in or to whatever place or situation 63.barren: 贫瘠的,不毛的/ unable to produce offspring or fruit, unproductive or lacking in qualities that make it desirable or interesting 64.grief: 悲伤,悲痛 deep sorrow, especially that caused by someone's death 65.complicated: 复杂的,难懂的 consisting ...
hard, and whispering of death,no muck, no suck, no breath. You scorn my wormsome ways,streambeds, puddles, bays,ooze, nematodes, cnidaria,as though you contained no bacteria. But in a millennium or two,when they find mummified you,your face like a parchment scrollunchanged and unread in...
two legs bad’ both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. It was noticed that they were especially liable to break into ‘Four legs good, two legs
206. anabiosis- a return to life after apparent death207.amyloid- starchy208.amplivagant-stretching far having a great scope209. amoretto- a cherub or a spirit of love 210. amoret- love song 211. ament- a person who fails to develop mentally212. ambsace- bad luck or a low score213....
And another regrettable thing about deathis the ceasing of your own brand of magic,which took a whole life to develop and market —the quips, the witticisms, the slantadjusted to a few, those loved ones nearestthe lip of the stage, their soft faces blanchedin the footlight glow, their la...
O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of Death. O full of music! full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments! full of grain and trees. ... Walt Whitman Investigating...
We’ve covered “We Real Cool” before, both in our article onshort form poetryand our article onrepetition devices. So, here’s a different example of The Golden Shovel. Michael Kleber-Diggs’ poem “America is Loving Me to Death” is a Golden Shovel of the Pledge of Allegiance—and it...
After the death of his grandmother, Hughes went to live with family friends, James and Auntie Mary Reed, for two years. Later, Hughes lived again with his mother Carrie in Lincoln, Illinois. She had remarried when he was an adolescent. The family moved to the Fairfax neighborhood of Clevela...
Maybe the end is ego death, going back for a chat with Socrates,a lapse in the continuity and serving a crystal Mephistopheles,the repetition of stars and lights and not being able to get it right,you look for God but he’s not in sight and suddenly you’re on your knees. And maybe...
In my abovementioned blog, I brought up the subject of Roland Barthes’Death of the Authoras it relates to these ideas of instability and the locus of meaning-making in texts. For Barthes, the author was nothing, the reader everything; and Underwood’s analysis seems to make the same clai...