The title is French for “Portrait of a Woman”

One of E. E. Cummings’s many antiwar poems, “my sweet old etcetera” satirically contrasts the glorification of war on the home front with the actual life soldiers lead. As summarized by Rushworth M. Kidder in 1979:

[The soldier’s] “aunt lucy” is the newsmonger; his sister knits socks, shirts, and “fleaproof earwarmers”; his parents tout such abstractions as courage and loyalty; and all the while the soldier himself lies “in the deep mud” dreaming of “Your smile / eyes knees and of your Etcetera.” (Source: Modern American Poetry)

Here is where we find the 10 Commandments. They are not the only 10 rules in the Old Testament, rather they are 10 statements that summarize the 613 Commandments found in the Old Testament that provide the basic guidelines for righteous living

The Jewish Holiday Purim is derived from this story

This is a ghazal, a poetic form known for its complex and specific structure. Each couplet of the poem is connected by the same ending line, and the rhyme comes just before rather than at the end of each line. Ali compared each ghazal couplet to “a stone from a necklace,” which should continue to “shine in that vivid isolation”.

This is a description of the regulations of kashrut: Jewish dietary laws.

The Sacrifice of Issac.