As the film's Orphean tale unfolds, a young writer-poet-musician descends into the absinthe-soaked, decadent underworld in search of ideal love. |
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He recognises the mythical, Orphean role that poetry has played in our national conscience and the sense of identity. |
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The final section contains a series of poems recalling, sometimes more through title than progression, the Orphean myth. |
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As he retraces his footsteps on his Orphean journey with Mizuki by his side, a tapestry of human experience unfurls. |
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George seems never to have had the potential to be an Orphean poet. |
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Intertwined with her Orphean ordeal is a Japanese folk tale about a man who drowns himself after learning that his bride is secretly a bird. |
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It has the beautiful name of the Orphean Warbler and the UK hasn't been visited by one of those for over 20 years. |
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They intermingled with the Greeks and gave them the Dionysian and Orphean cults, which later became so important in classical Greek literature. |
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Bee-eaters flew low overhead, uttering their wonderfully liquid call, while Ruppell's and Orphean warblers flitted from bush to bush, and a wryneck hopped out a few yards in front of me. |
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