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Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
28.4.20

Quotation: On the Experience of Falling in Love

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. —  Elizabeth Barret Browning, British Poet, and Writer Frank Jirouch's 1928 bronze sculpture,...
11.11.18

Lesson Plan: Teaching the Industrial Revolution Using William Blake’s poem “London”

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I like to teach history through literature. Recently I taught a lesson to High School students on the Industrial Revolution using William...
20.3.18

"Rest at pale evening . . ." - Excerpt from Langston Hughes's "Dream Variations"

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Rest at pale evening . . . A tall slim tree . . . Night coming tenderly Black like me - from Dream Variations , Langston Hughes ...
19.3.18

"Rats!" by Robert Browning (excerpted from the Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1842)

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Do you love rats? Read a delightfully bombastic excerpt from Robert Browning's 1842 poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". Fronti...
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13.12.13

On Looking Back at My First Blog Post

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Portrait of an Articulated Skeleton on a Bentwood Chair Yes, this is confessional. Forgetting that what I post on a blog is read by peo...
23.12.12

Poem: Thrasymachus Blushing

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thrasymachus blushing blushing belies betrayal betrayal of the body  the body belied so says socrates not blushing but catching thra...
16.3.12

Quotation on How the Wise Understand

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a word to the wise is sufficient dictum sapienti sat est Attributed to Plautus , Roman dramatist and Terence , Roman poet PDF Co...
10.8.11

Prose Poem: "Cloister"

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image credit: Greig Roselli In the cloister, there is often a sign on the porter’s door that reads, behind this door no one is allowed. ...
24.7.11

Poem: A Monk Reads at Table

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image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art at table reading, our minds most likely a cacophony of invective, misery, and lower bac...
23.7.11

Poets House, Lower Manhattan

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Why go to Poets house? Poets House boasts 50,000 volumes of poetry in an open, eco-friendly environment that affords a view of the Huds...
21.7.11

Lance: A Fragment Poem

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Wrapped in a green T-shirt, I try to ollie —  Is that a name? Skateboards, he says. It’s a move, dad — Low riding jeans I want to dress ho...
20.7.11

Diagram of Two Sonnet Forms

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In this post, I present a diagram of two popular sonnet forms. Download full-size image for printing.
14.6.11

Poetry Repost: "I am what I am"

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By Jacques Prevert Tercerunquinto. I Am What I Am I am what I am I am made like that When I have a desire to laugh Yes, I laugh wi...
18.5.11

Why I Like Wanderers (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Love the Epic!)

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Love the Epic! On Loving the Greek Epic Form Odysseus slays the suitors (while Penelope and Tele...
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18.1.11

"The Red Wheelbarrow"; Or, A Poem About Poetry

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In this post, I write about my favorite William Carlos William's  poem  —  "The Red Wheelbarrow". "The Red Wheelbarrow&q...
17.1.11

This is Just to Say; Or, A Reflection on Desire

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William Carlos William's very short poem "This Is Just To Say" frustrated me on my first read. Is this a poem? These few words...
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25.12.10

Christmas Post: If Jesus were Albrecht Dürer

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Self-Portrait of Albrecht Dürer The twenty-fifth day of December is an odd time to commemorate an incarnation of a God? I agree with T....
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8.12.10

A Little Bit of Poetry: "Poem for a Trieb"

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In this post, I present a poem I wrote inspired by a night of Scrabble where I felt the tug and pull of friendships and a desire to break ...

Vocabulary Essay (Or, Short Brief): "On Bereft"

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A very short brief on the word "bereft". bereft (adj.) \buh-reft\ A state of loss, deprived. Often used with "of". ...
1.12.10

Lesson Plan: An Example of Teaching Poetic Tone in the Classroom (with William Blake's "London" and "Jerusalem")

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Class objective:  To continue the theme of Poetic tone by using examples from film and the poetry of William Blake. The following cla...