Ubi sunt (lit. 'where are they') is a rhetorical question taken from the Latin phrase Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning 'Where are those who were...

Arcas has published scientific articles, essays, op-eds, and the books Ubi Sunt in 2022 and Who Are We Now? in 2023. He appears regularly at TED. Blaise...

Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death place the song in the ubi sunt tradition. In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political...

always been met with approval. J. R. R. Tolkien, who adopted the poem's ubi sunt passage (lines 92–96) into The Lord of the Rings for his Lament for the...

famous women in history and mythology, and a prominent example of the ubi sunt? genre. It is written in the fixed-form ballade format, and forms part...

Impermanence Memento mori Mono no aware Ozymandias Sic transit gloria mundi Ubi sunt Yorick All Things Must Pass, a song by George Harrison with a similar message...

Solastalgia Sturm und Drang Suffering Theory of mind Tikkun olam Transcendentals Ubi sunt World view "Weltschmerz | Romantic literary concept". Encyclopedia Britannica...

part of the lyrics as their school song. Ars longa, vita brevis Gaudy Ubi sunt For instance, the noun membrum (member) has the same double meaning in...

of the Horse-lords with the realm of Gondor, Tolkien adapted the short Ubi sunt ("Where are they?") passage of the Old English poem The Wanderer. "Thus...

Related terms with no direct translation in English: Han Lacrimae rerum Ubi sunt Mottainai Wabi-sabi Weltschmerz Sehnsucht Saudade Historical kana orthography:...

of works upon the subject of buildings and their stories of Bloomsbury. Ubi sunt, 2011. Editor with Rizzoli International Publications: A Picture History...

salience Sic transit gloria mundi Tempus fugit Terror management theory Ubi sunt Vanitas YOLO (aphorism) Campbell, Lorne. Van der Weyden. London: Chaucer...

Tacitus, Agricola, ch. 30. ubi sunt? where are they? Nostalgic theme of poems yearning for days gone by. From the line ubi sunt, qui ante nos fuerunt? ("Where...

role. Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi also employs the rhetorical device known as Ubi sunt (Latin, "where are... ?"), a common medieval literary refrain used "to...

They Lion" Epistrophe Epanalepsis Figures of speech involving repetition Ubi sunt Morris Eaves; Robert N. Essick; Joseph Viscomi (eds.). "Songs of Innocence...

dominated by an extensive catalog of how hundreds of writers and artists died. Ubi sunt Memento mori Greene, Richard L. (April 1933). "A Middle English "Timor...

Some commentators attempting to characterise the work have called it an ubi sunt ("where are they?") poem because of its meditations on transience. It can...

Tacitus, Agricola, ch. 30. ubi sunt? where are they? Nostalgic theme of poems yearning for days gone by. From the line ubi sunt, qui ante nos fuerunt? ("Where...

history. These examples are introduced by the rhetorical questions called ubi sunt (Where are they?) in stanzas 15-24: XVI The last part of the poem is devoted...

Synecdoche - Synaesthesia Tall tale - Theater - Theme - Transferred epithet Ubi sunt - Ultraist movement - Unanimism - Understatement - University Wits - Ut...

B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References ubi sunt underground art underground press understatement unities See classical...

unlike "The Wanderer" and other elegies, "The Ruin" does not employ the ubi sunt formula. Renoir and R.F. Leslie also note that while "The Wanderer" has...

ephemerality of all life, expressed in the literary rhetorical question of ubi sunt. Even as worldly a pope as Innocent III could write an essay "On the Misery...

"stationing". At the beginning of the third stanza he employs the dramatic Ubi sunt device associated with a sense of melancholy, and questions the personified...

000 copies) of the Rubáiyát to mark the 150th anniversary. Somerton Man Ubi sunt § Persian poetry Yohannan, John D. (1977). Persian Poetry in England and...

the wall of her wardrobe: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Semper ubi sub ubi is unintelligible as Latin, but translates word for word as 'always where...

Quae signa sunt qui memoriae prodiderint Antiocho rege Syriae superato M'. Acilium subtracta a populo Romano adportasse, atque ubi sunt posuisse. Etiam...

Frank G. Moore. Vol. 7. London, 1943. 13 vols. Harvard University Press, William Heinemann Ltd. "In tusco vico, ubi sunt homines qui ipsi sese vendidant"....

Tolkien's elegiac song of Rohan, based on The Wanderer's ubi sunt passage Lament of the Rohirrim Where now the horse and the rider?      Where is the horn...

crimina, so hat er uns erworben coelorum gaudia. Eia wären wir da! ∘∘∘ Ubi sunt gaudia nirgend mehr denn da! da die Engel singen nova cantica, und die...