This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "This Be The Verse" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(September 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
"This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows.
It is one of Larkin's best-known poems; the opening lines ("They fuck you up, your mum and dad") are among his most frequently quoted. Larkin himself compared it with W. B. Yeats's "Lake Isle of Innisfree" and said he expected to hear it recited in his honour by a thousand Girl Guides before he died. It is frequently parodied. Television viewers in the United Kingdom voted it one of the "Nation's Top 100 Poems".[1]
^Rhys-Jones, Griff, ed. (1996), The Nation's Favourite Poems, BBC Books, ISBN 978-0-563-38782-4
"ThisBeTheVerse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around...
verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible. Since the early...
Look up verse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Verse may refer to: Verse (poetry), a line or lines in a poetic composition Blank verse, a type of poetry...
The Throne Verse (Arabic: آيَة ٱلْكُرْسِيّ, romanized: Ayāh al-Kursī) is the 255th verse of the second chapter of the Quran, al-Baqara 2:255. In this...
Jared Verse (born November 4, 2000) is an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college...
Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities...
context to verse 9:5 are the first seven verses of Surat at-Tawbah. 9:1 ˹This is˺ a discharge from all obligations, by Allah and His Messenger, to the polytheists...
to be completely free. In 1948, Charles Allen wrote, "The only freedom cadenced verse obtains is a limited freedom from the tight demands of the metered...
Wordsworth's The Prelude consist of verse paragraphs. Verse paragraphs are frequently used in blank verse and in free verse. Leverkuhn, A. "What Is a Verse Paragraph...
Theverse of obedience (Arabic: آيَة ٱلطَّاعَة) is verse 4:59 of the central religious text in Islam, the Quran. It reads O you who believe! Obey God...
Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English...
to be primarily in verse to be considered verse drama, significant portions of the play should be in verse to qualify. For a very long period, verse drama...
Certain verses (āyāt) from the Qur'an have been a subject of controversy among scholars. The 216th verse of the Surah, Al-Baqara (The Cow) is about Jihad...
form, verse–chorus form, ternary form, strophic form, and the 12-bar blues. Popular music songs traditionally use the same music for each verse or stanza...
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of...
In prosody, alliterative verse is a form of verse that uses alliteration as the principal device to indicate the underlying metrical structure, as opposed...
some of the techniques of nonsense literature. Limericks are probably the best known form of nonsense verse, although they tend nowadays to be used for...
Testament verses not included in modern English translations are verses of the New Testament that exist in older English translations (primarily the King James...
Theverse of the mawadda (Arabic: آية الْمَوَدَّة) refers to verse al-Shura 42:23 of the Quran, the central religious text of Islam. Thisverse is often...
Theverse of purification (Arabic:آية التطهير) refers to verse 33:33 of the Quran, the central religious text in Islam. Theverse concerns the status of...
Global Information