Monthly Archives: January 2022
The Poetry of Sara Teasdale as Read by Ghizela Rowe
I’ve mentioned Sara Teasdale’s simply worded poetry but before (internal link) but not at length. Like A.E. Housman (internal link), no Greek, Latin, or Great Literature is required to understand their poetry. Much tragedy in her life, own ended by … Continue reading
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Tagged Poetry, poets, sara teasdale, women poets
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Diseased. And the Instantly Ephemeral.
Special Note: Thanks to Scott M. for reaching out to me to express sympathy and concern. Diseased. And the Instantly Ephemeral. I haven’t written on how I feel these days since my last post on the subject. (internal link) My … Continue reading
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“How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!” by Edward Lear
Edward Lear wrote nonsense poetry before Lewis Carrol (internal link) was born. Carrol, and perhaps the entirety of the literate English people, tremendously enjoyed Lear’s writing and drawings in newspapers and otherwise. By otherwise I mean he was a professional … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward lear, Poems, Poetry
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A Few Good Lines From a Few Good Men
Thomas Guy Farley Testifies in Court on thomasfarleyblog.com LTJG Kaffee: Mr. Farley. Did you build the website thomasfarleyblog.com? Judge Randolph: You don’t have to answer that question! Farley: I’ll answer the question. You want answers? LTJG Kaffee: I think I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged a few good men, editing, revising, writing
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The Irrelevance of Writing Assessment Tests to Online Writing
Q: Why aren’t writing assessment tests relevant to online writing? A. Because it’s far easier and quicker to recast a sentence than to research a problem. Q. Can you give an example? A. Sure. Take the title of this post: … Continue reading
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Shelley (internal link) once again contemplates beauty and the mercurial and inconstant nature of same. Time flies. Beauty, too, too often, as that beautiful blonde woman who just appeared and then … Continue reading
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Tagged Mary Shelley., Poetry, Shelley
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American Gothic Updated
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Paudeen by William Butler Yeats
Paudeen was a not so kind word for a shopkeeper, someone below Yeats’ station in life. A class system in Yeats’ time sharply divided people of the British Empire, with the high too often and too quickly exasperated with the … Continue reading
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Tagged curlew, poem, Poetry, video, wb Yeats, yeats
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Cassandra by Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan was The New Yorker poetry reviewer for 37 years. She wrote a book detailing her struggles to support herself and her child in the New York literary world called What the Women Lived. I have not read it but I … Continue reading
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The Incompetence, Idiocy, and the Inhumanity of Tractor Supply Hardware
I’m angry. Ten days ago I burned down my eyes for almost an hour to fill out an online job application on a website that doesn’t work. It’s the job portal for Tractor Supply Hardware, of which I have been … Continue reading
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Tagged @tractorsupply, devalued, dignity, faceless corporations, ignorance, job applications misery, nazis, rejected, tractor supply, worthless
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