On her blog, the author Amy Tan has mused about evolving salutations she has noticed in her inbox. Off-Day Musings: Bandwagoners- A Play In Two Acts. Richard Egarr demonstrates pianoforte 's elegance with music and musings at Clarice Smith Center. The mouthpiece or wind-pipe of a bagpipe. An inspiring power poetic inspiration: often spoken of and apostrophized by poets as a goddess.Īn opening in a fence through which a hare or other game is accustomed to pass. The Muses were intimately associated in legend and in art with Apollo, who, as the chief guardian and leader of their company, was called Musagetes. Their number appears in the Homeric poems not to be fixed later it seems to have been put at three, but afterward they are always spoken of as nine: Clio, the Muse of heroic exploits, or of history Euterpe, of Dionysiac music and the double flute Thalia, of gaiety, pastoral life, and comedy Melpomene, of song and harmony, and of tragedy Terpsichore, of choral dance and song Erato, of erotic poetry and the lyre: Polymnia or Polyhymnia, of the inspired and stately hymn Urania, of astronomical and other celestial phenomena and Calliope, the chief of the Muses, of poetic inspiration, of eloquence, and of heroic or epic poetry.
In Greek myth, one of the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who according to the earliest writers were goddesses of memory, then inspiring goddesses of song, and according to later ideas divinities presiding over the different kinds of poetry, and over the sciences and arts, while at the same time having as their especial province springs and limpid streams. The act of musing meditation reverie absent-mindedness contemplative thought. (see list under contemplate), cogitate, ruminate, brood. To ponder meditate reflect continuously and in silence be in a brown study.
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