lauds once more the power of artists. He references the cities of Babel and Nineveh, lending the idea of art as an almost divine creation that in itself creates divinity. The importance of the artist to O’Shaughnessy’s ‘Ode’ cannot be overstated. He attributes an almost Godly manner to the idea of the artist, and through the final stanza, shows that it is ultimately the artist himself who creates and kills his mythology. Still, there will always be other art...
Arthur O’Shaughnessy was an Irish poet who was born in London in 1844. He worked at the British Museum as an entomologist and herpetologist. However, his true love was poetry, and he spent countless nights bent over thick volumes, translating French literature and writing poetry. The poem Ode came from his 1874 publication, ‘Music and Moonlight’, a...
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The poem addresses Paz’s principal themes: the relationship of self and other, the theme of alienation, and the quest for communion and transcendental experience.
Oct 16, 2014 · Sleep escapes him, the alcohol flows ... until one day on the streets of New Orleans, he witnesses an elderly woman named Una Vida (Aunjanue Ellis) singing. In her song, he recognizes signs of Alzheimer's – forgotten words, forgotten phrases.
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