Each orisha has its own drum rhythm, song, and dance step. ... "The herbs come to form a sacred way of classifying all of Yoruba experience, a kind of grammar of Yoruba religion that aligns the ashe of each orisha with its dances, prayer songs, drum rhythms, and icons."" ...
In William Blake's Songs of Innocence, the poems written consist of joyful and sweet song-like lyrics creating images of childhood in a natural and happy setting. The children in these poems are young, innocent and unaware of the harsh realities of life. In a few of the songs, especially in The Chim...
The Force of Tradition Tradition is an act, an activity, a feeling, or a way of thinking that has been forced into existence by repetition; without a strong effort towards repetition tradition cannot exist. Tradition is not something that arrives free of creation; tradition must be molded and...
The simple rhymes and the regular rhythm stress the simple ideas that are implied, but "though many believe that Blake's poems are written in a simple language, no one can deny the presence of deep meaning" (Pakzadian and Moinzadeh 114 ). ...
