I named my eldest son after a Keats poem and it may have paid off.
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My Eldest Son, Named after a Keats Sonnet
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Upon First reading Chapman's Homer", Darien Bates, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy Leave a comment
Misuse of Language Induces Evil in the Soul
Le Quin’s advice to a young writer: respect, do not abuse, language.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Task", Ursula K Le Guin, William Cowper Comments closed
Poets Talking Poetry over a Beer
In this R.S. Thomas poem, two poets engage in the never-ending discussion of whether poetry is more craft or inspiration.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Circus Animals Desertion", "Poetry for Supper", Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ion, Parliament of Fowls, Plato, R. S. Thomas, Squire's Tale, W. B. Yeats Comments closed
June Is Short and We Must Joy in It
Irish poet Ledwidge’s “June” is a carpé diem poem that takes on special meaning given that the author died in World War I.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to Autumn", carpé diem poetry, Francis Ledwidge, June, World War I Comments closed
Gods Speaks through the Imagination
Jesus’s parables are exercises in imagining the kingdom of heaven come to earth.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Imagination, John Milton, Parables, Paradise Lost, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, theology Comments closed
A Friendship Stronger Than Fear
As I spent a night in an emergency room, I thought of my wife, my mother, and this Piercy Ruth and Naomi poem.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ode to a Nightingale", "Book of Ruth and Naomi", "Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known", Book of Ruth, Marge Piercy, mothers and daughters-in-law, widows, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Dreaming of Travel during Covid
A very smart Covid poem circulating on social media at the moment references 11 poems, all about longing to travel.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "Lake Isle of Innisfree", "Sea Fever", "Green Eye of the Yellow God", "Mandalay", "Milford Haven", "Rolling English Road", "Skye Boat Song", "Upon First reading Chapman's Homer", A. E. Housman, COVID-19, Crown, G.K. Chesterton, J. Milton Hayes, John Masefield, Kenneth Grahame, Loveliest of Trees, Michael Drayton, Midsummer Night's Dream, Outlanders, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Henry Boulton, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, wind in the willows Comments closed
In “Crown,” Philip Gets Auden, Not Keats
“The Crown” makes productive use of poetry to move the action. In three Season #3 episodes, we encounter Kipling, Shakespeare, Keats & Auden.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mandalay", "Moon Landing", British royal family, Crown, Endymion, Richard II, Rudyard Kipling, W.H. Auden, William Shakespeare Comments closed