Below is the first version of a story I wrote on the spur of the moment for Apex Magazine. There was a call for submissions on the theme of crab-apples. Apex sent me a nice note, thanking me for the story, but turned it down. While I was waiting I thought to myself—This would ...
Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat to scratch a man to death! There is a very interesting line approximately halfway through this passage. It reads: “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.” With this line, Shakespeare is playing on the two meanings of the ...
as male. This was the 19th century, when the assumed pronoun for a poet washim. It’s no stretch at all to read the Him in this poem as Emily Dickinson, as Emily referring toherself. No mysterious “Master” or male lover need be invoked. She was, with a touch ...
where my dog waits for my arrival waving his fan-like tail in friendship. Ai, I'll not speak of sadness here on earth, of having lost a companion who was never servile. His friendship for me, like that of a porcupine withholding its authority, was the friendship of a star, aloof, wi...
lost his life while saving a dog from drowning He gave his life for one and all Every restless tossing passed Fell like warm rain on the arid patches of my imagination So much of hopeful promise centred there One of earth’s loveliest buds ...
Looks to be too young for -schooling, children; - (but who knows!) It could be something else! Whatever her world is -is not dog's, it varies -dog is tied, forcibly; -loves to live, be free. The owner is master -to the poor slaved pet -same as the animals -with circus ...
For all its bleakness, the poem ends on a note of redemption, with aSanskritrefrain, “Shantih shantih shantih,” translated in the footnotes by Eliot as “The peace which passeth understanding.” Although the refrain is taken fromHinduscripture, Eliot’s translation is anallusionto a passage...
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We as humans have a belief that blindness is a curse, meaing they can't do anything. How would you feel about a blind person, defending all odds? Daniel Kish is that person to not settle for less. In summary, life wasn't easy for him, but courage can beat society’s standard. ...
“burning puddles” were reassuring at a time when nothing felt right or good. He knew then that everything was not lost and that he’d be able to make it through his exile. In fact, but the en dog the poem, also due to the sun, he decides that it’s time for him “to go ...