(n.) One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
(n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Eric Canto delivers his concession speech in Richmond, Virginia.
(2) Whole tracts of Pound's Cantos are "found" passages lifted verbatim from secondary sources.
(3) Doubles from £33, B&B Pousada Canto Bravo, Ilhabela Bonete beach Accessible only by foot or boat, Canto Bravo sits, illuminated mostly by candlelight, on the isolated beach of Bonete (pictured), regarded as one of Brazil’s finest.
(4) Alan Fairlamb, professor, University of Dundee , Dundee, Scotland Make drug research available to all, but keep co-ordinated when using it : The Tres Cantos Open Lab Foundation founded by GlaxoSmithKline is an interesting example of open science.
(5) In the opening canto, Dante is "full of sleep", and when he meets Paolo and Francesca he is so moved by their story that he drops into unconsciousness – "as if I were dying, as a dead body falls".
(6) The wonderful Villa Balthazar is run by Swedish couple Petra and Felix, who have turned their home in the tropics into a dreamy retreat on Praia do Canto beach.
(7) "Canto 25 specifically points us to this spot," Langton insisted.
(8) In 1979 he celebrated his appointment as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra with a typically electrifying concert of Brian Ferneyhough, Brahms – the First Piano Concerto, with his long-term concerto partner Maurizio Pollini – and Tchaikovsky, to whose symphonies he always brought a bel canto beauty of line.
(9) Patchett, who won the prize 10 years ago for Bel Canto, is shortlisted for State of Wonder, a gripping Amazonian adventure story about the search for a drug that could change women's lives.
(10) It is no longer restricted to large, faceless hotels; I was here to visit the island’s first glampsite, Canto das Fontes .
(11) Earlier work had suggested an intra-axonal dissemination for this virus (M. C. Dal Canto and H. L. Lipton, Am.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Canto das Fontes glamping site, Madeira The reality turned out to be rather different.
(13) • Where to stay: If you want comfort, Canto Bravo .
(14) The company has offered developers in neglected medicines laboratory space at a centre in Tres Cantos, near Madrid.
(15) joedolce.net The National Anthem of Italy – Il Canto degli Italiani , which translates as The Song of the Italians – is a lively patriotic lyric, a musical mix between a church hymn and a military march.
(16) Photograph: Alamy Canto das Fontes is a magical place: just two tipis on a banana farm on Madeira’s sunny south coast.
Poem
Definition:
(n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
(n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
Example Sentences:
(1) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(2) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(3) His parting tribute to the Things Fall Apart author, said Soyinka, would be the poem he wrote to Achebe when he turned 70.
(4) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
(5) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
(6) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
(7) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
(8) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
(9) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(10) His collection of poems Beware Soul Brother (1971) and the volume of short stories Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) drew on the experiences of the war.
(11) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(12) Other big-name winners at the Sony awards included Sir David Attenborough, named speech broadcaster of the year, and Bono, for BBC Radio 4's Elvis By Bono, in which the U2 frontman read a self-penned poem about Elvis Presley set to archive clips and music .
(13) When, as a sixth-former, I sent my first, almost-publishable poems to Ross, he returned them, but not with a printed rejection slip.
(14) He even recited Tennyson's poem to a classroom of Russian children in Moscow, possibly a tad insensitively, given that it was about an incident in the Crimean war, though they nodded politely.
(15) Eliot's poem – composed in the emotional carnage of the post-second world war period – was originally entitled (borrowing, shamelessly, from Dickens's Our Mutual Friend), He Do the Police in Different Voices.
(16) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
(17) Although the precise etiopathogenesis of the vascular proliferations remains speculative, these lesions merit study since they constitute an easily recognizable marker of POEMS syndrome.
(18) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
(19) Hundreds of postcards, letters and parcels arrived, carrying not only words but also books, photographs, maps, stories and poems.
(20) She was shortlisted for a Forward prize at the age of 30 for her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, took the TS Eliot prize with her second , a remarkable book-length poem about the river Dart, and is now, 15 years later, widely hailed as one of British poetry's finest, brightest voices.