In the first poem of the volume, “Sailing to Byzantium”,8 appears the scarecrow image of an old man as “A tattered coat upon a stick” in “no country for old men”. Age belongs in another place, Byzantium,
Bill Shankly reckoned that 3 Scotsmen in a football team was the most you could have. Get four or more and instead of being a disciplined unit that sticks together at the core of your team, you would end up with any of the well-known Scottish divides creating cliques. East vs West, O...
A keen observer of a land where “[f]olks still/worship sticks,” Hild is beset by secret doubts. The real Hild was all packed up and ready to live with her sister near Paris, but she turned back at the last minute and established a hardscrabble monastery along the North Sea. Gibson ...
An epic poem. Annie Kitaeff Redwood BurlPhoto by Annie Kitaeff Shadows in the RedwoodsPhoto by Annie Kitaeff Being in the Redwoods, I became aware of the urgency of life, the enormous power of the life force, the precious nature of life, and the need to live in harmony with other ...
One only has to read Dorothea Mackellar’s epic poem, ‘My Country’, written in 1904 to learn about ‘A Sunburnt Country’ with it’s droughts and flooding rains. However, the poem that most sticks in my mind is Henry Lawson’s 1911 poem, ‘ A Bush Fire.’ ...
Our ancestors’ age-old struggles to find creative ways to clean up their nether regions should give us an appreciation of the Golden Age of Wiping that we are enjoying in 2020. We have left behind (no pun intended) sticks, leaves, stones, used newspapers and the Sears catalog. If the ...
enjoy sushis of any shape or make. I actually am not particular about what’s wrapped by the seaweed and rice, as long as the roll tastes good. But I sometimes surprise people I eat with by using my fingers and not chop sticks or fork to pick up the sushi and shove it into my ...
(praefatio 1,3)I should like it to be known that Danes of an older age, filled with a desire to echo the glory when notable braveries had been performed, alluded in the Roman manner to the splendour of their nobly wrought achievements with choice compositions of a poetical nature; not ...
form of their work. But with music, even electronic music, it’s hard not to be consistently reminded of the person in the work, the person whose voice you are hearing, whose hands are pushing on buttons or holding down strings or hitting things with sticks. Be aware of that as you ...
Men in white tee-shirts armed with sticks had been marauding in the streets of Yuen Long all day, threatening anyone who looked as if they might be a protester. When they appeared inside the station the MTR staff promptly called the police, who did not show up for half an hour. As ...