IMPERATIVE
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IMPERATIVE. The
MOOD of the
VERB used to express commands (‘
Go away’), requests (‘Please
sit down’), warnings (‘
Look out!’), offers (‘
Have another piece’), and entreaties (‘
Help me’). Sentences with an imperative as their main verb require the person(s) addressed to carry out some action. Hence, the subject of an imperative sentence is typically the second-person pronoun
you, which is however normally omitted, as in ‘
Go away’, but appears in the emphatic ‘You
do as you're told!’ First- and third-person imperatives refer to the doer of the action or the requirement to perform the action less directly:
‘Let's go now’;
‘Someone close the window’.
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Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, the Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism; Artists Bookworks; East Sussex, England, 2002, Pp. 304. The new volume of Guillaume Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters published by Peter Read...
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Guillaume Apollinaire. "Alcools."
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Guillaume Apollinaire. "Alcools". Etudes; reunies...des exegetes les plus eminents d'Apollinaire, on eut pu s'attendre a ce qu...references precises a l'oeuvre d'Apollinaire, ainsi qu'aux multiples etudes...
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Urban pastoral: tradition and innovation in Apollinaire's "Zone" and Rilke's "Zehnte Duineser Elegie".(Guillaume Apollinaire, Rainer Maria Rilke)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...poets, Rainer Maria Rilke and Guillaume Apollinaire, create new relationships...meanings of modernity. In Apollinaire's "Zone" and Rilke's...in the poetry of Rilke and Apollinaire. It contains what is most...
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Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Claudel et le Groupe des Six: Rencontres poetico-musicales autour des melodies et des chansons.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Jean Cocteau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Claudel et le Groupe...bibliography, index. Cocteau, Apollinaire, Claudel et le Groupe des Six...devotes chapters to Paul Claudel, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Jean Cocteau (in that...
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Louis Zukofsky on Guillaume Apollinaire.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; (Translations of Apollinaire by Sasha Watson) A few words...Zukofsky's The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire. A major American poet discovers...non comme sont les reflets de Guillaume Apollinaire [4] There are also the posthumous...
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Contemplating Apollinaire's Bestiaire.(Guillaume Apollinaire; Le Bestiaire ou cortege d'Orphe)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; In 1911 Guillaume Apollinaire published a collection of poems entitled Le Bestiaire ou cortege...over their illustrations, which are chosen by the publisher, Apollinaire collaborated closely with Dufy as the woodcuts progressed. Together...
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The Weekly Poem: Exercise By Guillaume Apollinaire Translated By Robert Chandler
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/7/2000; 372 words
; ...of death From the new Everyman's Poetry selection of the work of Apollinaire (Everyman Paperbacks, pounds 2), in translations by Robert Chandler. Guillaume Apollinaire was born in Rome in 1880, of Polish and Italian parentage. He moved...
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Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Peter Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters; Apollinaire and Cubism; Artists Bookworks; East Sussex, England, 2002, Pp. 304. The new volume of Guillaume Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters published by Peter Read...
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Guillaume Apollinaire 21: Apollinaire et le portrait.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Guillaume Apollinaire 21: Apollinaire et le portrait. Ed. by MICHEL DECAUDIN. Paris: Revue des...Clancier), delivered at the 1999 Stavelot conference, focus on Apollinaire as a theoretician of portraiture, as a producer of poetic...
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Guillaume Apollinaire.(poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Swaggering through the muddy trenches of love- Lessness just to hunt down a bloody scent In the open heart of Guillaume Apollinaire A count without money a real no account Wandering aimlessly through the Paris streets From dawn until dusk lusting...
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) was a great French lyric poet. A leading figure in the avant-garde before World War I, he produced criticism and theortical writings that have significantly influenced esthetic movements...
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Apollinaire, Guillaume
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Apollinaire, Guillaume ( Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky...appeared in 1960 under the title Guillaume Apollinaire: Chroniques d'Art 1902...critic’ (‘ Guillaume Apollinaire: The Painters' Friend’...
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cubism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...artists and poets (Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gertrude and Leo Stein...Kupka, Marcoussis, Gleizes, Apollinaire, and others); the Orphists...today. Bibliography See G. Apollinaire, The Cubist Painters (1913...
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Kosma, Joseph
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...de Zouzou (Vidal — short); Un Grain de bon sens (Image — short); Guillaume Apollinaire ( Je m'appellerai Guillaume Apollinaire ) (Prouteau — short); Le Sixi è me Jour (Huisman — short...
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Surrealism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...surrealism" was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 to describe Jean Cocteau...Mammaries of Tiresias. After Apollinaire died the following year, Andr...fallen poet. In contrast to Apollinaire's surrealism, which was...
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