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Category Archives: Poetry
“Don’t Sound Like a Sonnet:” An Experiment in Form
Anyone who took an English class in high school or college has probably learned about iambic pentameter – you know, the fancy term for duh DUH duh DUH duh DUH duh DUH duh DUH – at least once. Even if the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Miscellaneous, Poetry
Tagged form, iambic pentameter, poetry, rhyme, sonnet
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Mirror, Mirror; Or, The Post in Which This Blog Lives Up To Its Name
What does a mirror do? What benefit can we earn by looking at something from a different perspective? What did the German say to the Englishman when they walked into the bar together? Ok, ok, I can’t answer all three … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Criticism, Poetry
Tagged Amoretti, art, Edmund Spenser, mirror, perspective, poetry, power, reflections, sonnet
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Shelf Reflections: The Year (and More!) in Review
On a chilly, rainy Friday morning back in October, I walked up to my bookshelf to find a book to read. I spent some time sorting through the spines until I began asking myself: How many of these books have … Continue reading
Wandering Among “Towery Cities” and “Branchy Towers”
The title of this post takes its cue from Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Duns Scotus’s Oxford,” a lovely little poem I read earlier today. The post will talk about the poem and what (I think) it means. But there’s more to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Criticism, Poetry
Tagged Gerard Manley Hopkins, interpretation, Oxford, poetry, reading, scholarship, sonnet
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The Object(s) of Poetry
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I’d have been lying! … Continue reading
And the 2014 Word Cup American Finalists Are…
Are you excited? Hooo boy, I am! There’s nothing I love more than soccer books and soccer (and food, that’s always good too), and thanks to a slow snow day at work I finally found the time to get my ring of … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Drama, Miscellaneous, Novels, Poetry, Prose, Sports
Tagged America, American literature, books, individuality, soccer, style, World Cup
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