Monday, May 31, 2010

Walt Whitman: May 31, 1819--March 26, 1892

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From "Song Of Myself," Stanza 32: This stanza incorporates the range of responses that I have toward Whitman's poetry: some...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

Something to think about

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Going To The Dogs My granddad, viewing earth's worn cogs, Said things were going to the dogs; His granddad in his house of logs, Said th...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Simon J. Ortiz: May 27. 1941--

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"Simon J. Ortiz (born on May 27, 1941 in Albuquerque, New Mexico is a Native American writer of the Acoma Pueblo tribe, and one of the...
Friday, May 21, 2010

Something to think about

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We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a differ...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Combination Plate 14

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I will be bringing up significant plot elements and episodes as well as revealing some of the endings. George Eliot, "The Lifted Ve...

Something to think about

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Something to think about: If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at leas...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Emily Dickinson: Dec. 10, 1830--May 15, 1886

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It is a tradition among haiku poets to write a death-song, one that offers their last reflection on life here just before they die. Emily ...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XXVI

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As usual, I'm using the first edition as the base for the discussion. First Edition: Quatrain XXVI Oh, come with old Khayyam, and ...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Something to think about

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true ...
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Gregory Benford: Sailing Bright Eternity, Galactic Center Book 6

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Warning: I will discuss important plot elements and the resolution of the conflict between the Naturals and the Mechs. Greg Benford's ...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Some Poetical Cats

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A short time ago, I came across a small book. It was Henry Beard's Poetry For Cats . No, it's not a book with poems about cats. ...
Monday, April 26, 2010

Something to think about

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The World Is Too Much With Us The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in ...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XXV

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This quatrain completes the 1st third of the First Edition of the translation by Edward FitzGerald. First Edition: Quatrain XXV Why, all th...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

Earth Day

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EARTH TEACHER Earth teach me stillness As the grasses are stilled with light. Earth teach me suffering As old stones suffer with mem...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus

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Warning: I will be discussing significant plot elements and the ending. David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus is probably one of those...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Something to think about

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Abraham Lincoln's Annual Message to Congress: 1862 The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Chaucer's The Tales of Canterbury--from the Prologue

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Many years ago in grad school, I had to take a course in Chaucer. I wasn't looking forward to this since I had always preferred works i...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Combination Plate 13

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Warning: I will be discussing significant plot elements and endings. Edith Wharton The Reef, a novel The Reef is one of Edith Wharton...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain XXIV

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First Edition: Quatrain XXIV Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after a To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Robert Frost: (3/26/1874--01/29/1963) For Once, Then, Something

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Today is Robert Frost's birthday, so I thought I would take a look at one of his poems. "For Once, Then, Something" is one of...
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